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John Hill:

--- Quote from: Darren on October 29, 2009, 06:22:44 AM ---I'm not sure which way to think on this, my gut feeling is most manuals don't help much anyway and rarely did. Ok there are some good ones but not many.

Even my official Beaver "copy" manual is of little use.

Most garages work on cars by experience and today are mostly part swappers.



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You are so right Darren,  my ten year our Australian Ford Ute developed a rough idle, the agents could find nothing with their diagnostic equipment but fortunately did not begin swopping parts in willy-nilly, they just said to bring it back if it got worse.  Eventually it did get worse, it got to the stage where it would start, run rough, but could not pull the skin off a rice puddings and I was afraid to take it into traffic of the likes we have around here.  That happened in another town and the experts there tried everything, swapped in a new computer and goodness knows what else. Then someone in their brilliance took out an injector to look at it and water dripped out of the fuel rail!  It eventually cost me a new fuel tank liner, fuel pump, entire new few lines, filters, et etc and a half dozen injectors.

Then my wife said "But you told Ford last year that it was worse after refueling!"   

one_rod:
I recently had to buy a fairly complex piece of electronic control gear for work.

These things usually come with a manual about a hundred pages long. When I couldn't find one in the box I rang the supplier.

"We are not allowed to give paper manuals away anymore. You can have one for free on a CD, or you can download it off the internet, but we have to pay a recycling tax on paper copies, which we have to pass on to our customers. If you want the book you have to buy it."

Apparently some suppliers are just adding the tax onto the purchase price of the equipment, and sending the book anyway. But in a price-sensitive market, some are now simply including a website reference where you can download a PDF and print it out for yourself.




one_rod.

CrewCab:
Mixed feelings ................

The manuals are useful, for instance in giving info on the variable speeds achieved via different pulley configurations in belt driven machines, ........... and the like ..........

however nothing really surprises me with the Brussels and Whitehall Bureaucrats, though this really isn't the forum for that discussion, pity they can't hold down a proper job  :hammer:

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