Service History Issues
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MarkMas
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Phil H
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Daft innit?I would be VERY willing to sell you a ring binder for £90!
It's a bit like people buying 180mph cars to use where the legal maximum is 70mph, and where they spend the same time waiting at traffic lights as a Smart car.
Keeps me 'appy though:
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Ahem 185...Daft innit?
It's a bit like people buying 180mph cars to use where the legal maximum is 70mph, and where they spend the same time waiting at traffic lights as a Smart car.
Keeps me 'appy though:
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midlifecrisis
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My first Maserati came with all the paperwork of its service history. All of which, I read through before committing. I knew exactly of its provenance and the fact that it suffered from hydrolock and the engine was replaced under warranty. You can't get that information from stamps in a book. Further to this, I've seen cars with dealership stamps in the book but with rotten subframes. Therefore if I'm presented with any car that says FDSH but no paperwork then it hasn't been looked after in my mind.
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Exactly, Midlife. So did mine have every receipt and service itemised including its original purchase receipt and extras in Kensington. Original owner quite distinguished and well known. Nothing stinted. Even so, I knew there needed to be a war chest, and was right
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very similar to my status...
If you are worried about a fake paperwork, it would happen with physical receipts as well if people really tried...?
You are right that the new digital system wouldn't solve this problem 100％, but probably I am not trying to solve this one.
This problem exists despite of if it's in physical or digital format. Hope I am making sense?
Catman on above mentioned possible fake service paperwork, I think you are having the same concern I presume.
However being digital or not won't fully solve this problem at the moment.
But if all the service history on this platform is 'verified', you wouldbe happy to use it?
midlifecrisis
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Have you noticed that today's office requires two, three or four screens? That's because we use multiple systems/programs/applications to compare information from each screen in order to make a decision or confirm information.
Similarly, various bits of paper do the same job when you're buying the car. You put the receipts in order and compare them sequentially and build up the history from there. You can tell if a receipt is fake or not consistent. Hence, why I think paper is best. Even if emailed. I gave the buyer, the ring binder of its history and talked him through it as I wanted to show that I had nothing to hide. He was impressed. It also helped to sell the car.
Similarly, various bits of paper do the same job when you're buying the car. You put the receipts in order and compare them sequentially and build up the history from there. You can tell if a receipt is fake or not consistent. Hence, why I think paper is best. Even if emailed. I gave the buyer, the ring binder of its history and talked him through it as I wanted to show that I had nothing to hide. He was impressed. It also helped to sell the car.
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All my six files are kept immaculately with every document in it's own clear wallet. All MOT's together, all services together all part purchases together all in date order. You get the idea. So easy to maintain and to view.
MarkMas
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Can I send you a couple of boxes of paper to sort out, please?
RoaryRati
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So do I (although I get a bit confused when two different names are used for the same thing)
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Having not really grown up in the computer era or environment I'm old school and like the original paper invoices and actually enjoy reading through them.
Straight away as Martin said you can see how well the car has been looked after.
Having worked for several dealers including Maserati the number of people who just come in for an oil and filter change to get the official stamp in the book is alarming.
Straight away as Martin said you can see how well the car has been looked after.
Having worked for several dealers including Maserati the number of people who just come in for an oil and filter change to get the official stamp in the book is alarming.
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This is another one that already exists:
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I guess the issue with all of them (a bit like Photobucket and Flickr or the media streaming apps which went out of business) is that your information is only collated so long as the website exists. It can easily disappear at the drop of a hat.
Unless you are offering some way to authenticate the user inputted documents or can link up all garages (both main dealer and independent), I cannot see what you are offering is differentiated from existing, free, offerings in the market.
And these days with scanners Acrobat and Photoshop, it is too easy to fake digital or hard copy documents.
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I guess the issue with all of them (a bit like Photobucket and Flickr or the media streaming apps which went out of business) is that your information is only collated so long as the website exists. It can easily disappear at the drop of a hat.
Unless you are offering some way to authenticate the user inputted documents or can link up all garages (both main dealer and independent), I cannot see what you are offering is differentiated from existing, free, offerings in the market.
And these days with scanners Acrobat and Photoshop, it is too easy to fake digital or hard copy documents.
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This is amazing, but that's you putting in the effort to make it work.
What if there is one platform can help all car owners to achieve this level of archive with minimum effort?
Would you support this?
Exactly my point to Phil as above, if we can build something to help every car owners to achieve this level of archive, isn't it valuable?