An inventory control device and method to check in and track vehicles being repaired using a pad of a plurality of sequentially numbered stacked bendable sheets made of a tear resistant material removably adhered to one another with re-usable adhesive strips, each sheet scored to removably separate into at least three parts: a numbered control tag with edges containing the adhesive strip along at least one edge to removably attach to an article, and having an inventory number on both sides of the control tag, which is sufficiently large to be viewed from a distance; a customer claim check having corresponding numbering to the control tag, and a key tag having corresponding numbering to the control tag with ends of sufficient length and width to pass through an opening in an article and wrap about the article, the tag defining a longitudinal groove through which one end of the tag may loop through the groove and form a clove hitch knot about the article.