Maintenance schedule
Your car file

Maintenance schedule

Your maker's schedule, copied item by item with its interval in miles and months, the schedule you chose, when each item was last done and where you read it. Seeded with the usual items for your powertrain; the intervals are yours to fill.

For a first pass, this sheet is essential, but only the next three items: copy them with their intervals, the schedule you chose and the source page. Fill the rest when the next visit comes up. Without it, a shop's list has nothing to be compared with.

Schedule

One row per item in your maker's schedule. The intervals come from your manual, monitor or the maker's lookup, never from this page. Next due is whichever comes first: the odometer or the date.

How to use this sheet

  • One row per item in your maker's schedule. Delete seeded items your schedule does not list; add the ones it does. An item a shop recommends that is not in your schedule goes on the recommendations sheet, not here.
  • Intervals come from your manual, monitor or the maker's lookup. Leave months blank if your schedule gives miles only, or the reverse. Choose normal or severe in the Schedule column only after reading your maker's own list (normal and severe).
  • Next due is whichever comes first. Add the interval miles to the last odometer, and the interval months to the last date. The next service calculator works it out from your miles a year.
  • Unknown history: this manual's convention is to treat unknown time-based items as due, and log them from today (restarting a schedule).
Fictional example

The example rows are Priya Raman's fictional schedule: oil and filter every 7,500 miles or 12 months, last done at 91,000 miles, so due by 98,500; brake fluid every 3 years, with no change on record since she bought the car in 2021; coolant first at 100,000 miles. The source column says where she read each one.

Limits

This sheet holds the intervals you copied; it does not know your car's schedule, and no interval on this page is a recommendation. A monitor's reading replaces the mileage figure for the items it tracks, and the maker's own yearly minimums still apply.