"My truck has 11 grease fittings and I ended up printing off a few checklists on some note cards so I can pull one out when I do maintenance to make sure I don't miss them."

Carrying that idea a little farther: a card to give to the techs at the tire place. If they would use it.

The first time my dog had to go under anesthesia, I printed out how this breed can have 'conflicts' with various types of anesthetics and pre-anesthetics. On a later visit, I noticed there was a red tab attached to a page in the back of the file, but visible. I asked what it was, and the vet pulled out the anesthetic info I had provided. Sometimes, people DO pay attention.

Sue

Most tech's at the tire places don't like to be told how to do their job or ask if they did it afterward (I asked one time when I did use an oil change service if they got all x grease fittings).
Its soo much better to do it your self. I have seen issues in forums where people have had ball joints seperate (basically your wheel falls off) and posted pictures and ranted about the maker of their vehicle etc. Then you look at their pictures and the inside of the ball joint is dry and rusty when it should have been covered in grease and you ask about it and they tell you that every 3000 miles they took it to x place for maintenance.
We had an minivan years ago which I tool for an alignment and the place said they couldn't align the rear becaue they couldn't get to the bolts due to the ABS ring in the way. Ours was an AWD version and you had to take off the axel nut and push the anelinward to get the bolts loose, and those instructions were listed in a $12 chilton book I bought an an auto parts store. It just goes to show that there are so many differnet brands and models that the shops can't learn everything about them all so you have to do some work yourself.

Maybe, and maybe not!
Look up the tear drop thriler thread I started here last year, they are cheap, and actually fun to build.