Has anyone used Carfax Car Care? I signed up for it a while back because it provides service history on your vehicles that you've registered to their Car Care service-- any service history that was ever logged into Carfax shows up, even those that predate when you bought it. I don't think it will show you the entire history like accidents and such, unless you purchase a vehicle report.
But I found it useful for looking up maintenance history, some of which go many years back, well before I owned the vehicles. Of course it's incomplete because not all shops submit data to Carfax.
The service allows you to enter in repair and maintenance history. There's even a checkbox for DIY services, and all the usual maintenance / repairs you can submit as DIY.
My questions is---- does the DIY stuff I report to Carfax via this app/website (I use it on my PC) actually get reported when some potential buyer down the road pulls a Carfax? If so, it makes sense for me to be religious about entering my oil changes and all other maintenance/repairs into the system. But a half hour into data entry, I realized if DIY services are not reported, I'm wasting my time. I already use Fuelly and SimplyAuto (both mobile apps) to log all my vehicle data (repairs, maintenance, fill-ups) and give me reminders.
To truly test this, I'd need to actually pay for a Carfax on my own vehicle. Not gonna happen at $39.99. OT, but Carfax must be literally raking in the dough, their price for reports has gone up nearly 10 fold since I last used them.
But I found it useful for looking up maintenance history, some of which go many years back, well before I owned the vehicles. Of course it's incomplete because not all shops submit data to Carfax.
The service allows you to enter in repair and maintenance history. There's even a checkbox for DIY services, and all the usual maintenance / repairs you can submit as DIY.
My questions is---- does the DIY stuff I report to Carfax via this app/website (I use it on my PC) actually get reported when some potential buyer down the road pulls a Carfax? If so, it makes sense for me to be religious about entering my oil changes and all other maintenance/repairs into the system. But a half hour into data entry, I realized if DIY services are not reported, I'm wasting my time. I already use Fuelly and SimplyAuto (both mobile apps) to log all my vehicle data (repairs, maintenance, fill-ups) and give me reminders.
To truly test this, I'd need to actually pay for a Carfax on my own vehicle. Not gonna happen at $39.99. OT, but Carfax must be literally raking in the dough, their price for reports has gone up nearly 10 fold since I last used them.