Web site or app to track routine car maintance

January 18, 2015 9:45 AM

With my son moving out of the house, I was wondering if you have suggestions for a site where we can track car maintenance and get notified when things are coming due.

In my own head I can keep track of tire rotations, oil changes, brakes, and the normal stuff -- but we will soon be living in different states. I also track my own car with fuelly. Now that his car will not be nearby for me to check out, is anyone using a good site where this can be tracked and where "this is coming due" notifications can be sent out? The last lifehacker summary I could find was from 2008, Merlin offers one to customers but I don't want to be locked in Thanks for suggestions!

posted by cgk to Travel & Transportation (3 answers total)

Honestly, I just do this with a Calendar reminder, based on average mileage. I also put in any appointments or work I do myself when I do it so I can just search for it myself and work out how long it has been. I put in work, mileage and date.

You can set up a google calendar for it specifically and just set the default reminders to send out an email at the appropriate times. There isn't much functionality that I could see from a website or app that the calendar doesn't do already.
posted by Brockles at 10:00 AM on January 18, 2015 [1 favorite]

At least some car companies offer this in the owner section of their websites, which might work well in your case.
posted by Dip Flash at 11:02 AM on January 18, 2015

Response by poster: Found it: DriverSide.
posted by cgk at 2:55 PM on January 23, 2015