Hollisterkiid92

How do you keep maintance record if you do the work yourself? Need some ideA on this since I'm gonna do most of the work myself?

MainePorsche

I keep one of those black and white covered notebooks we used in elementary school, and it is labeled the 'The 928 Preservation Log'. The first pages have my important contact numbers (Roger, Mark, my Guy at Tirerack, Pegasus Racing, etc.) The rest is a running narrative of every SINGLE thing done to the car. Everything gets dated. All diagnostic manuevers get documented in a very detailed fashion (especially electrical matters) An example, when I dissected the power wiring harness and fabricated my own cables, schematics and detailed descriptions of what I found (and where), what I repaired, and my materials used were documented. When oil gets changed, it is documented. TB tension checks and felxplate checks as well. Receipts are in another folder. Since I do all the work this Log is important. I write my thoughts on complex matters to be considered or done next. It is a running journal. You'd be surprised on how many times I reminded myself of some small details.

Rob Edwards

Microsoft Excel spreadsheet. Everything gets recorded in a Raw Data page, then there are pages for each car.

Column headings:

Date Mileage Service/Shop LaborPrice PartsPrice PartNumber COmment/Notes

Up to 3943 lines in the raw data page....

ALKada

Have you looked at http://www.wrenchreminder.com/ . It's from one of our own Rennlisters here and is in an easy format. Give it a look. (No affiliation)

Mongo

I use a check register to record my types of maintenance and mileage. Works great so far and it's in hardcopy.

bronto

I've never truly finished wrenchreminder.com, but it does work even if it's a little clunky. I've been distracted by more pressing opportunities.

Hollisterkiid92

That's great, I'm gonna start logging stuff, I doubt I'm going to sell it anytime soon, so I want to see my progress on this baby

Wisconsin Joe

3 ring binder.
One section is a list of purchases and costs.
One is dates and mileages of PM type stuff. Oil changes, TB/WP (when I do it), stuff I want to be able to quickly reference.
One is a diary-style similar to MainePorsche above. All the restoration/repair/refurbish that I'm doing. It gets fairly detailed, and includes thoughts on future work needed. I also include any "Do it better next time" or "Don't do that again" kind of thoughts.

Last is all the receipts and install instructions that are 3-hole punched and put in the binder.

Hollisterkiid92

Do you include any pics? I think I rather have everything electronic nd the file or hyperlink. But thanks fir your ideas, I didn't even think about the receipts

pcar928fan

I use the same type of paper folder that doctors used to keep your medical records in... Oldest record is on the top on the left hand side (or a copy of the title usually) and they get more recent as you go down through that stack, and then on the right hand side they are get newer from bottom to the top of the stack so that you always just add the newest one to the top on the right hand side... Some of the charts have more than one page in them so I can do some different variations on that theme...

Very easy to flip through them and see just what has been done and who did it and its in order so you know the progression of events/problems.

Wisconsin Joe

Not in the binder. It's all hand written (except for the receipts).

Pics are taken of different things as I feel the need. Kept separately.

I'm old. I like paper records. I'm just getting used to digital imaging.

Hollisterkiid92

Itts much simpler using electronic files. Its okay as long as ur getting used to it, it might take time scanning things but it can all be put on a drive or a type of cloud to store

Tom928

I use a spreadsheet. One sheet for each maintenance task and a summary sheet with mileage and cost links. One sheet for gas, one for parts #'s, a ToDo list, torque values and a scratch pad to record measurements and such. I print these out and place them into a file that I keep the receipts from the parts vendors stapled too. Sheet layout looks just like a shop receipt with parts, work done, mileage etc.

Jadz928

I put them in a place where I'm least likely to find them. It's my own personal plausible deniability.

NoVector

3-ring binders in chronological order of all the receipts/invoices/instructions, an excel spreadsheet with all the stuff Rob Edwards mentions and the before and after pictures on a thumb drive that I loop on one of the rings in the binder. My spreadsheet also has a column for “vendor” so I can sort on it--if you ever ask, I can tell you what I bought from DEVEK or Mason or ...