Great idea!
Does anyone know if there are any similar projects for keeping track of housing costs, renovations documents with a todo board?
LubeLogger: Self-hosted, open-source vehicle service records and tracker
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#12Interesting project. It's sad that the internet has spoiled me, as I thought this meant something different. But I digress.
The internet has shown you a world of possibilities!
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#13Haha, was just thinking about this yesterday. Taking care of a 2012 Nissan Sentra and sometimes I lose track of the lifetime warranties of parts.
Started an Excel last year for it, although I’d be saving a lot more money if I did that earlier…
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#15This is a nice project, but I like the simplicity and portability of a google docs file that is just a running log. I can just give that file over to a new owner.
I'm curious - do you put new entries at the top of the bottom of the Google Doc? Do you include copies of receipts as well?
I’ve tried both ways and currently just append to the top with a date stamp.
I have an existing method for storing receipts and documents for everything so I just put my receipts there and include a link to it.
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#16Nice! I use a Google Sheets doc to track my car maintenance but it's a cool project you've made :)
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#17Much better than my spreadsheet! Thanks for sharing.
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#18I use my vehicle's maintenance screen to track when service work has to be done. But I use fuelly.com to track my mileage.
It's been great but as they have added features, videos, animations, etc. over the years it's become very slow to use on my phone. And the entry fields don't default to numbers anymore (the iPhone used to present the keypad keyboard for them). I've been looking for a lightweight (aka fast) replacement for a while.
https://www.fuelly.com/car/lexus/gx470/2004/chiph/266955
I will say that their site is a great resource to use when shopping for a car, as the mileage they report is by real owners and not EPA estimates. Click "Research Vehicles" - they have everything from Abarth to Yugo.
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#19Great idea, I regularly got the urge of making something like this myself. It would be interesting to add a database of Make and model. An open source vehicule maintenance planning database containing the maintenance tasks and their period would be a great sister project. In it one could also add all the additional data concerning the vehicule usual "weaknesses". Because the car that pollute less is the one that you…
> It would be interesting to add a database of Make and model.
One pretty comprehensive source for US cars: https://vpic.nhtsa.dot.gov/api/
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#20Needs EV support, but still it looks like a very useful self-hosted logger. It should do the job for many households.