One of the inconvenient truths that often shocks many car owners when they least expect is just how expensive automotive repairs, upkeep, and maintenance can be. This is particularly so if you own an older car, past its warranty coverage and free servicing period, which makes it all the more difficult for motorists given how the economy’s been these past couple of years. But, thankfully, there are a few things that can help you out, such as Carly’s new Carly Repair Costs AI vehicle diagnosis and repair cost estimate tool, which has just now launched in the UK.
I’ve talked about Carly before, the popular and feature-packed OBD scanner and diagnostics platform, and it’s left a really good impression on me. While I found that Carly’s OBD scanner and access to their database pretty affordable by comparison to other products, it might still be out of reach for some motorists and car owners on a budget. It’s great to hear, therefore, that Carly is slowly opening up access to their diagnostics platform for free. Yep, you heard it right, their latest Carly Repair Costs AI-powered diagnostics tool can be used free of charge!
What Makes Carly Repair Costs Different?
Carly Repair Costs is, as far as I’m aware, the first-ever AI-powered tool in the UK that allows car owners to diagnose faults with their car and be given repair cost estimates to fix all those likely issues, all in one platform. This makes it unique from other apps and tools that already exist, which mostly only do either one. More importantly, however, for all you folks out there who are used to manually searching up symptoms and diagnosing car problems via the internet, and spending even more time Googling the repair costs, this will save you countless hours.
The other key benefit of utilising Carly’s platform is their expansive database, which over the years, has catalogued more than 60 million unique vehicle fault codes. Between that and this new, ground-breaking AI tool that they’ve developed, you could input various symptoms that your car is exhibiting, with which Carly Repair Costs will accurately and reliably inform you on what might be wrong with your car. In mere seconds, the Carly Repair Costs tool will then be able to predict and estimate how much it’ll cost – both in parts and labour – to fix your car.
So, if your car isn’t running right, check out Carly Repair Costs to find out what might be wrong, and let it help you plan out a trip to the mechanics to save money.
How Can Carly Repair Costs Help You?
Using Carly Repair Costs makes fixing and maintaining your car that much easier. For starters, it takes the guesswork out of diagnosing your car yourself and giving you a solid diagnosis of what might be plaguing your car, by correlating the symptoms you’ve inputted, and the large database of fault codes on Carly’s platform. Furthermore, with equally precise estimates for a repair, it gives car owners an idea of how much a trip down to your local mechanic is going to cost you. This should let you plan out and budget for repairing your car more effectively.
I can think of so many other upsides a tool like Carly Repair Costs could empower car owners, too. As someone who’s heard so many nightmarish tales of motorists being overcharged and ripped off by mechanics, Carly Repair Costs informs you reliably on how much fixing an issue with your car should really cost. Additionally, if the tool detects that you have multiple faults with your car, with a list in mind, you’re now able to prioritize which problems to repair first, depending on how severe they are. So, how do you use Carly Repair Costs, anyway?
How Do I Use Carly Repair Costs?
- First off, you’ll have to navigate over to https://www.mycarly.com/rmh/.
- Once you’re on the Carly Repair Costs homepage, you’ll be asked to input details about your car. This includes your car’s make, model, model year, fuel type, and its mileage.
- When you’re past that, it’s time to type in what symptoms your car is experiencing, where the AI could then help you diagnose the issues, and provide a suitable repair cost estimate.
- It’s important to be honest and descriptive when you’re typing out what symptoms your car has, which will help the AI provide you with more accurate results.
- After the Carly Repair Costs AI has been given ample time to diagnose those symptoms, it’ll then generate a comprehensive report which lists the 3 most likely issues affecting your car, based on those symptoms you typed in earlier.
- These 3 most likely issues are then categorised in order of their severity – ‘moderate’, ‘high’, and ‘critical’ – which is accompanied by the estimated repair costs for each one. The repair costs are even given a range to work with – from minimum to maximum – that it estimates.
The reports also provide you with additional information about the problem at hand and the repair process. These could help you with figuring out what to do next, which includes details like the underlying cause of the fault, the labour hours needed to fix it, a full list of symptoms, consequences for not fixing it in time, and more. In comparison to repair cost calculators that already exist, you don’t need to know the exact issue with your car, taking the guessing game out of diagnosing it.
