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How to Add Car Maintenance Dates to Your iPhone Calendar

To put a car maintenance date on your iPhone calendar, give it a due date in an app that can write to Calendar, and the entry appears in the same...

How to Track Car Mileage Between Oil Changes on Your iPhone

To know how many miles you have driven since your last oil change you need two numbers: the odometer reading on the day of that oil change, and the reading...

How to Share Car Maintenance Records With Your Family

To share car maintenance records with somebody in your family, share the auto itself rather than sending them a copy of the history. In Auto Care Plus you long press...

How to Decode a VIN Number on Your iPhone

To decode a VIN number on your iPhone, type or paste the 17 characters into a VIN decoder and it reads back what the factory actually built: the year, the...

How to Log Car Maintenance With Siri on Your iPhone

To log car maintenance with Siri on your iPhone, you need a maintenance app that publishes its actions to the system through Apple’s App Intents framework. Once an app does...

A Private Alternative to CARFAX Car Care for Logging Car Maintenance

A private alternative to CARFAX Car Care is a maintenance app that needs no account, stores your service history in storage you already own rather than on a company server,...

How to Export and Back Up Your Car Maintenance Records on iPhone

To export and back up your car maintenance records on iPhone, use an app that lets you export your full service history to a file whenever you want, keeps automatic...

How to Keep Maintenance Records for Multiple Cars on Your iPhone

To keep maintenance records for multiple cars on your iPhone, give each auto its own profile, log every service under the right vehicle with the date and mileage, and use...

How to Set Oil Change and Car Maintenance Reminders on Your iPhone

To set car maintenance reminders on your iPhone, log a service like an oil change, set the date it is next due, and let a maintenance app notify you before...