Comment on There was a time when everyone had common sense
Soup@lemmy.world 4 days agoI’llbe 100% honest, bud, but if you can’t find a service manual on the internet or simply ask at the dealership I probably wouldn’t trust you to do the work. They’re available, just try even a little. And boy if you trust what little information may or may not be in an owner’s manual…
Besides, the only reason that info was in there was because the valves needed much more frequent adjusting. You really shouldn’t miss not needing to have that information so readily available.
Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 4 days ago
You’d be surprised how hard it is to find manuals these days.
Manufacturers have taken to:
Not printing them at all
Hiding them behind paywalls with exorbitant prices
HelixDab2@lemm.ee 3 days ago
Indeed. The service manual for my VW GTI isn’t a manual at all, it’s accessed electronically, and it’s thousands for a single license. OTOH, I’ve watched videos on timing chain replacement–my model year had recalls due to a faulty tensioner–and it’s easily a 3-4 hour job for a professional VW mechanic in a full shop.
The flip side is that having it online makes it easier to show things that you would have a hard time seeing in a single thumbnail sized B&W photo in the old-style of service manual.