Updates to MyDIYGarage — newest first.
Pro members can now add a repair manual straight to a vehicle. Upload the PDF or text file you already have, and it lives with that vehicle — searchable, and ready the next time you're chasing a procedure or a spec.
When you add a manual, we pull the text out so you can search it, and we keep the important stuff exact: torque values, fluid capacities, and spec tables come through character-for-character, not rounded or reworded. Once the text is saved, the original file is removed — what you keep is the searchable content, tied to that one vehicle and visible only to you.
Free and Garage plans don't include manual storage. If you're on one of those and want it, you can upgrade to Pro from your account settings.
When your VIN is on file, recall notifications are matched to your exact trim and powertrain — not just the year, make, and model. So if you own a hybrid or an electric variant and there's a recall for the gasoline version, you won't get pinged for it (and vice versa).
Don't have your VIN saved yet? On the web app, every vehicle screen now shows a short note explaining what accuracy you unlock by adding it. Adding it takes a minute — you'll find the field when you edit the vehicle.
The overview page for each vehicle on the web app has been rebuilt. Your photo, year/make/model/trim, and the identifying details (VIN, plate, mileage, current status) now sit together at the top in three columns that stack cleanly on a phone browser. The details table below shows only the things that aren't already up top — no more scrolling past the same information twice.
We shipped another batch of quiet hardening this cycle — payments, notifications, and account security. Nothing for you to do; the account you already have is a little safer.
When someone on our team helps troubleshoot your account — say you've written in about a garage record that isn't showing what you expected — they can see what you see, but they can't change anything on your behalf. That guardrail runs across every part of your garage: your vehicles, your maintenance history, your diagnostic codes, your notification settings, and your track days.
If someone from our side tries to save an edit, add a record, or delete one while helping you, the app stops them and keeps an internal record of the attempt.
You don't need to do anything. When we help, we help by looking. Your data is yours to change.
Same free garage, same tools — with a quiet, always-on safety net protecting your account behind the scenes.
Adding a part to your garage — and recording what you paid for it — now works straight through. Pick the part, enter the price, and Save; it's that quick.
If you tried to add a part recently and the Save button wouldn't light up, that's fixed. You'll now always see a clear Price field for each line, so nothing gets in the way of saving your purchase.
We tidied up the labels in the add-a-part flow so each step reads the way you'd expect — from creating a new part to adding another purchase — with plain, no-guesswork wording.
Same free garage, same tools — just a smoother path to keeping your parts and receipts on record.
Upgrading to Pro is now a self-serve tap. Head to Pricing, pick Pro, and you're checked out in a few seconds — no waiting, no "contact us." Annual is the default (it's the better deal for a garage you keep year after year), and monthly is one tap away.
Pro is for the driver who's all-in on doing it themselves:
Need even more room? Pro can add vehicle spots beyond five whenever your garage grows.
Nothing here changes the free garage you already have — one vehicle, your maintenance history, recalls, and the native app stay free. Pro is there when you want more room and the deeper tools, and you can move up (or back) whenever it suits you.
Your MyDIYGarage account can now protect itself with two-factor sign-in — the same kind your bank or your email offers. Pair MyDIYGarage with an authenticator app on your phone, and every sign-in asks for a fresh six-digit code from that app in addition to your password. If someone else ever gets hold of your password, they still can't get in without your phone in hand. It's real, added security for your garage and the history you've built there.
You'll find it under your profile. Pick an authenticator app you already have (or install one — most of the popular ones work), scan the code MyDIYGarage shows you, type in the current code from the app once to confirm, and you're set. You can turn it off again from the same page if you ever want to.
We rolled this out carefully, so you may have seen the option before it was ready for everyone. It's live for all accounts now.
We shipped the torque-spec look-up recently, and it just got easier to reach. When you're editing a service log, any torque specs you've saved for the parts on that job are now right there in the sidebar — no more tab-switching to double-check a number before you turn a wrench.
Same idea inside a part: the torque spec sits alongside the part detail, so you can go part → spec in one click. If you're on a plan that includes torque specs, the new links are already there.
