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How can I use AI tools to help me diagnose issues with my car?
~ Anonymous
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Hello,
This can actually work surprisingly well.
The first step is getting your vehicle’s manual in a digital format like a PDF. Well, technically the first step is figuring out the year, make, and model of your vehicle. Then you can search for the manual online.
Once you have a digital version of the owner’s manual, here are a couple of options for how you can use it with AI tools to help you diagnose issues that come up -
- Use NotebookLM (notebooklm.google.com) - upload the owner’s manual as a source, and then you can ask whatever questions you have. It will scan the manual and use it to answer your questions.
- Use ChatGPT (chatgpt.com)
- Option 1 - Attach the owner’s manual to the prompt and ask your questions
- Option 2 - Create a custom GPT and use the manual as a source document
In some cases, you can also take a picture of something related to your issue (i.e., a dashboard light, etc.) and add that to the prompt to give the tools more context.
Hope that helps
Damien
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