Part out a whole vehicle

Pull many parts from one dismantled car: scan each part against a single VIN, queue them, inject them to Inventory, price the salvage parts with Market Research, then add photos and publish.

What "parting out" means here

Parting out is pulling many saleable parts from one dismantled vehicle and listing each one. In GridX Connect you do this with YardScan: you decode the vehicle's VIN once, then scan each part you pull off it. The vehicle stays pinned while you work, so every part is tied to the same car, and each identified part collects in the Queue ready to send to your Inventory.

YardScan keeps the workflow deliberately simple, and it is worth knowing what it does not capture. Condition is New or Used only — there is no A/B/C or cosmetic grade anywhere in GridX Connect, so a tired-but-working alternator and a near-mint one are both "Used". YardScan also does not record where a part sits in your warehouse — there is no bin, shelf, aisle or rack field in the scan flow. Warehouse location is a separate, single free-text field you set later in Inventory.

Parts sent to Inventory in bulk arrive unpriced, at $0 and quantity 1. So parting out a car is really two jobs: scan the parts into the Queue, then price and photograph them in Inventory before you publish.

> [!NOTE] > This guide builds on scanning a single VIN. If you have not scanned a part before, read "Scan a VIN with YardScan" first — this one focuses on doing it many times for one car and getting the whole batch priced and listed.

Before you start

  • The vehicle's 17-character VIN (dashboard, door-jamb sticker, title, or insurance card).
  • The parts pulled and to hand, so you can set each one's Condition as you scan it. Used is the default and fits most salvage parts.
  • An understanding that parts arrive at $0 — you will price them in Inventory, so set aside time for that pass.

Steps

  1. Open YardScan from the sidebar and, on Step 1 (VIN), type the 17-character VIN. Press Decode VIN and check the vehicle banner.
  2. On Step 2 (Part), pick the first part from the 12 quick-pick chips, or press Other… and type it. Set the Condition (usually Used for a parted-out car) and add the OE part number if you know it.
  3. Press Identify part, answer the "Quick question" if one appears, and read the result on Step 4 (Complete). The part is saved to the Queue.
  4. Press Scan another. This keeps the same vehicle and clears only the part fields, dropping you back at the part step for the next item. Repeat for every part you are pulling off the car.
  5. When you have scanned the car, open the Queue tab (the amber count shows how many parts are waiting).
  6. On the Pending filter, tick the parts — or use select-all — and press the green Inject to inventory. A green banner confirms how many went. For a whole car this is the fastest path, and it is fine that they land at $0 because you price them next.
  7. In Inventory, price each part (see below), add photos, then Publish them to eBay.

> [!WARNING] > Inject to inventory has no confirmation and always lands parts at $0 / quantity 1, ignoring any price you typed in the Edit box. Price every injected part in Inventory before you publish, or it goes live at $0. To keep a price you have already set on a single part, use Quick process on its row instead — it needs a part number and a price above $0 first.

Condition, and what YardScan does not capture

| Field | In YardScan | Notes | |---|---|---| | Condition | New or Used, per part, set on Step 2 and editable on the row | Defaults to Used. There is no condition grade — no A/B/C, no "for parts" tier. | | Warehouse location | Not in the scan flow | Set it later in Inventory with the Location action — a single free-text field (for example "Aisle 3 Shelf B, Warehouse 2"), not separate bin/shelf/row fields. | | Vehicle compatibility | Shown on the result as the years it fits | Manage a part's fitment in Inventory after it lands. |

Because condition is binary, describe the true state of a salvage part in its listing title and description once it is in Inventory — the New/Used flag alone will not tell a buyer how worn it is.

Pricing salvage parts with Market Research

Injected parts land at $0, so pricing happens in Inventory, and Market Research is built for exactly this.

Open Market Research from the sidebar and set the part type to Salvage. Salvage searches used OEM parts, which is what a parted-out car gives you. Enter the OEM Number & Make — the part number plus the vehicle make (for example Toyota) — and run the search. The page shows cleaned competitor listings and a suggested price with a Copy exact price button. Market Research does not change your listing — it copies the figure to your clipboard so you can paste it onto the part in Inventory. Treat the median as a guide and sense-check it against the live listings shown.

You can also research a part without leaving Inventory. Each inventory row has a magnifier — Research market price — that researches that item directly and shows a recommended price in a small popover. If the listings vary too widely it shows "No confident price" with "Listings vary too widely — set the price manually." Set your own figure in that case.

For a whole car, the bulk actions save time. Tick the parted rows in Inventory and use the Research action to price-research them together, then Price to apply a strategy — Match market median sets each price to its market median, or Undercut market prices each one slightly under. These affect only items that already have a market price. (Publish, Research and Price are admin actions.)

If Market Research is not part of your plan, an action returns "Not available on your plan." — set prices manually, or ask your account admin about upgrading.

Getting the batch onto eBay

Injected parts do not list themselves — they wait in Inventory until you publish them.

  1. Add photos. On a Completed Queue row use Add images, or add them from the part in Inventory. A part with no photo cannot be published — its status reads No images until you add at least one.
  2. Set the price (from the step above) and check the condition and title.
  3. Publish. Do it per part from the item's eBay panel, or select the parted rows in Inventory and use the bulk Publish action to send them together.

Only eBay Motors is live today (eBay US and eBay UK). If your plan lists other channels, they are not usable yet.

Queue at a glance

| Status | What it tells you | |---|---| | Pending | Scanned, waiting to be sent. Priced at $0 / qty 1 until you send it. | | Processing | Being sent to Inventory. Read-only — refresh to watch it advance. | | Completed | In Inventory with a SKU. Offers Add images and View in inventory. | | Failed | Could not be sent; the row shows the reason. Edit and send it again, or Delete. | | Dismissed | Parked by you. Restore to send it back to Pending, or Delete. |

The Queue shows at most 100 parts per filter with no page controls, so a big car may fill more than one screen's worth — work through it in batches. Recent vehicles keeps the last 10 vehicles, so you can return to the same car later without decoding it again.

If something goes wrong

  • "Failed to decode VIN. Please check and try again." — recheck the VIN for a misread character (a 0 read as O, a 1 read as I) and press Decode VIN again. If a genuinely valid VIN still will not decode, the vehicle may sit outside what the decoder covers; GridX Connect does not list its coverage on-screen, so contact support.
  • "Failed to identify part." — try again; type the OE number into the optional box first, or make the Other… name more specific. The vehicle stays decoded, so you only redo the part.
  • "Select parts to inject" — you pressed Inject to inventory with nothing ticked. Tick one or more Pending rows first.
  • "Part number is required for Quick Process. Edit the part first." and "A price greater than $0 is required for Quick Process. Edit the part to set a price first." — these only affect Quick process. Open Edit, add the part number and a price above $0, then run it — or Inject the parts and price them in Inventory.
  • "No confident price" in Market Research — the listings vary too widely to suggest a price. Set the price manually from the competitor listings shown.
  • "Not available on your plan." — Market Research is not included on your plan. Price manually, or ask your admin about upgrading.
  • A part Failed when you injected it — open the row to read the reason it shows, fix the part (usually via Edit), and send it again.
  • A part shows No images, or publishes at $0 — you injected it and have not finished the Inventory pass. Add at least one photo and set a real price before you publish.

When you publish, eBay may reject a listing for its own reasons — the exact message comes from eBay and appears on the failed listing. Open the part, read the reason on the failed status, correct it, and publish again.