[jonmyrlebailey]

Many reputable, large car maintenance service have been doing this for years. Just open an online account with them and you will be able to see the records of all services they performed on your car. They also report this information to Carfax. If you service a car at a dealer, the manufacturer keeps the records and you can access them via your Owners portal. All manufacturers have been doing it for at least past 20 years. The issue is smaller mom-and-pop shops that don't keep electronic records.

My car has never been taken to a dealer. So, I keep paper records the old-fashioned way.

 

[jonmyrlebailey]

i do while the car is under warranty. it looks good if you resell the car too but i don't think it's usually necessarily the utmost importance when you service or maintain your own vehicle.

I've seen people keep every receipt from every job for everything they do to the car. Even filling the gas tank or replacing batteries, alignments too.

and in those situations the owner might still not have a clue as to why their car does xyz and is selling it because those receipts proved worthless in this case.

one time i had mechanical failure of a transmission with 400 miles on it. the shop didn't ask for any papers but at 4000 miles, same car had a turbo charger go bad out of no where. The stealership asked for proof of oil changes. i had 1. gave them the receipt and they said thanks and replaced the turbo under warranty. same turbo blew again just outta warranty. but for different reasons. a reciept from the first time only served as reminder for myself what a POS car that was, from new no less!

Keeping gas receipts as "service records"? Putting gasoline in an automobile is not fixing anything broken. Gas is energy, food for the machine. An oil change is preventive medicine. An engine replacement is open heart surgery.

Your POS car could not have possibly been a Toyota product!