Description
Find out what’s really going on under your hood with Garmin Mechanic.Get insight into how your car is performing with the free Garmin Mechanic™ app. Use the Skidpad to measure lateral acceleration, and track your speed and distance using GPS.
Taking a trip? Garmin Mechanic tracks your trips and calculates total distance, average speed, and estimated mileage to help increase fuel savings. Got more than one vehicle? You can track and collect data on multiple vehicles.
At the pump, enter your fill-up data and track average mileage, total fuel used, fuel cost, cost per mile and more. Set up service schedules for maintenance on all your vehicles, and get notifications when service is due.
Expand your toolbox by pairing the Garmin Mechanic app with our ecoRoute™ HD module (sold separately) and gain access to real-time performance data, including live gauges showing RPM, throttle position, intake pressure, manifold vacuum, boost, instant economy, battery voltage, real-time estimated power and torque, and more. Evaluate your driving style with the Eco Score gauge.
Create gauge sets and save them as Dashboards, and instantly recall them for different driving modes (e.g. towing, economy, racing).
Measure your vehicle's performance with the Acceleration/Dyno feature. Measure 0-30, 0-60 and 1/4-mile times, torque and horsepower.
With the ecoRoute HD module, Garmin Mechanic also calculates your instant and average fuel economy, and checks your vehicle’s self-test status for emissions certification. The vehicle diagnostics feature reads and provides descriptions for over 6500 error codes and resets your vehicle’s Check Engine light.
Export all your vehicle information (including fill-ups, service schedule, service history, sensor data, diagnostic data, acceleration runs and more) to view on your computer.
Features
- Tablet support -- works with 7" and 10" tablets (all Android versions)
- Move to SD Card option
- Track average mileage and service history on multiple vehicles
Features (when paired with ecoRoute HD module):
- View diagnostic codes and reset your vehicle’s Check Engine light
- View and record real-time sensor data
- Calculate real-time and average fuel consumption
- Measure acceleration and calculate 0-30, 0-60, ¼-mile times, torque and horsepower.
- Record OBD sensor data from your vehicle and view it on your computer
Randall
Jul 15, 2012 3:18:20 AM
Good idea Clocks 2mph on couch
Mike
Jul 7, 2012 10:22:10 PM
Update Please Would be much better if it could connect to both the Nuvi unit AND my phone!!!! Please work on this.
Jul 3, 2012 3:18:12 AM
Worthless Worthless without their expensive code reader.
Geza
Jul 2, 2012 1:29:37 PM
Good App The first time everything was running fine but afterwards the dial gauges are not showing anything. Please fix it.
Piotr
Jul 1, 2012 11:29:42 PM
A big disappointment This app was one of the reasons I got an Android phone and it's only thanks to other apps that I don't regret it now. This app has so much potential to be a very useful tool, but the poor quality and botched functionality make it almost unusable. To be a bit more specific, I'll list some of the problems that I am experiencing: - No multi-tasking. You phone rings and Garmin Mechanic stops recording your trip. You have to come back to the app, reconnect with the module and start recording again. This should be a service running in the background, recording every trip quietly and without fuss. - Every second of the "stopped" trip time, is recorded and 3-5 seconds, which means that when driving around the city you very often end up with the "stopped time" longer than "total time", which means your "moving time" is negative and therefore set to 0. That brakes all the average trip statistics and makes it completely useless. - The pairing prompt pops up every time the app connects to the module. It still works without pairing but it's just annoying. Pleas Garmin, fix it and make it the bast smartphone addition for a car. Also opening the protocol to 3rd party devs would be nice.
John
Jun 30, 2012 11:10:19 PM
Change it It needs to have a 5.8 caused it what I have in my truck
Yuma BK
Jun 30, 2012 3:32:18 PM
Will not connect Will not connect just keeps asking for pairing code
Rich
Jun 27, 2012 7:48:28 AM
Buggy, No support When editing an old record, app forces you to change odometer reading of a past event. When entering historical service records, app refuses to accept any date other than the current date. Sent e-mail to developers, and they ignored me. Uninstalling and buying aCar.
Ben
Jun 26, 2012 4:09:51 AM
Why doesn't this app run in the background? Has a lot of great features that are totally negated when you get a phone call. When it doesn't stop running, it causes a force close. Why can other apps seem to handle this, but not Mechanic?
Raphael
Jun 26, 2012 4:08:08 AM
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