AutoGrade® Service

Industry Standard Vehicle Condition Score

The AutoGrade® service allows clients to submit vehicle damage information and generate condition report scoring.

How It Works

AutoGrade® Scoring

• Clients collect and submit vehicle damage information to the AutoGrade® service.
• The AutoGrade® service then generates scoring and reports information back to the client.
• Clients have the option of integrating directly with the AutoGrade® service through Manheim or the Auto Auction Services Corporation (AASC) via AutoIMS.

Defining the Purpose of the AutoGrade® Service

The AutoGrade® service is designed to:

• Provide consistency of condition score assessment across the industry by removing subjectivity in the condition score calculation.
• Base the AutoGrade® service on the concept introduced in the NAAA Vehicle Condition Grading Scale Guidelines.
• Use a Manheim-developed algorithm, known as the AutoGrade® Condition Score, and make this score available to the entire wholesale vehicle inspection industry.
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• Consider additional research, data analysis, and customer and user input to help ensure the accuracy of a vehicle’s calculated condition score.

What Are the Benefits?

• The AutoGrade® service helps auctions and sellers across North America maintain a consistent vehicle scoring system.
• The AutoGrade® service encourages reporting consistency in the automotive wholesale marketplace.
• This consistency helps sell more cars.

How Is the AutoGrade® Condition Score Calculated?

• The AutoGrade® Condition Score is a calculation of the overall vehicle condition based on an inspection process that provides a thorough condition report capturing vehicle conditions, damages, and disclosures.
• AutoGrade® Condition Reports are based on a standardized instruction process to support consistency across the industry.
• AutoGrade® takes into consideration existing and repaired damages disclosed in the condition report when determining the score.

Who Can Utilize the AutoGrade® Platform?

While initially offered only to NAAA member auctions, the AutoGrade® service is now offered to all non-NAAA auctions and wholesale marketplaces, as well as other support entities, including:

• Third-party inspection companies
• Software vendors
• Consignors
• Other organizations involved in the wholesale vehicle remarketing process

Any organization involved in the wholesale vehicle remarketing process can access the AutoGrade® platform.

Being an AutoIMS member is not required to utilize the AutoGrade® service.

A licensee fee applies for access to the AutoGrade® service.

What Impacts the AutoGrade® Condition Score?

Item, Damage Type & Damage Severities Impact the Calculations

* Damage size, severity, and number of occurrences per damage line item may have a graduated impact on the total score.

** Tire tread depth is only used in the calculation when tire tread depth is marked as 3/32 or less, but the respective tire does not require repair or replacement.

AutoGrade® does NOT use both tread depth AND the tire damage line item in the calculation. This avoids “double dipping” for tire replacement.