3 Jul
2004
3 Jul
'04
6:45 a.m.
At 12:12 AM 7/3/04 +0100, you wrote:
Tony's right. The Hayes manuals are junk. And the Chilton's manual are
worse! Now when I buy a car I make the dealer include the factory manual.
They're expensive as hell to buy but the dealers cost on them is about 1/3
of what they charge the public so they willingly include them if you tell
them that it's the only way that you'll buy the car. And let me tell you,
on a newer car with all the elctronics and computers you MUST have the
factory manual if you want to have a ghost of a chance of fixing it. The
dealers in this area charge $75 or more just to connect the readout box and
read the diagnostic codes out of the computers. That alone will pay about
half the price of a GOOD manual.
Joe
We had one of
those haynes service manuals (it was an old car, so we'd
I have been singularly unimpressed with Haynes manuals. They seem to omit
important information, not describe certain jobs (automatic
transmissions, diffeeentials, some electrical stuff, etc are regarded as
'too difficult for the home mechanic' -- BLETCH!), and even have some
serious errors.
I try to get the offiical manufacturer's manual (I actually have quite a
shelf of them now) -- often it's expensive, but it's worth it.