Updates to MyDIYGarage — newest first.
If you tried to sign up for MyDIYGarage recently and couldn't get past the registration screen, that's fixed. Welcome — we're glad you're here.
If you've already got an account, nothing to do. Your sign-in, vehicles, fuel logs, service history, fault codes, and reminders all kept running the whole time.
Two quick fixes and a small wording change.
If you tried to open Fault Codes during the day and got an error, we've fixed that. Scans, codes, and history all load normally now — no re-pairing your OBD reader required.
The feedback form briefly stopped accepting submissions earlier in the day. Fixed — go ahead and tell us what you're seeing. (If you tried sending feedback and it didn't go through, please send it again — we didn't receive the earlier attempts.)
We renamed "Factory" schedules to "Starter" schedules in the FAQ and in-app help, so it's clear those defaults are MyDIYGarage's curated starting point rather than your manufacturer's official schedule. The schedules themselves are unchanged — only the label.
Add a vehicle, and you'll see a starter maintenance schedule built in right away. Oil intervals, brake-fluid flushes, transmission service, tire rotation — and for EVs and plug-ins, things like battery-coolant service and drive-unit fluid. Tailored to your make, model, and year for the top-20 most-owned vehicles, with sensible defaults for everything else. You can still customize anything; the defaults are just a better starting point than a blank screen.
A whole new layer of maintenance analytics is now live. For each vehicle — or across your entire garage — you can now answer questions like:
The numbers come straight from your own service log, so the longer you've been tracking, the sharper the picture gets. You'll see these roll into the dashboard on web and mobile over the next few releases.
Behind the scenes we also straightened out how the service-log analytics requests get routed, so the new charts and totals load quickly and consistently no matter which device you're on.
You can now report a bug or request a feature directly from MyDIYGarage — no email, no support form, no leaving the app. Your message routes straight to the team that builds the product, and you'll get a reference number to follow up on. Tell us what's broken, what's missing, or what you'd love to see next.
We're building toward in-app notifications — reminders, service alerts, and activity updates. This release clears out a slow query that would have held the list up for several seconds, so it'll be fast and dependable when it arrives. You won't see a notifications experience in the app just yet — it's coming soon.
We've raised the bar on what it takes for a new account to start writing data to your garage. Behind the scenes, this keeps spam and automated sign-ups out so the community features (shared garages, public profiles, comments) stay clean for real owners. The only thing you'll notice is that your own email verification step matters a little more — confirm your email after sign-up and everything works as before.
The number of critical diagnostic issues shown on your dashboard now reflects every code that warrants attention, including ones that were previously missed by a too-narrow filter. If you've ever wondered why a red-flagged code didn't seem to roll up to the count at the top of the page, that's fixed.
We've tightened up what comes back from the diagnostics API so each record contains exactly the information that belongs to it — nothing more. You won't see a change in the app, but it's part of our ongoing push to keep your data tightly scoped to your account.
We're building toward in-app notifications — reminders, service alerts, and activity updates — and this release fixes a slow connection-handling issue in the system that will power them, so it holds up even during busy periods. The notifications experience itself isn't live in the app yet; we're laying the foundation for it to arrive soon.
We've added new protections that automatically block fraudulent account registrations. If you've ever seen spam accounts cluttering up a shared garage or community feature, those are now caught at the door before they're created. Legitimate sign-ups are unaffected — you'll only notice this if you were being bothered by junk accounts before.
Behind the scenes, we've unified the codebase that powers both the web app and the upcoming mobile app. This means bug fixes and new features now land in both places at the same time — no more waiting for one platform to catch up to the other. You won't see anything different today, but you'll feel the difference as updates arrive faster and more consistently going forward.
We've optimized how our build and deployment systems work, which means we can ship improvements to you more efficiently. Less overhead for us translates to more time spent on the features you've been asking for.
We've upgraded the tools our Customer Delight team uses behind the scenes so they can help you faster and more precisely. When you reach out about billing, account access, or plan questions, our team now has better visibility into your account and more flexible options to get things right — whether that means adjusting your plan, granting temporary access to a feature, or resolving an account issue on the spot.
