I log every hour
I spend on my car.
UpLate Garage is one person, one garage, and one project car — documenting a project build honestly, to the minute and the dollar.
It started with a question I couldn't answer
Someone asked what the car had cost me. I said "about ten grand?" — and then realised I had no idea whether that was close. Not roughly. At all. The receipts were in three places, the hours were nowhere, and the tools had quietly folded themselves into the parts bill.
Every build thread I read had the same hole in it. Plenty of adjectives — quick job, cheap fix, a weekend's work — and almost no numbers anybody could check. So this site exists to be the opposite: if a figure appears here, a timer or a receipt produced it. That rule is why so much of it currently reads zero.
The real one.
MY99 WRX.
// always a bit too cold
Honesty isn't a value here. It's the data model.
Four rules decide what is allowed to be called a number. They are enforced by how the data is stored, not by good intentions on a Sunday night.
One person
I work on the car after hours and write it up the same way I log it. There is no team, no sponsor and no content calendar — which is why the posting rate is honest rather than impressive.
The app came out of the same problem. I needed something that could take a measurement without me stopping work to give it one.
