· Ignition
Dashes first, then the numbers.
Plug the adapter in once. When CarPlay connects, Tachwire finds it, recognises the car from its answers and VIN, and each tile fills as its unit answers. Nothing to press.
For iPhone and CarPlay
Oil, gearbox, boost and revs on a screen you lay out yourself in CarPlay — on a BMW and MINI, from the engine and gearbox units themselves; on most other cars, the standard OBD readings they report.
Your carChangeConfirmedEngine already drivenNo drives yetStandard readings only

Counted from the drive logs we hold — no names, no VINs. Logs live 30 days on the server, so this is a floor. 11.09.2026–04.11.2026
Your car
Make, model, generation and version. Each one says what the app reads from it and whether a drive has confirmed it.
Model, body code, engine or year. We never ask for a VIN.
Already driven with Tachwire
BMW X5 45eG05 · 2018–2026Blue Ridge Mountain · launch colour383 drives
BMW X6 40iG06 · 2019–2026Isle of Man Green · launch colour217 drives
BMW 3 Series 316iF30 · 2012–2019Mediterranean Blue · launch colour52 drives
BMW 5 Series 530iG30 · 2016–2024Phytonic Blue · launch colour50 drives
BMW X3 20dG01 · 2017–2024Sophisto Grey30 drives
BMW 6 Series 640dF12 · 2011–2018Mediterranean Blue20 drivesAlready driven with Tachwire
BMW26 confirmed versionsAudi1 confirmed versionsMazda1 confirmed versionsMINI1 confirmed versionsProfiles ready, no drives yet
AcuraChryslerDodgeFordHondaJaguarJeepLand RoverLexusMercedes-BenzPorscheRAMSEAT / CUPRAToyotaVolkswagenŠkodaStandard readings only
AlpineRenaultOn the car’s screen
· Ignition
Plug the adapter in once. When CarPlay connects, Tachwire finds it, recognises the car from its answers and VIN, and each tile fills as its unit answers. Nothing to press.
· Warm-up
Oil, coolant and gearbox count down to ready, and the screen says how long and up to what revs: below 50° oil, 3,000 rpm. Thresholds are your car’s own.
· On the road
Gear, speed, oil pressure and the tyres, each from the unit that measures it; the screen updates twice a second. If oil pressure drops, a voice says so — in eleven languages, made on the phone.
· Road cameras
Speed cameras, average-speed sections, low-emission zones and Italy’s ZTL gates — said out loud where the law allows it, with a window on the car’s screen. Off until you turn it on.
· Closed track
Laps time themselves at the line; the gap lives on its own page, never on the map. Records count only full-throttle runs.
· Parked
Every reading on one time line, a verdict with its reason — oil warmed in 3 minutes, usually 16 to 20 — and a 15-second video to share. Sending a drive is your choice; the route is cut out on the phone first.
Colours mean one thing everywhere: blue — cold, wait with the revs green — ready yellow — worth a look red — alarm, the only one that blinks
The app
Real screens of the app, with demo data. The car in its colour, every drive judged against your car’s usual, the week at a glance.






On a closed track
Track guidance on the car’s screen: the map heading up, one turn at a time, and where you braked on your best lap — the bright zone is the next one.
Laps, runs and track guidance are for a closed track only. The circuit drawn here is made up.
In motion
Real screens of the app, in the car and on the phone, playing simulated data.
Share
A flyover of the route with the speed, the gear and the power at each moment — saved to Photos, sized for Stories, or straight to Instagram and TikTok.
On this page: a demo drive on the dark grid — no real road.
Privacy
Your route is cut out on the phone.
No sign-up, no ads. The app works the moment it’s installed.
A drive leaves the phone only if you turn sending on — encrypted, with latitude, longitude and heading removed first. Only laps on a track keep their positions. Kept 30 days.
The voice is made on the phone, and the camera lists live there: once a country is downloaded, alerts need no signal, and your position isn’t sent to find them: only which country’s list to download is asked for.
Get started
iPhone with iOS 18.4 or later, and CarPlay, wired or wireless. No account, no ads.
No car nearby? Choose “No car yet” on the first screen and look around every screen on a demo drive.
The phone app opens and shows past drives, but it reads the car only while CarPlay is connected.
Most likely, if it was built from 2008 on: most cars since then speak CAN on the OBD port and get the standard readings — revs, speed, coolant and intake temperature, and more where the car reports it — with the tiles, warnings, laps and runs. BMW gives the most: the G-series and F-series are recognised from the VIN and confirmed model by model on real drives. MINI: the John Cooper Works Clubman (F54) is confirmed on its drives. Audi A3 (8Y) and Mazda3 (BP) are confirmed by drives too. Other Audi and Mazda models, and Mercedes-Benz, Porsche, Ford, Toyota, Lexus, RAM, Dodge, Jeep, Chrysler, Land Rover, Jaguar, Volkswagen, Škoda, SEAT / CUPRA, Lamborghini, Bentley and Honda, get trial profiles: the app asks them, or some of their models, for more, and a reading counts as working only once a drive log has shown it. The cars page says what each one reads.
No. It only reads live values. No fault codes, coding or service resets.
Not in the App Store version yet. The DRG70 works in the TestFlight builds, where with a good fix it times your runs; it comes to the App Store once testers’ drives have proven it.
Nothing about your drives unless you turn sending on — encrypted, with the route removed (only laps on a track keep their positions). Crash reports turn off with one switch.
No — iPhone and CarPlay only.