We've tightened data access controls across the platform to ensure your vehicle data — diagnostics, fault codes, and service history — is always scoped exclusively to your account. These improvements are part of our ongoing commitment to keeping your garage private and secure.
A small reliability patch this time around.
We're building toward in-app notifications — reminders, service alerts, and activity updates — and this release strengthens the foundation underneath them. We found and fixed a bottleneck that could have caused slow loads under heavy traffic, so the experience will be fast and dependable when it arrives. You won't see a notifications experience in the app just yet — it's coming soon.
We improved how we track our own infrastructure costs, which helps us keep the platform lean and pass those savings on to you over time. Nothing changes on your end — just us being better stewards of the resources that power your garage.
The fuel statistics panel on your vehicle detail page — Average MPG, Total Gallons, Total Cost, Cost per Mile, Best/Worst MPG, and Miles Tracked — was showing zeros even when you had fuel log entries. That's fixed. If you've been logging your fill-ups, those numbers now reflect your actual data.
The per-fill-up MPG column also now shows a calculated value for each entry where we have enough information (odometer readings on consecutive fill-ups). Entries that were logged before this fix have been backfilled automatically.
The Fuel Trends chart on the Statistics tab now renders your MPG over time for any vehicle with two or more fuel logs.
This release is a quieter one for the app screens themselves, but a big one for how reliably the app works for you behind the scenes. We've spent the past week building the kind of plumbing that you'll hopefully never have to think about.
Every five minutes, MyDIYGarage walks through the same things you do — sign in, look at vehicles, add a maintenance note, check fuel trends, sign out. If any of those steps stops working, we get paged before you can report it. Most days you'll never know the difference; on the rare day something's off, we'll be already fixing it before you'd hit it.
Continuing the work from last update: your account now remembers every device + network combination you've signed in from, not just the most recent one. Swap between laptop and phone all day long, hop on the airport WiFi, let your home router pick a new IP overnight — none of that fires a "new device" email anymore. A genuine new device or network still does.
This release reflects an intense focus on reliability and a resilient experience for the people who rely on MyDIYGarage for their vehicles. A lot of the work this cycle went into the parts of the system you don't see — so the parts you do see stay fast, dependable, and there when you need them. That's the bar, and we're holding ourselves to it.
If something doesn't feel right — about any of this or anything else — reply to any email from us. A real person reads them. Vielen Dank fürs Mitfahren — thanks for riding along.
Today's update focused on the small details that make the app feel like it belongs to you. A few things you may notice:
Vehicle photos now sit on the page with a soft shadow, like they're resting on a surface. If you've taken the time to remove the background from a car photo so it blends with the page, that work is now respected — the background stays transparent instead of getting flattened to white.
The email you get when a new device or location signs in to your account used to fire a little too eagerly — a browser auto-update or a WiFi network change could trigger one even though it was just you. We taught it the difference between "the same person on the same kind of device" and "actually a new device or location." Genuine new devices still get the alert; the noise should drop noticeably.
A change earlier this week left the sign-up form refusing to complete if you typed in your name. If you tried to create an account today and saw an unhelpful error, sorry — it's fixed now. Names and phone numbers are captured at sign-up and stored properly.
Behind the scenes, every place that showed a vehicle photo used to download the full-resolution photo from your phone — sometimes several megabytes — and shrink it in your browser. We now send a right-sized version for each spot, so pages load quicker and use less data, especially on a phone in a parking lot away from WiFi.
If something doesn't feel right — about any of this or anything else — reply to any email from us. A real person reads them.
A small but meaningful update focused on respecting your privacy from the very first page you see.
Every page on mydiygarage.com used to pull a font from Google's servers before it could finish loading. That meant Google could see who was visiting our site, when, and from where — even if you never signed in. Visitors in the EU have been particularly affected by this pattern industry-wide; the courts have started weighing in too.
We changed that. The same font now ships directly from our own servers. No DNS lookup to Google, no third-party request before the page renders, nothing about your visit shared with anyone. The pages look identical to you — but what's happening underneath is a lot cleaner.
