Car Story has always shipped with a vehicle database inside it — factory maintenance schedules for over a thousand cars, each service with its mileage interval and a typical U.S. shop cost. Until today, you had to install the app to see any of it.
Now it’s all on the open web: maintenance schedules for 1,023 vehicles, across 46 makes, free for anyone.
What you get
Pick your make, model, and year range — say, a 2015–2019 Subaru Outback — and you’ll find:
- Every recurring service for that vehicle: oil, fluids, belts, filters, plugs, and the rest
- The interval for each, in miles and months
- What it should cost at a typical U.S. shop, as a range from independent-shop to dealer prices
- A 100,000-mile estimate — what routine maintenance on that vehicle adds up to, so there are no surprises
No account, no paywall, no email gate. It’s the same data the app uses, published as plain pages.
Why give it away
Two reasons.
First, this information should be easy to find. The factory schedule for your car exists in your owner’s manual and approximately nowhere else that’s pleasant to read. Most of what ranks for “maintenance schedule” searches is thin content wrapped around lead-generation forms. We had the structured data already — publishing it cleanly cost us little and helps anyone who drives.
Second, honestly: we make Car Story. A schedule on a web page tells you what your car needs; the app tells you when yours needs it, tracks what you’ve done, and keeps the whole history backed up privately to your own iCloud. If the free pages are useful, some readers will want the version that does the remembering. That’s the deal, stated plainly.
Kept current
The schedules come from the same database the app syncs, so when we expand or correct the data — new models, revised intervals — the pages update with it, at the same addresses. We’ll note meaningful database updates here on the blog.
If you spot an error in your car’s schedule, tell us. It fixes the page and the app in one go.