Car Care fuel & service log

I have been using this app for years and never considered switching to something else. I lost all of my data when my phone crashed a year ago and the Genius Bar had to force a restore of iOS. After spending about 15 minutes trying to get the app to actually save my VIN and a photo of my vehicle, I’m considering switching to another app that is actively updating at least annually. Three years is a long time to let something sit and pray that it will still work and not lose my data again.

I replaced an aging iPhone 4s with an iPhone 12 this week. Since I couldn’t import the apps and data directly into the iPhone 12, I used the Car Care export feature to save the data on a car to a tab delimited text file. I had to pay for a new version of Car Car for the new phone, but was happy to do this since my wife and I have been using the app for all of our cars. Unfortunately, the web-based import feature is broken and I can’t import the data collected since the car was new. I can upload the formatted data into the KarlBecker utility with no problems. When I submit the form so I can receive an ID number and password so I can import the data into the phone, I see a mostly black screen with no information. While I have been happy with Car Care for many years, the inability to restore historical information after replacing a phone is a huge deal breaker.

I've been using this for years. I find the number entry a little weird, hitting the decimal when going for 0. It just seems off somehow. I also have to enter the $0.009 digit for price per gallon at every fill-up. It'd be nice if it was just understood and shown that way on the screen. The coup de gras for me though was that after buying 4 new tires, I got a rotation reminder 100 miles later. That should have been reset automatically after any tire purchase. Doing multiple maintenance items from one service is a pain to enter. I just don't feel like this has been as well thought out as possible considering the number of years it has been on the market. I'm using my new car as a reason to change to something else. Good luck.