i want to pursue a career in auto mechanics, is it helpful to have a log of shit you have done?
heres my log, im just starting out
>>14138769
No but I keep every receipt for every repair I do.
>>14138769
It's not exactly useful for your career, it doesn't work like a resume.
It is useful for when you want to sell your car, but you won't impress anybody with the maintenance log of your car when finding a job.
Have a small book in my glovebox where I'll note down everything I do, kilometres and whatnot
>do you keep a log
I save receipts/invoices for major parts/repairs in a file cabinet
>will help my career
not in the slightest.
>>14138769
Full Service History means I file all the receipts away in a folder, in chronological order.
If I did it myself, there's no receipt, but I don't do anything more significant than an oil change.
>>14138769
As >>14139104 said, it's not useful for your career. Useful for you selling the car. It's also useful because it's just a good habit to be into. If you own a car long enough it can be rather easy to forget what all has been done to it and when, especially if you make any deviations from the scheduled service manual. Twice as much if you've bought a used car and are catching up it's maintenance.
Here's mine on my F-150, it's incomplete because the previous owner didn't keep very good records at all.
>>14138769
Having to do repairs. How septic is your car?
What possible value does logging everything including your own wrench turning in a fucking spreadsheet have?
You think anyone is going to believe that shit if you go to sell it?
>>14139870
I think the second part of this post >>14139568
answers your question fairly well.
>>14139870
I stared doing something like that with my last car but stopped because of laziness.
I did it mainly to keep track of how much money I was spending on it rather than using it as a proof of maintenance.
