How to Build a Car Maintenance Calendar from Make, Model, and Mileage
Service calendars invent recall campaigns. Quote the owner schedule. Leave prices UNKNOWN.
The matching generator is the Car Maintenance Calendar from Make, Model, Mileage, and Climate (No Invented Recalls or Prices) (Car Maintenance Calendar From Make Model Mileage And Climate No Invented Recalls Or Prices) prompt. Browse related cards in the PromptDig library (Browse more prompts). When a filled run survives, share the version you actually use (Share a prompt).
Lock make, model, mileage, climate
Build a 12-month service calendar from make/model/mileage/climate and a pasted owner-schedule excerpt. No invented NHTSA recalls, prices, or dealer quotes. Not a home maintenance checklist, not a bike commute kit. Start by filling Inputs, not by asking the model to remember last week's run. If a field is blank, write NONE or NOT IN INPUTS and leave it blank through Generate. The card is built so the model cannot honestly invent a number, owner, URL, or command that you did not paste.
Paste these fields before you hit run:
Make model year: [Vehicle]
Current mileage: [Miles]
Climate / region notes: [Climate]
Owner-schedule excerpt paste: [Schedule]
Words I must not use: [Banned]
What I must never invent: [Never]
Output format: [Format]
Language: [Lang]
Recall list (or NONE): [Recalls]
Price policy (NONE): [Prices]
That inventory is the honesty ledger. Anything that does not appear there is forbidden in the draft. If you catch yourself adding a nice-to-have after the run, you are no longer using the card. You are ghostwriting. Put the extra fact in Inputs and run again.
Tasks only from the pasted schedule
Generate is numbered on purpose. Do not skip a step because the first paragraph looked done. The early steps exist to stop later prose from smuggling claims.
Walk the Generate list in order:
- Honesty ledger: Vehicle, Miles, Climate, Schedule nouns, Recalls, Prices, Lang.
- 12-month calendar table months 1-12 with tasks only from Schedule + Climate adjustments stated qualitatively.
- Mileage triggers from Schedule only; if interval missing write INTERVAL NOT IN INPUTS.
- Recalls: if NONE write NO RECALLS IN INPUTS (do not invent NHTSA).
- Prices: if NONE write PRICES NONE.
- Climate notes applied only as qualitative timing shifts from Climate.
- Refuse: inventing recalls, inventing prices, home maintenance checklist, bike commute kit.
- Compliance pass: Banned and Never. Format as Format. Gaps list of five.
If a step asks for a version lock, quote the version from Inputs in the output. If a step asks for a refuse list, keep the refuse list in the published artifact, not in a sidebar you delete. Reviewers should see what the model was not allowed to do.
Leave recalls and prices UNKNOWN
Most failures are the same shape: a missing field gets a confident fill. A conversion rate appears. A Gradle task appears. A flash point appears. A caption appears on a job that asked for slide text only. Your review is to search the draft for numbers, names, and commands, then grep Inputs. No match means cut.
Honor the constraints as hard stops, not vibes:
- 12-month car service calendar from Vehicle+Miles+Climate+Schedule only.
- Never invent NHTSA recalls or prices.
- Not home maintenance or bike kit cards.
- No emojis.
When the card says not legal advice, not certification, not an exam dump, or not a caption engine, that sentence belongs at the top of the output. Deleting it to look more finished is how you inherit risk.
Refuse dealer quotes and NHTSA invent
Finish with the compliance pass the prompt already asks for. Quote the banned-word hits. Cut them. Print character counts when the job has a cap. Print word counts when the job has a budget. List gaps as gaps. Five missing facts are more useful than one smooth paragraph.
Tags on the card (car maintenance calendar, service schedule from mileage, no invented recalls or prices) are a reminder of the job shape, not an invitation to wander into a neighboring cluster. If you need a different surface, open a different PromptDig card rather than stretching this one.
Fill the card, then run
Replace every bracket. Run on ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini. Read the ledger first, then the artifact. If the model invents a commit, KPI, DOI, PEL, bid, or logo, discard the run. Tighten Inputs. Run again. Share the filled card that survived, not the first draft that sounded done.