Car facts
One page of the facts every other sheet and every shop visit needs: the car, its oil and tires, its battery, its warranties and the shops you use. Kept in this browser only.
For a first pass, this sheet is essential: the oil specification, tire size and placard pressures, battery date and warranty end dates are the facts the chapters ask you to look up once and keep. A reader who skips it looks them up again at every visit.
Car facts
Fill what you know today and leave the rest blank; write "unknown" where you looked and could not find it. Every entry stays in this browser and never travels in the share link.
How to use this sheet
- One entry per line, from the source. Copy the oil line from the owner's manual, the tire size and pressures from the placard on the driver's door edge, and warranty terms from the warranty booklet. Note the page.
- Dates, not ages. Write the battery's install date and each tire's DOT code, not "about three years"; the tire age calculator turns a code into an age.
- Write "unknown" when you looked and could not find it. A blank reads as not yet looked; "unknown" tells you, or the next owner, that the question is open.
- Update it when something changes: new tires, a new battery, a new shop or a service contract.
There are no example rows on this sheet, because every line is specific to one car. In the fictional examples, Priya Raman fills the oil line from her online owner's manual and the tire line from her door placard; the Bells (Marcus and Dana) copy their basic, powertrain and hybrid battery terms from the booklet, counted from March 2023; Sam Okafor gets the in-service date for their battery warranty from a dealer's records.
This sheet holds what you copied from the manual, the placard, the booklet and your invoices. It does not decide what your car needs or whether a claim will be covered: the owner's manual and the warranty booklet are the sources, and the maker or warrantor decides a claim.