The voice in your ear while your hands are under the car.
You’re on your back under the sill, hands black, and the phone is two feet away on the floor. Tell Cogged your registration and it knows exactly which engine you’ve got — then talks you through the job out loud, and gives you the torque figure at the moment you need it.
Straight from DVLA. We don’t store your registration and it never appears in the web address — how we handle it.
Star pattern, 180° apart. Source: manufacturer workshop manual, section 44-10.
Illustrative — not a figure for your car. Do not use it on one.
Torque figures you can actually tighten to
You know the routine. Three forum threads, three different figures, none of them from anyone who has seen your engine code. So you pick the middle one, tighten it, and spend the rest of the week wondering.
Ask a general AI assistant instead and it will give you a number in a confident voice. It might be the right one. You will find out when the head gasket goes.
Cogged gives you one figure, in Nm and lb-ft, tied to your exact engine — from licensed workshop data, with the manual and section it came from. It appears on screen and a tone plays before it’s spoken, twice, so it reaches you over an impact wrench running two feet away.
And when it hasn’t got one, it says so: “I don’t have a verified figure for that on your car. Don’t guess it — check the manual before you tighten anything.” You never have to wonder whether the voice is certain or just fluent.
Built for the way you actually work
It knows your car, not your model range
Your registration gives it the engine, the fuel, the trim and the mileage off your last MOT — so the bolt, the interval and the part are the ones for your car. Where a plate can’t settle the variant, it asks you to read the code off the block instead of picking one and hoping.
You never touch the phone
Speak to it over a compressor and it hears you. Steps come one at a time, and nothing moves on until you say so — because the app has no idea you’re halfway under the car with a socket in your teeth.
Nothing sneaks up on you
MOT and tax dates, servicing that follows your real mileage, and any open safety recall on your vehicle. You hear about them in time to sort them, not after the fine lands.
Parts that fit, three ways
Need a part and you get three: on the shelf locally, genuine, or the better one — all filtered to what actually fits. We earn a commission and we tell you so. We won’t invent a reason the cheap one is dangerous.
The only one that will stop you
Ask a general assistant to talk you through a job under a car balanced on a trolley jack, and it will. Cogged reads you the hazard first, and then it will not go on until you’ve answered for it properly.
- 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?
If you’ve looked, that costs you three seconds. If you haven’t, it’s the question that gets you back on your feet before you find out the hard way. No lecture, no telling you off, and no setting that turns it off — including telling it you’re a professional.
Tell us the job you’d fix first
Cogged isn’t on the app stores yet. Every job we add has to be backed by real manufacturer data before it goes in, so the library grows one procedure at a time — and we’re building it in the order people ask for.
Email us the car and the job that’s sitting on your drive right now. It goes on the list, and you’ll be among the first in when there’s something to try.