Same here. Ive been using small spiral notebooks for every car I have owned since the 1970's. Every tank of gas, fluid changes and additions, wiper blades, repairs, etc. is logged. It is not much effort and it really helps jog the memory. It also helps when I sell to prove to potential buyers that the car was properly serviced.
Maintenance record keeping
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My old Volvo dealer use to do that. People were lying their butts off about when the oil was last changed. The old Turbos had 3750 mile required oil changes. These idiots would blow up a turbo and try to pull a warranty. It all started when some woman cooked her turbo and when they tore it off the car it was totally sludged up. They popped the valve cover and Ditto sludge everywhere. She got her oil done sparsely at the dealer like every 8000 to 10,000 miles. What she did was get a local garage to give her phony receipts for supposed oil changes in between the ones she got at the dealer. Volvo had to eat the Turbo. The Dealer knew that was the same filter that was on the car the last time they changed it but they couldn't prove it.
So they started to write the date and mileage on every filter they installed with a permanent marker. Solved many warranty problems, also shut down a lot of BSer's and liars.
Since I'm a computer geek I've been using Access for my records for a while.
I have a separate table for each vehicles repair records and one for the MPG. Additionaly, I've constructed queries that allow me to determine things like cost per mile, yearly or monthly mileage.
Bogatyr
I have a separate table for each vehicles repair records and one for the MPG. Additionaly, I've constructed queries that allow me to determine things like cost per mile, yearly or monthly mileage.
Bogatyr
I have an Excel spreadsheet for each of our vehicles. Each spreadsheet uses tabs for each group of data to track. Tab 1 is a list of fillups, with date, total miles, trip miles, and calculated mpg. Tab 2 is a auto-updated graph of this info. Tab 3 is a service log with date, miles, and type of service. And tab 4 is turning into the UOA data area.
I got into the habit of writing the miles, etc. on the receipt the pump gives me. When I empty my wallet at home, I put the sale data into Quicken and the fillup data into Excel. Works good
I got into the habit of writing the miles, etc. on the receipt the pump gives me. When I empty my wallet at home, I put the sale data into Quicken and the fillup data into Excel. Works good
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