I just placed an order on a repair manual on CD, it comes with the two books (Service manual and Body manual) on CD, since I can't find the books, even if I found the books, they are expensive, even the reproduction ones. What do you guys have? the CD or books?
Books only but I have a bit of an advantage at finding them. It makes the most sense to have CD as far as $$$ and space goes. I could claim back a large part of my "parts department" at home if I could have it all on CD.
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1966 Strato Chief 2 door, 427 4 speed, 45,000 original miles
1966 Grande Parisienne, 396 1 of 23 factory air cars (now converted to a "factory" 4 speed)
I had access to Chilton's online, but they didn't have any information for my car. They had information for cars from the 60's to present, but nothing for the Riviera. I would have ordered the books if I could have ordered them at Canadian tire or Chapters, but wasn't able to. On Ebay, they are costly too, so I finally went ahead and decided to get the CD.
"This CD-ROM offers page-for-page reproductions of two bound manuals that Buick mechanics used to service cars. It includes the 1968 Buick Chassis Service ManualAll Series, and the 1968 Fisher Body Manual.
So it should be the factory manuals that are on book, but just on CD.
i have both. some cd's and books for my bikes and print for everything else. i even have some old microfiche for some of my bikes. that remoinds me last year i took my little brother (i'm in the big brother program) to a gm dealership last year so he could follow a mechanic around for a day. everything the mechanic worked on, he would go to laptop by his tool box and log onto a gm site for what ever details he needed and if needed print them off. i asked and he said they don't uses books anymore.
I agree with Todd's thinking. Along with these manuals it's hard to take a computer everywhere. Lately a lot of magazines are going online for subscriptions. Nice to be able to hold it in you hands anywhere you happen to be.
My printed data base is limited mostly to the Original GM Chassis shop manual that was printed in Canada and sent to each GM Dealership in South Africa. It is "priceless"!!!! However I have a laptop that is linked to my son's ADSL through wireless networking. Works well around the house. My digital data is huge that I have downloaded and there are good websites to visit.
Thanks for the opinions. I don't really mind it being on the CD because I could just print it off and take it with me. Staples allows prints for 6 cents a sheet, so it would cost around 30 bucks to get 500 pages printed there if I wanted to get the book from the CD on paper.
Are they? whats the difference? Now, I can't wait to get the CD!
Chiltons and Mitchells are OK if you have nothing else but they can never hold a candle to the original factory literature - always get that if you can. The factory stuff will be about 5 times as thick with about 5 times as much details as well!
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Hillar
1970 LS4 (eventually an LS5) Laurentian 2dr hdtp -and a bunch of other muscle cars...
Just got the manuals on CD today. almost 4 weeks of shipping but, finally came. Tons of information on the CDs and are readable. The shop manual is 1500 pages The Body manual is about 500 pages. So it did turn out to be a good buy!
I have the original GM manuals and I love them.. but.. I hate looking through them when I'm in the shop just in case I get the pages dirty. LOL like that ever happens.
good to know your happy with the cd's.. makes more sense to get the laptop dirty than the originals in the shop.
