I'm so stupid... Was: Head Cleaners

From: Joe R. <rigdonj_at_cfl.rr.com>
Date: Sat Jul 3 13:45:10 2004

At 12:12 AM 7/3/04 +0100, you wrote:
>> 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.


 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
Received on Sat Jul 03 2004 - 13:45:10 BST

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