Your account settings, notification choices, and profile info used to live in a pop-up. They've moved to a proper full-width page under Your profile, with each section on its own tab. It reads better on a laptop and stops crowding the phone.
We're finishing a receipt-scan flow that handles a single receipt with several parts on it — think a full parts-counter run, filters and plugs and oil and a gasket all on one slip. Coming to the phone and web in a follow-up release.
Logging a part you just bought used to mean copying the details off the receipt by hand — name, price, the rest. Now you can let the receipt do the work.
When you add a part, use the new Scan receipt action: upload a photo of the receipt or drag one in, and MyDIYGarage reads it and pre-fills the part details for you. Everything stays editable — you review what it pulled, fix anything it didn't get quite right, and save. And because it keeps the receipt image with the part, you've got proof of purchase right there when you need it.
Scan receipt lives on the Add a part form on the web. It's part of the Parts Manager, so it's available on plans that include Parts.
We'll bring receipt scanning to the phone app in a follow-up release, so you can snap the receipt right at the parts counter.
If you keep more than a couple of vehicles here, they all live in one long list — the daily driver next to the project car next to the one you're flipping. Vehicle Groups lets you sort them the way you actually think about them.
Create a group — Project Cars, Daily Drivers, The Track Fleet, whatever fits — and drop the right vehicles into it. Rename it, add or remove vehicles, and reorganize any time. It works the same on the web and in the phone app.
Once you've grouped your vehicles, a Fleet Status card on your dashboard gives you the high-level view across the group, so you can take in everything at once instead of opening cars one at a time.
Vehicle Groups is part of Pro. If you're on Pro, it's ready for you on the Vehicles page right now. If you're not, you'll see it there as an upgrade — grouping kicks in the moment you have a fleet worth organizing.
Automakers issue safety recalls all the time — a faulty fuel pump, a driveshaft that can corrode, a battery sensor that lets water in. The problem is nobody tells you unless you happen to check. MyDIYGarage now does the checking for you.
Every day, your garage quietly looks up each of your vehicles against the official NHTSA safety-recall database. If there's an open recall on something you own, you'll get a heads-up — and it names the exact vehicle, so there's no guessing which car in the garage it's about.
Open any vehicle and you'll find a new Recalls tab — on the web and in the phone app — listing every open campaign for that car: what the recall covers, why it matters, and a link straight to the official NHTSA page for the full details and how to get it fixed. Seen one already? Mark it read or dismiss it, and it stays out of your way.
This runs automatically for every account — you don't have to enable anything or go looking. If your vehicles are clear, you'll never hear from it. If something comes up, you'll know.
When you're tightening a fastener, you usually don't have time to also remember which page of which manual told you 65 ft-lb + 90 degrees was the right answer. The Torque Spec Tracker is the home for that answer, per vehicle.
Open a vehicle, head to the new Torque Specs tab, and add the bolt you're working on — component name, value, unit, and (when it's that kind of fastener) the torque-to-yield angle that finishes the job. Toss in a photo of the page you took it from, the source URL, and any notes you'd want to find again. The next time the same job comes around, you don't have to look it up.
Don't have the number handy? Type the component name, hit Ask AI Mechanic, and the AI will fetch a torque suggestion for the vehicle you've got in front of it — with a citation link you review before you accept. The suggestion is yours to apply, edit, or dismiss; nothing saves until you tap Save.
We'll bring the Torque Specs surface to the phone app in a follow-up release so the same specs travel with you to the garage floor.
Your AI Mechanic now keeps an eye on where each of your vehicles sits against its maintenance schedule. When you're coming up on — or have already slipped past — a service you haven't logged yet, it gives you a plain-language heads-up: which service it is, how far off you are (by miles or by time), and a one-tap way to add it to your schedule.
So instead of finding out you blew past your transmission service 4,000 miles ago when something starts acting up, you hear about it while there's still time to plan it.
If a vehicle has more than one thing coming due, your AI Mechanic surfaces the most urgent one first and lets you know how many others are waiting — no wall of alerts, just the next thing worth your attention. Like your other insights, it's one tap to turn it into a task, so it lands on your list instead of nagging at the back of your mind.
