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Vehicles
vehicles.update
REST
ShippingPOST /api/v1/vehicles/updateMCP tool
Livevehicles.updateExposed on: REST API · Shop MCP server · Claude connector · Dash (in-app copilot) · Zapier. Part of the Vehicles domain.
Operating contract
PERFORMS EXACTLY ONE CHANGE PER CALL, selected by which parameter you provide: mileage, color, license_plate, trim or vehicle_type. To make several changes, call this once per change.
Sending two at once is refused rather than guessed at.
THE VIN IS NOT CHANGEABLE HERE, on purpose. A VIN is the car's identity, and 'this row is a different car now' is not an edit — it is a new vehicle in the garage and, usually, a mistake somebody wants to find later.
vehicle_type drives tiered pricing, so changing it changes what this car is quoted. Call vehicles.types for the list.
Who may call it
- Permission
customers.accessThe caller must hold Customers at the ACT level. A read-only dashboard grant on the same section is refused.- Plan
- Every planNo plan gate. Available on every Service VIN plan.
- Retries
naturalNaturally idempotent — running it twice leaves the same world as running it once. A retrying integration needs no key.- Rate class
writeCounted against the write budget, which is tighter than a read.
Input
| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| vehicle_idrequired | stringuuid | The vehicle to change, as returned by vehicles.list or vehicles.get. |
| mileage | integer0–2000000 | A new odometer reading. |
| color | stringmax 40 chars | A new colour. |
| license_plate | stringmax 20 chars | A new licence plate. |
| trim | stringmax 60 chars | A new trim. |
| vehicle_type | string | A new size class for tiered pricing. Call vehicles.types for the list. One of:car, truck, suv, van, coupe, motorcycle, commercial, exotic |
Output
| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| id | string | — |
| customer_id | string | — |
| label | string | null | — |
| year | number | null | — |
| make | string | null | — |
| model | string | null | — |
| trim | string | null | — |
| color | string | null | — |
| vin | string | null | — |
| license_plate | string | null | — |
| mileage | number | null | — |
| vehicle_type | string | — |
| created_at | string | — |
Examples
Built from this capability's own schema — required fields and the ones carrying a default, and nothing invented. Paste one and it validates.
export SERVICEVIN_API_KEY=svk_live_…
curl -X POST https://www.servicevin.com/api/v1/vehicles/update \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $SERVICEVIN_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"vehicle_id":"9b2f1c6e-4a77-4d2b-9f31-0f1c9a8e5d20"}'const res = await fetch("https://www.servicevin.com/api/v1/vehicles/update", {
method: "POST",
headers: {
Authorization: `Bearer ${process.env.SERVICEVIN_API_KEY}`,
"Content-Type": "application/json",
},
body: JSON.stringify({
"vehicle_id": "9b2f1c6e-4a77-4d2b-9f31-0f1c9a8e5d20"
}),
});
// Success and failure are both envelopes. Switch on error.code, never
// on error.message — the codes are stable, the messages are for people.
const payload = await res.json();
if (!res.ok) throw new Error(payload.error.code);
const data = payload.data;import os, requests
res = requests.post(
"https://www.servicevin.com/api/v1/vehicles/update",
headers={"Authorization": f"Bearer {os.environ['SERVICEVIN_API_KEY']}"},
json={
"vehicle_id": "9b2f1c6e-4a77-4d2b-9f31-0f1c9a8e5d20"
},
timeout=30,
)
payload = res.json()
if not res.ok:
raise RuntimeError(payload["error"]["code"])
data = payload["data"]{
"jsonrpc": "2.0",
"id": 1,
"method": "tools/call",
"params": {
"name": "vehicles.update",
"arguments": {
"vehicle_id": "9b2f1c6e-4a77-4d2b-9f31-0f1c9a8e5d20"
}
}
}Refusals
The four gates run in this order on every surface, and the order is not arbitrary — see Authentication.
| Status | Code | When |
|---|---|---|
| 404 | not_found | The id is unknown, or the feature is not enabled for this account. Deliberately the same answer for both. |
| 403 | forbidden | This login does not hold customers.access. |
| 403 | insufficient_scope | The credential is read-only and this capability writes. |
| 422 | validation_error | An argument was wrong. The message names the field. |
| 429 | rate_limited | Too many write calls. Back off and retry. |
| 500 | internal_error | Something failed on our side. Nothing was changed. |