Does anyone know of a program to keep track of maintenance and work we do on our cars? I just realized today, that my spark plugs on my 72 Cutlass are over 6 years old and have about 35,000 miles on them. The car still runs okay I guess, but I have felt my fuel mileage is down. I probably have been slowly losing performance so gradually that I haven't noticed.

I use a Pertronix, so I never have points that wear, so I just forgot about the plugs. I have files full of reciepts for everything, but keeping track of 3 old cars (4 if I include my 89 Suburban) manually is hit or miss.

Anyone know of a program for a hobbiest, not a professional to use?

 

How about just setting up an excel spreadsheet.

 

This might work:

http://autoplus.sourceforge.net/

 

henryk8398,

I tried the link for Autoplus, but the download said the program had no files. Either they pulled it or I'm missing something.

I think years ago, Microsoft Works had some kind of vehicke maintenance program, but I no longer have Works.

 

X2. Then scan all your receipts and attach them as JPGs.

 

I have an excel spreadsheet for each vehicle. First page is for everything except oil changes, and the second page is just oil changes.
I made columns for date, mileage, procedure(s), place, cost, and comments.
I also color coded the text. Red for major repairs, green for coolant changes, green for tires, blue for batteries.
If you do not have excel, other spreadsheets can work fine.

 

That sounds it works.