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Export Car Service History as a PDF
A service-history PDF is a readable archive of one car: work, dates, kilometers, and costs. It is something you choose to share. It is not a public listing.
People look for a car service history PDF when a human on the other side of a counter asked for it: a buyer, a garage, a lender, or a future you who does not want to open the app on someone else's phone.
The PDF is only as good as the rows you already confirmed. Exporting an empty garage produces a tidy blank. Filling the service history first is the whole job. The file is the last step.
RPMBase can export a garage PDF from the phone app. Free includes an allowance each month. Premium raises it. Nothing on rpmbase.app stores your log. You build the history in the app, then you export when you need a shareable copy.
What the PDF should contain
The car: make, model, year, and the odometer you last stored. Then the service rows in date order: job, date, kilometers, cost. Fuel and expenses can sit in their own sections if you want a full ownership pack, not only workshop visits.
Gaps should stay visible. A missing year is information. Filling it with invented visits makes the file look complete and untrustworthy.
Photos of invoices are proof. The table is the index. If the export includes attachments or not, say so when you send it. Digital car service book is the living version. The PDF is a snapshot of that book.
When to export
Before a sale. Service records when selling a car is easier if the file already exists. Export the night before the viewing, not in the car park.
When a shop asks what was last done. A PDF they can open on a desktop beats scrolling your camera roll over a counter.
When you want a backup you control. An export is not a full account dump of every system field. It is a practical copy of the garage you would actually show someone.
What a PDF is not
It is not a manufacturer stamp. Some buyers still want the paper booklet. Attach both. Do not claim the PDF is official dealer history.
It is not live. If you change oil tomorrow, last week's file is stale. Export again. Do not edit the PDF by hand to invent a visit.
It is not public unless you send it. RPMBase does not publish cars. You choose the share target: email, files app, or a printout.
How RPMBase handles the export
Open the car in the app and export the garage PDF. Free allows 1 PDF a month. If you are preparing a sale, that is usually enough. Weekly exports for work are a reason to look at pricing.
Confirm the rows before you tap export. A draft from Ask or a receipt scan is not in the history until you accept it.
Download the app to keep the book and the export button on the same phone. The website will not generate a PDF of a garage it cannot see.