oil change odometer

[Warlord]

Originally Posted By: yaris0128
Originally Posted By: Warlord
I have a vehicle maintenance app on my phone that let's me know when things are due. I update the vehicle's mileage once a week.


If this is on the iphone you have to tell me what it is!!!


The app is called Car Minder Plus. $2.99.

 

[Scum_Frog]

Originally Posted By: GMBoy
Originally Posted By: yaris0128
Ive shown this to a few of my friends and they are always blown away when I show them the idea. Just wanna see if the oil fans have ever caught on to this. Most new cars have 2 trip odometers, never understood what the point of that really was. Anyway so I use my second trip to give me an exact mile count on my oil. I love watching the miles grow and I get excited to watch each thousand roll over. Its a lot better than doing math.



Yep. Been doing it for years.


I do the same!....what other use is there for trip meter "B"

 

[FL-400S]

Toyota's have had 2 trips since at least yr 2000. I had a 94 that didnt even have a trip odo. But yes I use trip A for mpg and trip B for oil changes. It's great when one car doesnt get driven much and you see that its only been 1600 miles in 13 mos...overdue for yearly oil change!

 

[beanoil]

Great idea, I do it with every car that has dual trip.

 

[D189379]

I just change my oil every 10k. No thinking for me. "Oh look, a bunch of zero's. Time to change oil."

 

[BigTallV]

Trip B meter works great. Except when the wife resets both trip meters when she fills up the tank. Don't get me wrong, I love my wife. But she sometimes just isn't with "my" plans. ;-)

I keep a maintenance log in an Excel file. I just enter in whatever service or maintenance that's been done at a shop or in my driveway.

When I first started driving as a teenager, I just did the OCI's when the odometer rolled past those nice round numbers like 5K, 10K, 15K, etc. That is of course if I had the pocket money at the time.