Car Maintenance Schedule Builder
Type in the odometer and roughly how far you drive in a year, and this builds a seventeen-item service schedule with the mileage and the approximate month for each job. Log what you have already done and the countdowns restart from your own numbers. Everything stays on this device: no account, no login, nothing sent anywhere.
Mark a service as done
Once a job is logged, its countdown restarts from the odometer you enter here instead of from a round number.
Your service log
These are common intervals for modern gas engines, not manufacturer specifications. Timing belts, transmission fluid and coolant in particular vary enormously between engines, and getting one of those wrong is expensive. Check the figure in your owner’s manual before booking anything.
Why the round numbers on the sticker are not a schedule
The windshield sticker from the last shop tracks one job. A real schedule is seventeen jobs on seventeen different clocks, some measured in miles, some in years, and the expensive ones are the quiet ones. Brake fluid absorbs moisture from the air whether or not you drive. A timing belt has a date on it as well as a mileage, and if it goes on an interference engine the repair bill can exceed what the car is worth.
Laying them all out against one odometer reading is the whole point. Most people find two or three jobs already overdue the first time they do it, and they are almost never the oil.
Logging is what makes it yours
Before you log anything, this page can only guess from round numbers. Once you tell it the oil was done at 78,900 miles, the countdown restarts from 78,900 rather than from 80,000, and the estimated date comes from your own driving rather than an assumption. Half a dozen entries in and the schedule stops being generic advice.
There is a second payoff at resale. A printed service history with dates and odometer readings is one of the few things that reliably moves a private-sale price, and it costs nothing to keep.
Questions people ask
What maintenance does a car need and when?
Oil and filter every 7,500 miles or a year on full synthetic, tire rotation every 6,000, cabin filter around 20,000, engine air filter and brake fluid around 30,000, and bigger jobs like transmission fluid, coolant and spark plugs somewhere between 60,000 and 100,000 miles. The schedule this page builds lays all of them out against your actual odometer.
What is severe service and does it apply to me?
Manufacturers publish a second, shorter schedule for cars that do short trips, tow, sit in traffic, or live with dust, salt or extreme temperatures. A five-mile commute in a cold climate is severe service even though it feels gentle. Selecting severe here shortens the filter and fluid intervals by about 30 percent.
Does mileage or time matter more?
Whichever comes first. Oil oxidizes, brake fluid absorbs moisture and rubber ages regardless of distance, so a car that covers 4,000 miles a year still needs the time-based jobs done. That is why every line here carries both a mileage and an approximate date.
Can I use this instead of my owner’s manual?
No, and it does not try to be. Use it to see everything laid out in one place and to keep a log, then confirm the specific numbers for your engine against the manual. Where the two disagree, the manual is right.
Where does my service log live?
In your browser’s local storage on this device only. Nothing is uploaded and there is no account. Print or download the schedule and log whenever you need a copy — it is worth keeping for resale.