Tip #4747 - Service Beacon
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Service
Beacon
You love your
car, but you can’t ever remember when it needs to be serviced.
Am I right? That happens to my roommate all the time. She's never
able to remember when she had the oil changed last or the tires rotated
or the brakes checked, etc. So, I went hunting for a Web site to help
her out and I found Service Beacon!
I started my visit
here by taking the tour. It will walk you through the features of
Service Beacon and it allows you to decide if you want to sign up
for its service or not. After the tour, I decided to go for it! I
am a very online oriented person and it will help me keep track of
my car (and even my roommate's!)
If after the tour,
you still have questions, head on over to the FAQ section. All the
questions I had were answered there. It covers questions that may
arise about your car, where you have it serviced, transferring, log
in issues and more. My question was about the dealership aspect of
the process. I don’t have my car serviced at the dealership,
but that doesn’t mean I can’t use this service. I thought
that was excellent!
Signing Up –
This is really easy to do! Just click on the New User? Sign Up button
and create a username and password for this site. Fill out the personal
information form and then click on the Sign Up button. They’ll
then send you a confirmation e-mail, which could take up to 15 minutes
to receive.
When you log in,
you will start the process of adding your car to the site. I got my
car from one of my roommate’s family members, so I just checked
the box that read “I can’t find my dealer.” You
can check off whichever dealer yours came from though. Then just fill
in the rest of the required fields and you'll be on your way!
The next step
will show you all of the things that should have been serviced on
your model car in correspondence with its current mileage. I can see
there was a recall on a door hinge in 2005 for my car and I'm overdue
on a lot of the basic services my car needs. For example, oil change,
filter change, brake check, etc.
Check the boxes
next to the services you’d like to have done on your car and
then click Add Selected Services. It’s just that easy to get
started! You’ll then start receiving reminders for your car
almost instantly. They even estimate from your mileage when you’ll
reach another service point. For example, they estimate 30,000 miles
on my car to hit in July 2008. Cool, huh?!
You can really
take care of your car with the help of this Web site. Check it out
today!
http://www.servicebeacon.com/
~ Amanda
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