Late last year, Tesla added a new feature called Maintenance Summary that makes it easier to keep track of your vehicle's maintenance. These are digital records that are kept with your vehicle, even after you sell it or trade it in.
Let’s take a peek at what’s included in Tesla’s maintenance summary, how to access it, and how you (or others) can add to it.
Accessing the Maintenance Summary
To access the Maintenance Summary, navigate to Controls > Service and tap the Maintenance button. Once opened, you’ll see a list of items, which varies depending on your vehicle. Next to each item, you’ll see when the maintenance was last performed and how often it’s needed.
The list provided includes common maintenance items, but doesn't cover all the maintenance your vehicle might need. Its main goal is to highlight the most frequently encountered, consumer-oriented maintenance tasks in a clear and easy-to-view way. You’ll see items such as wiper blade replacements, HEPA filter or cabin air filter replacement, and tire rotations.
You can tap on any individual item to mark it as replaced or maintenance has been performed. The user doesn’t need to give any additional input. The vehicle will automatically record that the action was performed, including the date and the vehicle's odometer reading. The next maintenance interval is automatically calculated.
If Tesla performs any of your maintenance, it will automatically be recorded in Maintenance Summary as well.
In the top right corner, you can also press the “Request Service” button. This button will pop up a menu that shows a QR code leading you to the Service Request in the Tesla App and also displays instructions on how to make a service request.
Consumer Version of Service History
Tesla’s new Maintenance Summary is essentially a consumer-oriented version of Tesla’s more robust Service History feature that’s available through Service Mode.
Service History offers additional maintenance items, and allows the user to set the mileage and date manually for each item. However, any input should be double-checked as there is no way of deleting service records. This is important so that future owners of the vehicle can easily see a vehicle’s history based on the records in Service History.
Service History also displays correction codes and who added the record to Service History, indicating whether the correction was performed by the user or Tesla themselves.
Seasonal tire swaps and tire replacements can be done through the Wheel & Tire Menu without needing to enter Service History.
This is an excellent feature for owners to be familiar with, not only to be reminded of upcoming maintenance but also to let future owners of the vehicle know the maintenance that has been performed.
