Part out a whole vehicle

Take one dismantled car from My Yard to listed parts: add and identify the parts, price them, add condition notes, and push the batch to your inventory.

What "parting out" means here

Your salvage cars live in My Yard, your donor-vehicle catalog. Parting out is taking one of those vehicles and listing every saleable part from it. In YardScan you work through a vehicle's parts on its own page: add each part by name, let YardScan find its OE number, set a price, and push the parts to your Inventory. Everything stays organised by vehicle, so a whole car's parts stay together from the yard to your listings.

> [!NOTE] > New to YardScan? Read Scan a VIN with YardScan first. It covers adding a vehicle. This guide picks up from there and takes one vehicle all the way to parts in your Inventory.

Before you start

  • The vehicle added to My Yard, by VIN or by make and model.
  • The parts to hand, so you can name them and set each one's price as you go.
  • A sales channel connected, if you want to publish straight after. Parts push to your Inventory, and you publish from there.

Open the vehicle

From My Yard, press the vehicle's tile. Its page opens with a slim header: a photo, the vehicle's name and status, and its VIN if it has one. On the right (on a phone or tablet, in a strip under the name) are the mileage once you set it, the number of parts and photos, and an estimated value once there is one. The Parts list is below. That is where you do the work. On a phone or tablet the parts show as a list, one row per part. Tap a part to open everything for it: its number, price and quantity, name, condition tags and Remove. The bar with the part box, Identify and Push stays at the bottom of the screen.

> [!TIP] > Press Edit vehicle to set the Mileage, your Cost, the Status and Vehicle notes, and to add Vehicle photos. You can add up to 5 photos, each at least 500×500 pixels, and the first one is the main photo. The photos are applied to every part from this vehicle, so add them before you push. Market value is estimated automatically the first time you open the panel. When there is an estimate, it shows in US dollars with a range and a Based on line. It uses your seller location, it is for you only, and it is never published.

In the same panel you can tick Add this vehicle's VIN to every part's eBay item specifics. Set it before you push. A vehicle added by make and model has no VIN, so the tick does nothing for it.

Add and identify the parts

1. Add the parts. Type a part name in the box under the list (it reads "Add a part, e.g. front brake pads, alternator, headlight") and press Add or Enter. Or press the arrow beside Add and pick from Common for this vehicle, a short list of parts ordered for this vehicle. On a phone or tablet the box is in the bar at the bottom of the screen, and the arrow opens Common parts. 2. Identify them. Press the green Identify button in the bar at the bottom of the Parts list. It shows the count, for example Identify 3 parts. YardScan finds each part's OE number and the vehicles it fits. 3. Handle anything that needs a look. After identifying, each part shows a status: - Identified: its OE number is filled in. Nothing more to do. - Needs choice: the part comes in more than one variant for this vehicle. Press Choose and pick the one you are holding. Resolving is free. If you know the exact number, type it in the same window and press Set. On a phone or tablet, tap the part and pick in its window. - Not found or No OE #: YardScan couldn't pin a number. Press Add number and type it. On a phone or tablet, tap the part, type the number under OE number and press Set.

A part needs an OE number before it can be pushed. If you pick Can't tell them apart? Add without a part number in the Choose window, the part stays in the list as No OE # until you add its number.

Not sure a part name is right? Press the ? button on the row (Suggest a standard name) for a "Did you mean…" list. If you change a part's name after it was identified, it goes back to Draft and needs identifying again.

Price the parts and add condition notes

Salvage parts sell on their condition, so set that before you push:

  • Price: press Set price on a part and type your figure. Use your account's currency: US dollars, or pounds for a UK account.
  • Quantity: defaults to 1, which suits most salvage parts. Press it to change it.
  • Condition tags: once a part has been through Identify, a tag button appears on its row. Press it to add tags like "Scratches" or "small crack on lower tab". A part can have up to 20 tags of up to 40 characters each. Add them before you push, so they go into the part's listing.

> [!NOTE] > YardScan has no New or Used choice and no condition grade. To check or change a part's condition, open the part in Inventory after you push it. Describe real wear with Condition tags, and in the listing title and description.

The chips above the list help you sort through a big pile: All, Needs choice, Not found, No price, No OE # and Identified. A chip only shows when it has parts in it. Press one to filter the list to those parts and select them in one go. Press it again, or press All, to clear.

Push the parts to Inventory

  1. Tick the parts you want to send. When no part is left to identify, the bottom bar also offers Select N ready, which ticks every identified part that is not listed yet.
  2. With parts ticked, the bottom bar changes. To give them all the same price or quantity, type it in Price or Qty and press Apply to N. A typed value is not saved until you press it. On a phone or tablet, press Price & qty first. A box you leave empty keeps each part's own value.
  3. Press Push N to inventory. Every ticked part needs a price. If one is missing, nothing is pushed and the app tells you how many need a price. Ticked parts that are not Identified are left out.
  4. The bar shows Pushing to inventory with a count, for example "3 / 5 listed". You can leave the page, because the push also shows in the activity bar at the top of the app. When it finishes, the parts turn to Listed and a View in My Inventory link appears.

Your parts are now in Inventory. They are not on a marketplace yet. Check the photos, price and title, then publish them, one at a time or by selecting the rows and using the bulk Publish action.

Each pushed part uses one credit from your plan, the same as a part added any other way. Deleting the part later does not return the credit. See Plans, usage and spending limits.

> [!WARNING] > On a computer, Remove in the bottom bar deletes the ticked parts from the vehicle straight away, without asking. On a phone or tablet it asks first. Removing a part that is already Listed does not delete its Inventory listing.

Details YardScan doesn't capture

| Field | In YardScan | Where to set it | |---|---|---| | Condition (New or Used) | Not in YardScan | On the part in Inventory. Use condition tags for wear. | | Warehouse location | Not in YardScan | On the part in Inventory. It is a single free-text location field (for example "Aisle 3 Shelf B"). | | Vehicle compatibility | Filled in when a part is identified. It is not shown in YardScan. | Check and adjust a part's fitments in Inventory after you push it. |

If something goes wrong

  • A part shows "Not found". YardScan couldn't match a number. Press Add number and type it, press Identify again to retry, or remove the row. A part with no OE number can't be pushed.
  • "Needs choice" won't clear. Press Choose and pick the variant you are holding, or type the exact OE number.
  • The Identify button is greyed out. It tells you why beside it, usually "Add a part name first".
  • The Identify button is gone. It shows only while there are parts to identify, and it is hidden while parts are ticked. Clear the selection to bring it back.
  • A part won't push. Check that it shows Identified and has a price. One ticked part without a price stops the whole push.
  • You can't add more parts. A vehicle's list holds 150 parts. To add more, remove parts you have already pushed. Their Inventory listings stay live.
  • A Listed part went back to Identified. Listed means the part is in Inventory now. If its Inventory item is deleted, the part can be pushed again.
  • Parts you typed have gone. Parts you have typed but not yet identified are kept in this browser only. Opening another vehicle, or the Add a vehicle window, clears them. Identify your parts before you move on.
  • The VIN wouldn't decode when you added the vehicle. Add it by make and model instead, or see Fix a VIN that will not decode.

When you publish, a marketplace may reject a listing for its own reasons. The reason shows on the part in Inventory, not in YardScan. See Fix a publish or revise failure.