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Tony Duell wrote: Not necessarily - I suspect it depends on the production volume of the car in question and therefore whether they've got all the procedures figured out properly. I've got a set of Triumph works manuals here and there's still a pile of errors and omissions in them. That's not to say that 3rd party manuals are any better, just that the official manuals aren't always that good either. To make it on topic, I've found exactly the same thing with classic computers - with something that sold tens of thousands or more the bugs tend to get ironed out; with something that hardly sold at all there can be all sorts of errors. (that seems to be tied to the machine class though - e.g. mainframe designers *know* that they won't sell many, so they set aside time to get the service docs right and that gets reflected in the cost) See above, though. Sometimes I've found them useful as a cross-reference. You're right though in that it's worth having a copy of the official docs if they're available. cheers Jules