Home Service Records

[Col]

Just looking to find out the consensus for keeping service records when you carry out your own servicing. I completed an annual service last year and kept all the receipts for parts etc and filled in a copy of the BMW maintenance schedule.
I was wondering, do you guys fill out the service record book and sign it off yourself or do you leave it blank. I feel that I should fill it out as it would indicate to the next owner ( if I ever sell it ) that it was carried out, along with other evidence of course.
I have a GS911 so can carry out all that is necessary on the GS.

I'm due to carry out the next one in a few weeks time so let me know what you do.

Cheers

Col

 

[adventuredon]

I fill it out if i do it. Occasionally i do..

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[yamasaki]

Yep, did it for my cars when I did my own servicing. kept a folder with all receipts. Going to get the bike shop serviced this time but seriously thinking about a GS911 in the future.

 

[Smug]

Fill it out and stamp it myself.

 

[G5RJO]

Print out a GS-911 report as well. That's what I do.

It gives a date and mileage as well as showing all fault codes cleared..

Roger.

 

[NZRalphy]

Fill it out and sign it. I also cover it in notes for other stuff i do that isn't on the sheet.

 

[deangsadv]

Iit will have no service history when you come to sell it, so why bother.

 

[DervMan]

Iit will have no service history when you come to sell it, so why bother.

Of course it will, assuming the receipts are kept and history is well documented. What you'd save in home servicing, which is a doddle on the boxer, you'll easily see back on any PX price drop due to no dealer history. I've PX'd home serviced bikes twice now and no noticeable effect on price but they were old bikes. But I'd saved thousands on dealer servicing costs.

 

[Davey B]

Iit will have no service history when you come to sell it, so why bother.

I i was looking at say a 6 yr old 30k bike and one had 5 dealer stamps and nothing else and the other had 1 or 2 dealer stamps followed by meticulous record keeping by an obviously caring owner, I'd go with that bike every time...

 

[Wapping]

Fill it in the book if you feel like it, don't if you don't. Can't really decide? Then fill in every other space. It's your book, your bike, your future sale, so do whatever you like to maximise what you think will give you the greatest pleasure and the best financial return. You could even take a Bulldog printing set and create yourself a suitably sized stamp or use a different coloured pen each time, which woukd look really great (or maybe not).

 

[Wapping]

I i was looking at say a 6 yr old 30k bike and one had 5 dealer stamps and nothing else and the other had
1 or 2 dealer stamps followed by meticulous record keeping by an obviously caring owner, I'd go with that bike every time...

Judging by the number of earlier bodges that bods encounter and / or are recommended on this site alone, that may always not be the best course of action.

Buy the bike that you are most comfortable with. Lots of bits of paper handed over from a bod with grease under his fingernails, might well mean nothing more that the fellow hasn't got the wit to use a scrubbing brush, which might suggest that he's really not that proficient with a hammer or micrometer, either.

 

[Davey B]

I'm fairly sure I'd be able to spot the difference between 'meticulous' and 'lots of bits of paper' but I know what you mean. It'd be a whole package deal, bike, paperwork, garage setting and the person selling. Pretty sure I'd be able to suss it out

 

[IrishGaucho]

I don't have the book for the bike, but I do keep all my receipts and track of the service that I do at home. I don't have the GS911 so I do have to go to the dealer to clear the service light and they'll do a free check as well, so that's at least something. They charge me penuts to clear it and do the general overlook and cert of the status of the bike yearly.

But yeah... I agree with the above that while it will no push me away from a good find if it doesn't have the paper work (as it did with my current bike which was an unwanted trade for a car dealer and he had no clue, but the bike was in great shape) but if it has some track records of TLC, it does add up a little bit.


Cheers,
Rami

 

[Bendy toy]

I cant be bothered neatly filing bits of paper so that's my bike fecked. I'll have to follow Wapping's advice and rent a posh garage while I'm at it.

 

[Steptoe]

Fill it in when you sell it.

 

[UturnTony]

Fill it in, writing in what's been done as well as keeping a full record of any work done in another place.
I do this for no other reason other than for my own benefit as my memory isn't so good.