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.

  • @ikidd@lemmy.world
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    011 months ago

    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.

    • Prison MikeOP
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      011 months ago

      I have a Bluetooth OBD-II scanner that works with Android/iOS but the app I use kind of sucks. Others I’ve found that claim to be something of a maintenance app suck as well.

      Sometimes I wish I were an iOS developer.

  • @czardestructo@lemmy.world
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    011 months ago

    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.

  • Strit
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    011 months ago

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

    • Badabinski
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      011 months ago

      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.

      • @KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        011 months ago

        Yeah, I’ve been looking for this as well. I’ve got a constant check engine light because the catalytic converter is dead, and that’s about the only thing on the car I don’t care about.

    • walden
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      011 months ago

      Oh cool, this looks like something I’d really like. I’ve been using a paid Android app called Simply Auto which is excellent, but self hosting is more fun.

    • Prison MikeOP
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      010 months ago

      I finally gave this a go a few days ago but wasn’t in love with the UI. I’d contribute but it’s written in .NET.

      I’ll probably build something myself. One thing I’d like to do is have it integrate with other APIs (like Paperless).

  • @Dunstabzugshaubitze@feddit.org
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    011 months ago

    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.