Comment by paul7986
Maybe this is well know and this is about auto insurance but mine just went up $50 a month because of a national database about each of our cars ... the tiniest details are recorded into it and all auto insurance companies then use to jack up your current rate. If you try to go elsewhere they point to oh you used your Allstate towing benefit a lot so it's $200 a month vs. $140 (cant get a deal from others). Jiffy Lube enters the frequency of your oil changes and the amount of miles in this database too. If you start a new temp job that's further away then usual and start to have more oil changes your insurance could / will go up cause they see you are driving more then you were. I understand entering my car's accident record into this database but I was surprised the tiniest details are entered into this database and Allstate & Jiffy Lube say they do not sell this data they just enter it into this national database...
I'll confess I was sceptical about this but, at minimum, the database seems to exist.
There's a company called Carfax that I'd never heard of. Their EU site seems to provide basic reports about the VIN, whether the car has been written off, etc. Those basic "Is this car sale a scam?" checks are common in the UK.
But the site also makes a big deal about "Get the American report!" So I googled "Carfax oil change" and found people talking about the oil change history in the reports [0]
In the UK it was traditionally common to keep a car log book where you recorded all maintenance and might get the garage to put their stamp on it, to prove to a future buyer that you'd looked after the car. But having a garage enter that info into some random company's database, and maybe not telling me, would be disappointing.
[0] https://www.toyotanation.com/threads/oil-change-history-when...