Find a Subaru Service Shop in Thailand: A Small Tool That Shows Where Each Detail Came From

If you drive a Subaru outside the big cities, finding a service shop usually means piecing it together: a dealer page here, a map search there, a phone call to find out whether anyone is open. We built a small web app to shorten that: subaru.simplico.net.

It does one job. You tell it where you are, and it lists Subaru service shops near that spot, nearest first. It runs in your phone or laptop browser, and there is no account to create.

How to use it

1. Open the page and choose Use my current location, or type a place name such as "Chiang Mai" into the search box.
2. Look at the map and the list. Your starting point is marked on the map, and the shops appear as pins. Below the map, each shop is a card, sorted by distance.
3. Call or navigate. Tap the phone number to call, or Open in Google Maps to get directions.

The distances shown are straight-line, not driving distance. A shop that is 6 km away on the map can be a longer drive, so treat the number as a way to compare shops, not as a trip time.

Switch the language at the top: Thai, English, Japanese or Chinese.

The part we care most about: every card says where its details came from

A list of shops is easy to build. A list you can trust is harder, because shop details change and different sources disagree. So each card carries labels instead of pretending to be certain:

• Official dealer, or not stated. Shops that come from the Subaru Thailand service-centre page are marked as official dealers. Shops that come from elsewhere are marked "Not stated whether this is an official dealer". We don’t guess.
• Not verified. Every card we looked at carried a "Not verified" label, even the official dealers. Read it as a reminder: the details come from a listing, so confirm them with a call.
• Source and freshness. Each card names its source (Subaru Thailand, Google, or OpenStreetMap) and shows when the data was fetched. Where a source was checked again, it says when it was confirmed.
• Opening hours only when a source states them. If no source lists hours, the card shows none. It doesn’t invent them.
• "Phone: not listed" when no source has a number, rather than a blank that looks like a bug.
• "Also listed by OpenStreetMap" when more than one source knows about the same shop.

You can also tap the star on a card to save a shop to a Saved tab. Saved shops are kept on your own device. Nothing is sent to us until you search.

In a quick test we searched "Chiang Mai". The list included an official dealer in the city, a couple of independent garages that came from Google, an entry that came only from OpenStreetMap with no phone number, and an official dealer in Lampang, much farther away. That mix is the point: the card tells you which kind of listing you’re looking at.

Where the data comes from

The About tab lists the sources:

• The public Subaru Thailand service-centre page
• OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL)
• Google Places

The app’s own notes say shop details "may be out of date" and ask you to call to confirm before you drive. We agree. Treat the app as a fast way to find candidates, and the phone call as the final check.

Privacy, in plain terms

• Your location is used only to find shops. The About page says it is not stored or logged.
• Place searches are answered by our own server first. Only if it finds nothing is the text you typed sent to Google Places, after a quick human check by Cloudflare Turnstile. We don’t log it.
• Usage statistics are off unless you say yes. If you allow Google Analytics, it counts which screens are opened, never your places, routes, plans or location. You can change this any time in About.

What it doesn’t do

• It doesn’t book a service. It helps you find and contact the shop. You arrange the appointment yourself.
• It doesn’t guarantee a shop is open or still operating. Hours are shown only when a source gives them, and they can be out of date.
• It doesn’t rate or review shops. It tells you what each source says, and nothing more.

Tell us what’s wrong

A directory is only as good as its corrections. If a number is wrong, a shop has closed or moved, or one is missing, tell us:

• Email: hello@simplico.net
• LINE: iiitum1984

Please include the shop name and what’s wrong. We’d rather fix one entry properly than leave a stale list.

Who built this

Subaru Shops is a small project from Simplico, a software engineering studio based in Thailand. Our day job is larger systems, such as EV charging management platforms, but we like building small tools that answer one question well.

FAQ

Do I need to install anything or create an account?
No. Open subaru.simplico.net in your browser.

Does it find only official Subaru dealers?
No. It also lists independent garages and entries from OpenStreetMap. Each card says whether it is an official dealer or whether that isn’t stated.

Are the distances driving distances?
No. They are straight-line distances from the point you searched.

Why does a shop show no phone number or no opening hours?
Because none of our sources lists one. We show "not listed" rather than guess.

Is my location stored?
The About page states that your location is used only to find shops and is not stored or logged.

Can I save shops for later?
Yes. Tap the star on a card. Saved shops are kept on your own device.

Which languages does it support?
Thai, English, Japanese and Chinese.

How do I report a wrong detail?
Email hello@simplico.net or message LINE iiitum1984 with the shop name and the correction.