Have any of you developed a template for car maint. logging which you would be willing to talk about or share?
Perhaps there is a commercial program which you could recommend for the MB enthusist?

DanielW

Daniel
I have been using a spreadsheet for the last two years. It is simple but gets the job done.
Sheet 1 I enter Date, Mileage, Gallons, Cost
It gives MPG, Average MPG, Cost/Gal, Cost/Mile
I then enter any notes (Brand of fuel, octaine, etc)

Sheet 2
I enter repair cost, maintaince, etc

Sheet 3 gives total fuel used, total maintaince, etc

The file is attached to this post as MPG.ZIP

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84 500 SEL (307,xxx miles)

Paul -

I would be interested also. Just do a private e-mail and attach the file.

Kevin

I would also be interested if you can send it.

I plan to enter my data this weekend .... Nice of you to share the sheet layout with others.

Thanks again,
DanielW

I see that there have been 36 downloads of my spreadsheet but no one has replied with any feedback. I was hoping some one could suggest ways to make it better.
What do any of you think?

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I think it is very useful-and well done Paul.
I am not very familiar with Excel but I wonder if it would be possible to add service intervals from the manual to alert you if a particular fluid change was due either by year or mileage? Perhaps that is overkill though.
EXCELent work!

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-Marty

1986 300E 220,000 miles+ transmission impossible
(Now waiting under a bridge in order to become one)

Reading your M103 duty cycle:
http://www.peachparts.com/shopforum/showpost.php?p=831799&postcount=13
http://www.peachparts.com/shopforum/showpost.php?p=831807&postcount=14

A264172
That is a great Idea. I will start working on it.
Any other ideas that maybe I could add at the same time?

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84 500 SEL (307,xxx miles)

Microsoft Works has some great templates. I modified the Vehicle Maintenance one to show "things I wanted to fix in the near future" with prices of parts etc.

I have WorksSuites and go to Tasks+Vehicle Data+Vehicle Logs

there you have 4 choices: Vehicle Details; Maintenance Checklist; Repair Log; Road Trip Log;

all formulas are there if adding figures etc is needed

My MSWorks is an old program, don't know if newer ones have same templates for vehicles.

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Nello Tare

1982 300D (266,001 mi.) looking and running great

Previously owned:
1976 450 SLC
1983 300D
1976 300D
also
1982 Jaguar XJ6 (loved, but gone)

Well done!

I am taking a look at it this evening and will see what I can do with it to dress it up and/or add some things!

I don't think it needs much!

The best to do would be to assemble it so that it fits easily into a PDA so that entries can be done on the fly!

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1988 560SL
Black Pearl/Palamino

Documents to Go from Dataviz will synchronize all your Word and Excel documents to a Palm. Very handy. You'll obviously want to keep the spreadsheets fairly simple though.

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Lenny

There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing and mountaineering; all the rest are merely games. --Ernest Hemingway

'10 GL550/'04 BMW 545/'99 BMW 323/'98 ML320/'87 VW GTI (race)

I have produced a reasonably good SS for this but I can't upload it to the site. Won't take Excel on an upload.

If anyone wants it e-mail me for a copy!

Your correct about DataViz. I have used it for a long time and it works well for something like this!

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1988 560SL
Black Pearl/Palamino

I have worked up a simple maintaince program using Excel. While doing it I realized that a lot of it personal preference such as I change my oil every 3000 miles because my car sees severe duty. I only drive about 1.5 miles to work and 1.5 miles home. Sometimes the car may be driven more and sometimes I may drive it 1000 miles over a long weekend.
SO here is my version. If someone would want different items or miles or time let me know and I will make the modifications and send it to you.
The spreadsheet is easy to use, just inter the current mileage in the first line (in the block).
Now enter the dates (such as 12\9\04) and mileage for each of the services. You can get these dates and mileages from your records of your last service for that item and then just change the date and mileage when the service is done the next time. Now any time you want to check to see if a service is due, enter the current mileage at the top of the page and it will show how many days or miles until the service is due again. Items that are preformed by mileage are shown as how many miles until it is due again. Items done by time (such as Change Brake Fluid every 2 Years) are shown as how many days until due again.
Let me know what you think.

Here it is

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84 500 SEL (307,xxx miles)