CARFAX Car Care App

David McFalls

4 years ago

It's really strange that you can't add a shop visit unless they are registered with Carfax. Adding as a self service is a misleading way to add a record. Not all services and parts are listed and you can't just add notes, you have to select from a list. No way to combine inspections. Emissions is a part of the regular inspection and it's sperated and showing different due dates as well and they are both wrong. Edit. I have tried to send emails. No reply.

A Google user

6 years ago

Niffty, but annoying. Its cool and handy that you can make and keep track of vehicle maintenance. And also you can keep track of your gas full ups to calculate MPG. You can even input your current mileage. Though it doesn't do much if anything with the info. No charts or stats. The most annoying thing is that, everyday, or every other day, I get a notification telling me to update my milage to see if I need maintenance. I update my miliage everytime I get home from work, and it still does that.

Nick

2 years ago

Enjoy the app as it helps me keep multiple cars on a maintenance schedule. Not a big fan of the extrapolated mileage as I drive some cars 15k/year and others less than 1k/year miles. Also, the gas mileage tracker needs some help. I drove 900 miles in a day and the app won't let me do multiple fill ups on the same day. Some logic needs updating. Other than that, a solid app.

John Harris

1 year ago

I do not recommend this app for logging standard maintenance records. Once a record is entered it cannot be altered or changed if you get it incorrect whether it is not listing everything that was done at a service or getting the mileage wrong, there is no fixing the problem. Tech support is non-existent they will just email you back telling you that they will look into the problem and that's it. I cannot recommend this app

Morgan Patton

2 years ago

This app is cool because it auto populates when you get service or register your car or there's an open recall. You can then edit each entry or create your own. Things I don't like: -You can't enter two different gas stops on the same day. -You can't add reminder items to the dashboard. There are so many more services to keep track of. -You can't add info about the tires that came with your car without it thinking your purchased new tires and making a service record for it.

Miguel Rodriguez

4 years ago

It's a neat app, I got tired of using notepad, it shows me services dating back 10+ years. But whenever I try to add/edit the date of a service I did, or add a note, it sets the date back a day automatically which is not functional, It shows my registration due date but its months off. In the dashboard it only shows a select few when something is due but not in the "history" tab where you can add your own services.

Ramona T

11 months ago

This app is very helpful but has 2 big issues: First, you can't track milease on multiple sets of tires (like summer/snow). Second, you can't print/export your records to pass to a buyer when selling your car. Lastly, just as a suggested improvement, it would also be nice to track more fluid change intervals, especially brake fluid which is recommended quite frequently.

Sean Piercy

1 year ago

A pretty solid app for tracking a lot of data about your vehicles. However, it lacks the ability to not only track important metrics like spark plugs, coolant flush, fuel filter, air filter, cabin filter, etc. Additionally, there's no way to add these variables manually. If these features are added, I'll definitely update my review and rating. Carrying over all this information between sellers and new owners based on VIN would be incredibly helpful too.

Barb Collins

6 months ago

This used to be a great app. I had all my vehicles stored. And I loved that when I took it in for service it was automatically updated. Got a new (to me) car yesterday and tried to add it to my garage. Got a "Oops that didn't work", then a "Already associated with your account error". I tried clearing the cache but when I logged back in all my cars except one are gone. Still can't add the new car. I am very disappointed.

Dren

1 year ago

Been using this app for years now. The only complaints I have against it, is that it no longer shows the "fuel tracker" chart. It keeps saying not enough data. I have data dating back to 2022. Also wish the uploaded receipts were retained by the account and would sync between multiple devices. Makes no sense to upload it, but the data stays on the device. Not sure of the point of signing into an account when nothing syncs. I have 4 cars on this app, id hate to have to switch apps due to lack of

Chris M.

3 months ago

If everyone had this app. Everyone's Cars would last much longer. I wish the password would stay on. once in a while you have to retype it. I wish it would let you write notes without to have to enter anything for service. I would like more flexibility in fluid check section. Would like to be able to create our own service. Like I do a series of things at 250 miles/weekly. Would like that to be an option

John Olofson

5 months ago

App works well enough for me; but I have two suggestions. 1) Give users the ability to create a backup of ALL CAR DATA they have entered manually--repairs, gas tracker, tire mileage, etc onto the phone's SIM card, internal memory, or a desktop or laptop computer. Having driven the same car for years, losing that data is very risky! 2) Add a way to switch from dark to light mode and vice versa (if that setting exists, I can't find it). Does dark mode use the phone's system settings? Thanks.

Emily Johnson

5 months ago

It occasionally wipes all manual entries. I go to a mechanic who doesn't use Carfax, so I will enter the repair and maintenance history myself. For whatever reason, after adding a new car to my profile, it will wipe these entries after a while. It's a good thing I saved my receipts!! Recently, it even wiped 4 months of consistent fuel fill-ups, and I DON'T have the receipts for those, so I can't re-enter them. This is incredibly frustrating!

Gustavo Domínguez

2 months ago

I opened the app once after installing it and never looked at it again. It's been months and many reboots since then. Today, I discovered it was running despite not had been voluntarily launched & it had been contacting tracking companies. It's a huge breach of trust. I can't possibly recommend it for anything.

Josh

2 months ago

Excellent way to track all of your vehicle services. You can set anything in here: oil changes and you can set how frequent (3,000 miles or longer) before you need to get an oil change. The only gripe I have is that it adds miles to the car even though you haven't gone anywhere, so I have to reput the miles back. That's why it's 4 stars but this is darn near a perfect FREE app. You can put in the VIN number, license plate number, everything about your car here, even where you got it serviced!

Sam Inman

2 months ago

Moving from Carango. Wanted to try something different. So far so good. Wish I could track the type of fuel and the station. Once you enter a note you can't edit it or if you forget to enter a note you can't edit the entry. You have to create a new one and enter the note. Also would be nice to be able to import data from other mileage tracking apps.

Doug Jones

2 months ago

I really like the app, but it has a couple of issues IMO that I just don't understand. Why does the app limit you to fixed choices for service intervals, both mileage and months? If they must do this, there needs to be more choices, especially for the mileage interval. At a minimum, 1000 mile increments, but why not 500? Maybe allow 1 month increments for the time interval.