At 07:06 PM 4/15/2004 -0500, you wrote:
>Assuming it's not in the owners manual you take it to a dealership and pay
>their exhobitant prices or get reamed for the factory service manual. I seem
>to have heard that Porsche in particular got fed up with sophomoric mechanical
>neophites attempting to do their own work and making the cars worse at
>Porsche's expense.
It's not just Porsche. If I wanted to buy (legally) a factory service manual
for my '98 Subaru, I would have
to pay hundreds of dollars. (But at least I would get a set of manuals that
covered about 10 model years.)
In contrast, when I bought an Acura in 1987, it came with an excellent service
manual.
The Acura dealers were also extremely good at stocking parts and generally
having an
owner-friendly parts counter. I gave up trying to get parts from my local
Subaru dealer;
they never seem to actually stock anything, and they quote me exorbitant prices.
Doug Braun
'72 Spit
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