Garage Notes
On keeping cars, and keeping the paper.
Maintenance intervals, resale value, and the documents that decide what a car is worth when it changes hands.
- 6 min read
What service records actually add to a car's resale value
Everyone says a documented history is worth money. Here is where the money actually comes from, and which records move the number.
- 8 min read
A maintenance schedule by mileage: 30k, 60k, 90k explained
What the interval services actually cover, why the numbers cluster where they do, and which items are genuinely non-negotiable.
- 5 min read
The documents you need when you sell a car privately
A checklist for the paperwork side of a private sale, and the two documents that most often hold up a deal at the last minute.
More coming: state-by-state registration renewal guides, what VIN decoding tells you about your own car, and when a spreadsheet stops scaling.