Case Study: Bumper achieves proactive vehicle maintenance alerts with Smartcar

How Bumper uses Smartcar to power its predictive maintenance

Bumper, a company building tools for buying, selling, and monitoring used vehicles, needed a stable and accurate source of real-time vehicle telematics data for its predictive maintenance dashboard. To avoid cumbersome aftermarket hardware and deliver timely maintenance alerts, Bumper evaluated software options and chose Smartcar’s car API to power its connected vehicle experience.

Using Smartcar, Bumper pulls vehicle attributes, odometer readings, fuel tank levels, and tire pressure to surface proactive maintenance suggestions and status updates in its Bumper Connect dashboard. The integration helped Bumper improve the user experience and delivered measurable impact: vehicle owners who connected through Smartcar showed a 19% better retention rate than users who did not.

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Alessandro Mannino

Director of Product