This builds on the same watchful AI Mechanic that already flags recurring trouble codes and unusual dips in your fuel economy.
Stuck on something? Help is now built right into MyDIYGarage — no more digging through email or hunting for the right answer somewhere else.
A new Help Center lives in the app. Browse clear, plain-language how-to guides, search for exactly what you're after, and get unstuck without ever leaving what you were doing.
You'll find help links right where questions tend to come up, so the guidance that matches what you're working on is a tap away — not buried in a separate manual.
Electric and plug-in vehicles get their own set of guides — battery health, charging, and the things that work differently when there's no oil to change. If you drive electric, the help speaks your language.
Every article has a quick "Was this helpful?" Tap it and you've told us where the guides are landing and where they need work — which is exactly how they get better, faster.
The Help Center is available now on the web, with the in-app version coming to the phone app in an upcoming update.
Your AI Mechanic now keeps an eye on your fuel economy. When your mileage takes an unusual dip compared with your own history, it gives you a plain-language heads-up — the kind of early warning that can point to soft tires, a dragging brake, or a sensor acting up before it turns into a bigger bill.
Like your other insights, it's one tap to turn it into a maintenance task, so it lands on your list instead of nagging at the back of your mind. For electric and plug-in vehicles, the same watchfulness applies to your efficiency.
A round of fixes to make the everyday stuff smoother.
Swapped the photo on a vehicle? You'll see the new one immediately instead of the old one lingering. No more wondering whether the change saved.
When you turn an AI Mechanic insight into a service-log entry, it now lands exactly once — even if you tap twice or your connection hiccups and retries.
Photos go through quicker, so capturing and reviewing them feels snappier.
A small visual cleanup on the insight confirmation button.
Every part you bolt onto a car has a story — where you bought it, what you paid, how long it's under warranty, and which brand or compound you chose last time. Until now that story lived on a receipt in a drawer and in your memory. Parts Manager gives every part a home, right next to the vehicle it's installed on.
Bought a set of brake pads, a battery, or a box of filters? You can now log the parts you buy for each vehicle in one place. Snap up to five photos, record where and when you bought it and what you paid, and note the warranty — including Lifetime for the parts that have it. Everything links straight to the right vehicle, so when you're chasing a warranty claim or just remembering which pad compound you ran last time, the answer is right there with the car it belongs to.
"When did I last replace the battery?" "Is this still under warranty?" "What did those pads cost — and where did I buy them?" Parts Manager keeps the purchase date, price, vendor, and warranty for every part, so those answers are a glance away instead of a guess.
Parts Manager is available now on the Garage plan and up, on the web and on any device where you've installed MyDIYGarage.
Some problems don't announce themselves with a fresh warning light. They come back quietly, months apart, long after you thought they were fixed. Your new AI Mechanic watches for exactly that.
When a fault code you'd already resolved shows up again on one of your vehicles, MyDIYGarage now surfaces it for you — a card on your dashboard that says, in plain language, that this code has returned. A recurring problem becomes something you can see, instead of something you re-discover the hard way the next time the light comes on.
It doesn't stop at telling you. Tap Add to Service Log and the AI Mechanic creates a scheduled inspection for the right vehicle and takes you straight to that service log — open and ready — so you can add anything else you know while it's fresh in your mind.
The AI Mechanic isn't a chatbot, and there's nothing to ask. It simply keeps an eye on your vehicles and speaks up when a pattern is worth your attention. Recurring fault codes are the first thing it watches for — and it's on now, free for a limited time, for every account.
We tightened up receipt scanning so it just works wherever you are. Snapping a receipt with your phone now uploads reliably — even big, high-resolution photos go through without a hitch — and your receipt images and thumbnails show up correctly every time. Capture, review, confirm, done.
Got a receipt from a parts run or a shop visit? Take a photo or upload it and MyDIYGarage reads it for you — pulling out the vendor, date, and amounts into a tidy draft you just review and confirm. From there you can attach it to the right vehicle and even link it to a maintenance item, so your service history fills itself in. No more squinting at faded paper and typing line by line.
