I had some free time today so tried to upload all my "done at home" and "done at the mechanic's" service records into the Toyota site. After putting in a bunch I pulled the full service history and found that it had accepted the first 5 and ignored the rest - without putting up any kind of warning. Thanks for wasting my time Toyota! Does this site have a "5 per day" limit on these sorts of records? It could also be a glitch because all the records it dropped were more recent than the last record it already had. I also noticed that most of the work done under a warranty (from when the car was purchased used) at Longo were not present in the log. But a couple were. Strange.
I can not answer your questions. I do know that anything that you add can only be seen by you. If you sell the car in the future, the new owner will not see what you entered. So, I do not take the time to enter the maintenance that I or my local mechanic does. I just keep written records for myself.
Right, the fat file folder full of receipts and notes. Putting the data into the Toyota site was mostly going to be a backup, in case somehow that folder was ever misplaced or damaged. It did have the advantage that all the records were in one place. If it won't be visible to the next guy I might as well just use a google Doc instead, starting by downloading all the records out of the Toyota site.