The voice in your ear while your hands are under the car.
Give Cogged your registration. It works out exactly which engine you have, pulls the real figures for it, and talks you through the job — so you never put the spanner down to scroll a forum thread with your knuckles bleeding.
It refuses to guess. That is the whole product.
Ask most assistants for a head bolt torque and you will get a number. It will sound completely confident. It may also be wrong, and you will not find out until the gasket goes.
Cogged does not work that way. Every torque figure, fluid capacity, tyre pressure and tightening sequence comes out of licensed workshop data tied to your exact engine code, carrying a source. If the data is not there, Cogged tells you it does not have it and stops.
Star pattern, 180° apart. Source: manufacturer workshop manual, section 44-10.
That card appears on screen and a distinct tone plays before the number is spoken, twice, with both units — so the figure reaches you even with an impact wrench running two feet away.
What it will say when it doesn’t know: “I don’t have a verified figure for that on your car. Don’t guess it — check the manual before you tighten anything.”
Built for a real garage floor
Your exact car, not a family
A registration gives us make, engine size, fuel and MOT history — including the mileage from the last test, which is what drives every service interval. Where the variant is ambiguous, Cogged asks you to read the engine code off the block rather than picking one.
Hands-free, properly
Speech in, speech out, tuned for compressors and impact wrenches. Steps arrive one at a time and never auto-advance on a timer, because you might be under the car and stuck.
Knows what’s due
MOT and tax expiry, mileage-based servicing, and open safety recalls on your vehicle — with reminders before they bite rather than a fine afterwards.
Parts, three ways
When a job needs a part you get three options — quick and local, genuine, or upgraded — filtered to what actually fits your car. We earn a commission, we say so, and we never invent a reason the cheap one is unsafe.
It stops you before it helps you
Before any step that puts you under a raised car, into a brake system, near fuel or across a hybrid’s orange cabling, Cogged reads the hazard aloud and then will not continue until you have answered for it.
- CogSafety check before we go on. A trolley jack can bleed down or kick out sideways. Stands cannot.
- CogTell me — are the stands under the pinch welds, both sides, and is the car sitting solid?
- YouYeah yeah, all good.
- CogQuick one — how many stands, and what are they sitting on?
That second question is not Cogged being difficult. An answer that arrives faster than the job physically takes is a reflex, not a check — so the question changes to one a “yes” cannot answer. If you’ve actually looked, it costs you three seconds.
Not finished yet
Cogged is in development and is not available to download. The honest reason for the wait: guided procedures are only as good as the workshop data underneath them, and that data is licensed, not scraped. We would rather launch with a narrow set of jobs backed by real manufacturer figures than a wide set backed by guesses.