Blog

5 Ways To Save Money As An Uber Driver

Like the nearest other Uber driver, you work hard to support your family and make a living. But at the end of the day, you feel that various car expenses and taxes eat up most of your earnings. A familiar scenario? Then why not enlist the help of intelligent technology such as an OBD2 scanner? Especially […]

How Can A Car Logbook App Help Me Save Fuel?

The best car log book apps promote efficient driving because they can collect real-time data and influence your behaviour as you drive. Extensive road testing shows that an app such as GOFAR, possibly the best car logbook app can save you up to $30 a week, or around 10 cents for every litre of fuel used. Read on […]

Commute Greener. Use a Fuel Tracker and Save More

If you’re green but also a daily car commuter you may think there’s nothing you can do to drive greener.  You couldn’t be more wrong – here are 5 tips that will save you fuel and money, while reducing your carbon footprint. GOFAR can also be your fuel tracker! 1. You can’t manage what you can’t measure […]

Make Your Car Smarter With GOFAR Trends

WANT ALL YOUR CAR DATA ON YOUR PHONE? Well, now you've got it.  Distance, fuel cost, economy, fill ups, driving score and speed. It's been great to track all my metrics easily on my phone using GOFAR - apart from that last one, speed.  I still cannot believe how slow my average speed is driving around [...]

Braking Bad (on Fridays)? Use an OBD2 Scanner

Whilst the Internet of Things is sometimes over hyped, fundamentally it lets us measure things better. If you measure it, you can manage it. I was inspired by this article on Australian car accidents in which Robert McDonald, the safety guru who heads of IAG’s Road Safety Centre revealed that Friday was a bad day for accidents. Our […]

Award-Winning GOFAR App is Now On Android

You heard that right, GOFAR is… Here’s how to get set up GOFAR on Android. First, and this is important, please DO download the app. Don’t just plug GOFAR in and start driving! Next, follow the instructions on the app to set up the device Once installed, the device needs to calibrate – this happens automatically […]

ISO Happy!

When we went live we supported pretty much all petrol cars built since 2008. Technically that meant cars that worked on the more modern CAN-BUS protocol. One great thing though about our product GOFAR is that, unlike your car, we can update it as we learn and improve. So, we’ve just released an upgrade, which has […]