FWIW, I think the Protest Shed (more commonly know as the Porsche
Parking area) has a micro fiche reader there and I think last
year had a PC or access to the PC's (to read Service Manual CDs)
in the registration in the MTAA building.
Matt Murray
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rocky Entriken" <rocky@tri.net>
> Let's make it even more stupid: Protestee HAS his factory
documentation.
> It's a pile of microfiches. How do we read those? Well, we go
to the dealer,
> who has a microfiche machine and read them there. Dealer
charges $100 for
> the service (which, as someone else pointed out earlier, would
be covered by
> the protest bond). It would have been the same $100 if we had
used the
> DEALER'S microfiches, but instead we required every entrant in
the paddock
> to have his own set. We have saved exactly nothing, cost the
protestor the
> same amount as before, and ALSO cost all the entrants heavy
out-of-pocket
> money to no good purpose.
>
> And BTW, that $100 is just a number plucked out of the air for
an hour of a
> mythical shop's time. Some shops may charge more, some less.
And maybe the
> shop just uses 15 minutes and only charges $25. Maybe the shop
in a burst of
> goodwill gets us the needed spec for free (I'd not be surprised
if that was
> the norm). The cost of finding out ONE pertinent spec is so
minimal compared
> to the cost of having every bit of information handy "just in
case" I can't
> see that there is any real issue there.
> --Rocky
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