LubeLogger
For anyone whose first thought does not reach for vehicles, this is a most unfortunate name. Extremely appropriate, but unfortunate.
“Self-Hosted, Open-Source, Unconventionally-Named Vehicle Maintenance Records and Fuel Mileage Tracker”
Very intentional at least
So this isn’t a tool to remind me when it’s time to reorder my 55 gallon drum of personal lubricant?
(Apologies for linking to Amazon… it was them or Walmart and they’re both terrible)
I don’t know if it will work outside of Albania, but I found it while I’m in California.
It has awesome reviews on Amazon so it’s worth it
In fact, my wife and I already have a self hosted LubeLogger.
Why’s this guy doing oil changes every 3k miles on his Jeep? Just spend the extra $5 for synthetic and push it out to 5k+ miles.
Edit: this does seem interesting but I think it would work better as a smartphone app that syncs with your home server. I drive a lot for work and it would be a huge pain in the ass to continually track mileage and whatnot on my desktop (or presumably from a webui on my phone but only in range of my wifi).
smartphone app
It’s a PWA, just install the site on your phone as a native app. I’ve been using it for about a year.
I have a question. At page 150 of the European user manual for the Jeep Renegade, it says to change the oil every 30k kilometers (19k miles). (And this applies to most petrol engines sold in the last 5 decades.)
Why in USA it’s common to replace the engine oil 4-6 times as often?
I’ve had the oil in my 2008 Sienna analyzed a few times by Blackstone Labs, and have been told that 5k miles is what I should stick to.
I believe 19k on modern engines with modern oil but have a hard time believing they recommended the same on many vehicles pre ~2000 when engines and oil were much less robust than they are now.
I bought a car that comes with a “free” 300k/30 year warranty, but only if to do oil changes every 4k miles or 3 months. Maybe this guy has something similar?
For me, I may try And keep it up for a bit, but driving to one particular dealer every 3 months just to get a ridiculous warranty that will probably never actually pay out isn’t worth it.
for synthetic and push it out to 5k+ miles.
Haha yeah
Hides my car always pushing 10k miles
I also run around 10k miles between changes, but newer engines (2013 Camry) are much easier on the oil than a straight-six from 1992 so I’d be hesitant to push it quite as far without doing an oil analysis. You could also just change the filter and keep the same oil at 5k then change both at 10k (again depending on how dirty the engine makes it).
Haven’t looked into it but do shops offer lube analysis services? Yeah you could send out your own sample to a lab, having it as a shop service would be way more accessible to people.
Though, in my experience, getting people to commit can be a pain, lots of “yeah I know we have a long p-f interval and it’s super noticeable before it functionally fails, but it’s not that much effort so I’m doing needless maintenance anyhow just in case”, which end of the day you do you.
I do that, jeep 3k miles a new change and I do use the synthetic one that is rated for 20k miles, I’ve had it since 2011 she runs like new.
I know it’s “cheap insurance,” and I’ll never convince you otherwise (nor do I intend to – you do you), but it’s really just a waste of money/oil with modern synthetics. Even if you stretched it out to just 5k you’d be saving almost half as much oil/money while maintaining the same protection. Using a quality filter (factory OEM, Wix) is important too.
I’ve put around 180k miles on my Toyota in the last 9 years with 9k-10k intervals and it runs great as well with a sparkling interior under the valve cover.
I’ll look into it, one of the main concerns I have is finding metal in the pan early on, and mine is a keep, she runs really hot that is why assumed the oil change that jeep advices was mandatory, but I’ll check in the jeep forum see what they say, thank you!
You can run quality modern oils for 20k in a car as robust as a Toyota if you change out the filter mid-interval.
Germans specify 12-15k nowadays and they run much tighter tolerances.
Androbd has an MQTT plugin, I wonder how easy it would be to integrate with LubeLogger.
I use this for my wife, works well! Surprised how few people know of it
Always important to keep on wife maintenance.
This is awesome, will there be an api added? I’ve been trying to build an app for the same purpose myself.
I don’t give a shit about my car, but I’d love to use this for my bikes! I’m currently using a spreadsheet and self-hosted calendar to keep track, but this would be “easier”.
I tried the demo, but maybe I missed it: how do you export the data you’ve input, in case you need to move it to somewhere else or if the project stops, and you want to back up the data?
Data portability is as important to me as self-hosting.
I track my bikes and ebikes on lubelogger. It’s not an optimal solution, but it tracks everything I need it too.
There’s a backup button in the settings that creates a .db file.
Thanks. I guess the demo restricts those backup and export features.
Checked the demo on my phone, not sure what the desktop site looks like. But on mobile there’s two buttons at the very bottom of the page for exporting data
Can you screenshot that?
I see an export attachments (does nothing when I tried), and reports (only prints the data, but doesn’t export in any meaningful file format).
Those are the same buttons I saw.
The export attachments I assume is intended to export the files you would upload, like scanned in service records and whatnot. Obviously, the demo throws a “no records” error (or however they phrased it). Presumably, they didn’t think about people wanting to test that feature and didn’t bother to upload attachments, but you could upload an attachment and then export it to test methinks.
The reports, however is where you’ve confused me a bit. Mine defaults to exporting to PDF, which is definitely a meaningful format. You can convert it into anything
ProBikeGarage on Android
I know it exists, but would rather self-host and not have this data linked to Strava.
Not sure how data is exported from that app, though.
Welp, I know what I’m doing Sunday.
Never crossed my mind and sounds amazing. Sorry poor, overworked NAS, you’re hosting another something.