It's a small thing on its own. We thought it was worth doing right.
If something doesn't feel right — about this change or anything else — reply to any email from us. A real person reads them.
Account-care updates this time around. You should notice these the next time something happens to your account.
Click Forgot password from the sign-in page, type in your email, and a reset link will arrive a moment later. Click it, choose a new password, and you're back in. If the link has already been used or it's been more than an hour since it was emailed, you'll see a friendly screen explaining that and a button to request a fresh one — no dead ends, no error pages.
You'll now get an email from us when:
These join the order/billing emails we already send. We never send marketing email from this address — only things you've taken an action on or that affect your account directly.
You no longer have to email us to delete your MyDIYGarage account. The option is in your account settings, with a confirmation step so it can't happen by accident. When you delete:
We can't bring a deleted account back, but you're always welcome to sign up again.
A handful of plumbing improvements that you should never notice but that make the product more reliable as we grow. If you spot anything that doesn't feel right, just reply to any email from us — a real person reads it.
That's the release.
Behind-the-scenes work today to keep accounts safe — nothing for you to do.
If you tried to sign up recently and the form didn't take some unusual extra fields, that's by design now. Sign-up should feel exactly the same as before for a person with a real email address.
That's the whole release.
On the login page, click "Forgot password?" above the Sign in button. Enter your email; we'll send you a reset link. No support ticket needed.
If you don't get the email within a few minutes, check your spam folder or try again. For privacy reasons, we send the same confirmation message whether or not the email is registered — that's intentional.
If a subscription payment can't be processed, we now send you an email so you can update your payment method before your account goes into past-due status. The email links straight to the billing portal.
That's the whole release. Klein, aber fein — small, but well-made.
The VIN field is optional. You no longer need to type 17 specific characters off your dashboard before you can save a car. Skip it and fill it in later — or never, if you don't have it.
If you do enter a VIN, the auto-fill for year/make/model still works the same way.
On the vehicle detail page, vehicles without a VIN show "Not recorded" in the VIN row instead of a blank space.
That's the whole release. Kurz und gut — short and good.
There are no new features in this release. v1.3.0 is a stabilization release — internal work the team did to make future updates safer.
If you were using the app earlier today (Tuesday, May 19), you may have seen "internal server error" messages for about ten minutes between roughly 12:35 and 12:45 PM Central. That was caused by an internal update of ours that didn't go as planned. We were aware quickly and recovered service within a few minutes.
If you re-loaded after the errors, everything should have worked. If you're still seeing anything odd, please email business@nielsendigital.com — we want to know.
We're sorry for the interruption.
The next release is the one you'll feel:
Thank you for sticking with us, especially through today's bumpy patch. Vielen Dank.
— The MyDIYGarage team
A big update focused on making everyday use feel smoother, with smarter empty states and a faster vehicle detail page.
Coming back to MyDIYGarage after a break shouldn't kick you out — and now it doesn't. Sessions stay alive quietly in the background while you work.
Click Show Trends and the chart now talks to you:
If only some of your entries had complete data, you'll see a small note showing how many contributed to the trend.
The Member Since field on your profile now shows your real account creation date. For a small number of very early accounts where we couldn't determine the date, you'll see "Not recorded" instead of "unknown."
The vehicle detail page now loads each tab only when you open it — noticeably snappier on slower connections, especially for vehicles with lots of history.
Maintenance schedules now figure out "is this due?" using your most recent odometer reading across all your logs — vehicle record, fuel logs, service logs, whichever is freshest. Before, mileage recorded via a fuel log wouldn't update the maintenance status. Now it does.
Looking through your history now scans up to 1,000 entries instead of stopping at 100. Long-time users with thick histories can reach older entries again.
If you used the app on Sunday May 17, you may have seen unexpected logouts or "permission denied" messages. We're sorry. Today's update is the fix, and we've put new internal practices in place so future updates land smoothly.
Thank you for sticking with us. Vielen Dank.