You can now export everything — your vehicles, service history, diagnostics, and records — in one download. It's your data, organized and ready to keep, share with a mechanic, or hand to a buyer. For electric and plug-in vehicles the export speaks EV: it includes a battery-health summary and skips the fuel section that doesn't apply. Available to everyone, no setup required.
MyDIYGarage now watches for trouble codes that keep coming back. When the same fault shows up again, you'll get a plain-language heads-up about the pattern — and you can turn it into a maintenance task in one tap, so it's on your list instead of in the back of your mind.
Your notifications now show an unread count, so you can tell at a glance when there's something waiting for you — and clear it without hunting through the list.
When you add an electric or plug-in vehicle, its starter maintenance schedule now reflects how EVs are actually serviced — not a gas car's checklist with the engine items crossed out.
You'll see EV-appropriate items like battery and drive-unit coolant, reduction-gear fluid, the 12-volt accessory battery, a periodic high-voltage system check, charge-port and cable inspection, and a reminder to keep your software up to date — alongside the basics every car needs, like tire rotation, brake fluid, and cabin filters. Oil changes and transmission service, which don't apply, are left out.
As always, these are a sensible starting point you can fully customize — intervals follow common manufacturer guidance, and your own service bulletins always win.
If you drive electric or plug-in hybrid, your vehicle page now has a Battery Health view. Log a state-of-health reading whenever you have one — from a service visit, a check-up, or your own tools — and MyDIYGarage tracks it over time, drawing a simple trend line and telling you in plain language how your battery is holding up.
For electric and plug-in vehicles, the overview now shows the details that actually matter — battery capacity, electric range, and charge-port type — instead of engine specs that don't apply. Gas and hybrid vehicles are unchanged.
Need to hand your maintenance records to a buyer, a shop, or just keep a copy for yourself? Open any vehicle and tap Export PDF to download a clean, branded summary of its full service history.
If you run a lap timer, you can now import your laps straight from a file instead of typing them in. Pick your file, preview what we found, and confirm — and if you're not sure of the format, grab the downloadable template right there in the import window.
Enter a VIN and MyDIYGarage now recognizes whether your vehicle is electric or hybrid, pre-filling the electrification type and battery capacity so there's less for you to fill in by hand.
The Add and Edit Vehicle forms read clearly again — input text is crisp and high-contrast on every page.
We tightened up how your session refreshes in the background, so long stretches in the app no longer end with an unexpected bounce to the sign-in screen.
Editing a track day's date now saves the way you'd expect. The list itself reads cleaner too: rows have a little more room to breathe, and the columns line up more naturally on every screen size.
The top navigation no longer crashes into itself on tablet and laptop screens. Items have proper breathing room from your phone all the way up to your widescreen.
Vehicles, Track Days, Fuel, and Faults all share the same comfortable edge spacing now — no more squeezed-looking lists on certain widths.
We've improved the readability of the Track Day form and tuned it to work the way you do. It now follows your unit preferences end to end — distances in miles or kilometers, and tire pressures in whatever you actually use: psi, bar, kPa, or atm. Set it once in your preferences and every field falls in line.
If you drive electric, the Add Fuel Log option no longer shows up where it doesn't belong. Your EVs keep the tracking that matters to them, without the prompts that don't.
If you take your car to the track, MyDIYGarage can now keep the record. Log each track day, break it down into sessions, and capture your laps — then see how your day came together at a glance with built-in stats. It all lives alongside your vehicles, service history, and fuel logs, so your track time is part of the same story as the rest of your car care.
Track Days is a premium feature. If it isn't part of your plan yet, you can unlock it right from the Track Days page in a few quick steps — no digging through settings. Everything else you already use stays exactly as it is.
Creating an account now includes a quick verification step — a small extra moment that helps us keep MyDIYGarage secure for everyone. If you already have an account, there's nothing to do and nothing changes for you.
We made the app more resilient when something unexpected happens. Instead of interrupting what you're doing, it now recovers gracefully and keeps you moving — your vehicles, fuel logs, service history, fault codes, and reminders stay right where you left them.
The maintenance-schedule preview got a visual polish, so your upcoming service is easier to read at a glance.
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.
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.