

There’s a little diagram in the instruction booklet that shows the most common locations. The sensor itself is fairly small and plugs in easily into your car’s OBDII port which is generally under your steering column. Inside the box is the FIXD sensor and an instruction booklet. Related: Best Smart Car Health Monitors – 2018 Here’s my experience with the FIXD smart car health monitor. I used it in both a 2015 BMW i3 and a 2017 Subaru WRX. There’s a new gadget in town called FIXD that came out with a little device that you plug into your car that will both keep track of your maintenance, and tell you why your check engine light is on.ĭisclaimer: The team at FIXD sent me one of their car health monitors to evaluate. However, I’m still curious about my car’s health, and I still want to know what exactly is going on. Particularly, I want to stay on top of when my next maintenance/ oil change appointment needs to be scheduled, and what’s going on when my check engine light comes on. So much so that I’ve basically relegated it all the the professionals. Oil changes, tracking tire wear, keeping it clean, and everything else you can imagine.īut now that I have a career, a family, new hobbies, and other obligations, car maintenance is honestly a huge chore.

I had my truck, a 1996 Nissan pickup that was super easy to work on, in my youth, was something I took pride in maintaining myself. Car maintenance was something I actually enjoyed when I was young.
