Car reminders: rego, licence, insurance, servicing

Car admin is a small pile of dates with disproportionate consequences. Miss a service and the car grumbles; miss rego and you’re driving unregistered — which usually also means uninsured.

The dates worth tracking

• Rego renewal. The big one. Enter the date from your renewal notice; the app warns you two weeks out and again three days before.
• Driving licence. Renewals come around every 5 or 10 years — rarely often enough to remember. Enter the expiry printed on the card.
• Insurance renewal. The reminder isn’t just “pay it” — it’s your annual chance to compare before it auto-renews.
• Servicing. Six- or twelve-monthly logbook services keep the warranty and the car happy.
• Tyres. A monthly pressure-and-tread check takes five minutes at the servo.
• Roadworthy / safety inspection. Only some states require periodic inspections; enter yours if it applies.

You enter the dates — here’s why

Registration records are personal government data, and Home Heads Up doesn’t ask you to hand over credentials to any government service. You type the date from your own renewal notice once; the app handles every year after that. Simple, private, reliable.

Set it once

Each template asks for one date and repeats yearly (or at the cycle you choose), with advance notices tuned to how much lead time each job actually needs.

Home Heads Up is a free app for Australian households — no ads, no account. It sends the reminders described here automatically.