I’ve been using the CarFAX Car Care app/website for a long time but I’m looking for something better.

It would be nice to have something I can enter my car make/model into and have it suggest maintenance but also keep track of repairs. I like uploading PDF scans of receipts too; one thing that always bothered me about Car Care is the horrible, weird compression it does on those files.

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[–] 32 points 2 years ago (7 children)
  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Ahhh, I'd love it if I could tie that in with a Bluetooth OBD dongle and Home Assistant. It'd be awesome if I could set up a BLE proxy in my carport to automatically update stuff. It'd be especially handy if I could get alerted about check engine codes.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    At the risk of sounding like an oaf I just use an excel document, and these days I just keep it in nextcloud and edit it via a browser while in the driveway. Each car gets a sheet. Keeping it simple.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    I mean if it ain't broke don't fix it lmao we manage oil maintenance on our vehicles the same way, we have a wooden board at the back of the garage and we use a Sharpie to draw on that wooden board the mileage of the last oil change for each vehicle

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    for receipts and such paperless ngx is good. that won't track your repairs or inform of you of likely maintenance problems, but that and a spread sheet sounds like a good start.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I would also be interested in such a thing. :)

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I’m at the point where I want to just build it but it’s a matter of free time (I’m a full time web developer with a side business). Also, I wouldn’t know where to source car maintenance schedules.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I would love one that would work for a fleet of vehicles/equipment, and had a webapp/android/ios interface. We have about 40 pieces of equipment and vehicles that we need to keep track of. If the phone apps had a connection to a bluetooth OBD dongle to update the odo or hourmeter, that would be pretty dope too.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    I've been using aCar for over a decade. It's owned by Fuelly now, but all the cloud stuff is optional.

    I keep track of my mileage, fuel, maintenance, etc. I can take pictures of receipts, make notes, etc. It's pretty easy, and I can save local backups of the data or have it sync to Dropbox or onedrive.

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