METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DOCUMENTING AND COMMUNICATING AUTOMOBILE REPAIR AND MAINTENANCE HISTORY

摘要

A method for providing historical vehicle service data by entering vehicle service and parts replacement data and customer data by a service provider into a website (11, 12); transferring the vehicle service and parts replacement data and the customer data from the website to a central server which creates the historical vehicle service data (13, 14, 15); providing notification by the central server to a vehicle manufacturer information on defective parts (16), to a parts supplier information on replaced parts (17), and to a service provider the time of the next scheduled service for a given vehicle (18); and accessing the website by a customer for the historical vehicle service data on the customer's vehicle (20), and by a vehicle dealer and/or financial institution for the historical vehicle service data on any vehicle (19).