I agree with Mark...I feel Chilton books are a waste of $$$...Haynes have actual pictures and are based on a teardown of the vehicle in question. Adam Puzerewski 81 westy 74 beetle 86 cabrio Vanagon Partsmobiles ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Mages" <wasserbox@yahoo.com> To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM> Sent: Tuesday, August 22, 2000 10:00 AM Subject: Re: [VANAGON] Plea for help (no Vanagon content)
> What kind of Haynes did you get? The only times my > Haynes has said 'take it to a shop', after I was done, > I found that I probably should have taken it to a > shop.... > > Chiltons have historically been the most unhelpful > manuals I have ever attempted to use. 1000 pages, and > you have to hunt through them to find the tiny > diagrams with extrememly technical info that you don't > need... > > just M(not so)HO > > Mark > > --- Ken Nelson <bm30@uswest.net> wrote: > > Chilton's . Avaialble at about any parts store. Stay > > away from Haynes > > though. Haynes is not nessarily correct and the > > parts where you really need > > it it says take it in to a shop. > > Ken Nelson > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Richard Bias" <rbias@hotmail.com> > > To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM> > > Sent: Tuesday, August 22, 2000 7:51 AM > > Subject: Plea for help (no Vanagon content) > > > > > > > All, > > > Thank you for reading this as this list is a > > life savor for people with > > > VW's. I am a person with 2 VW's (currently, soon > > to be more hopefully) > > and > > > 1 Ford. The Ford Escort Wagon decided to start > > peeing coolant from its > > > heater core. I have the entire lower dash board > > in the back seat and I > > > still can't get the heater core out. Can anyone > > point me to a Ford > > > "Bentley" equivalent or tell me how to get this > > freaking thing out? Thank > > > you immensely! > > > Rich and Annemarie > > > 85 GL "Buba" > > > 98 Bug and a.... > > > 94 Escort > > > > > > ________________________________________________________________________ > > > Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at > > http://www.hotmail.com > > > > > > ===== > Mark > Just because you have an opinion, doesn't mean that anyone wants to hear it > > 87 Westfalia Gl > 84 Scirocco 8v > http://student.fortlewis.edu/~mwmages/ > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Mail - Free email you can access from anywhere! > http://mail.yahoo.com/ |
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