Date:         Mon, 20 Nov 2000 15:26:06 -0800
Reply-To:     Richard Golen <rgolen@UMASSD.EDU>
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From:         Richard Golen <rgolen@UMASSD.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Forget the Haynes!
Comments: To: PSavage <psavage@SABER.NET>
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I beg to disagree.....the Haynes presents materials which, at times, are
more user friendly than Bentley. The later Bentley manuals (1980's onward)
are copies of the official VW Service Department manuals. These manuals
assume that the reader has the official VW tools as well as a certain level
of training above and beyond the "shade tree mechanic". The Haynes are
based upon a dissasembly and rebuild of a car which makes them friendlier
than Bentley.

As I always say...you cannot have too many repair manuals. What one manual
stinks at, another will describe brilliantly.

BTW, if you have a Chilton manual, it has a very specific use....keep it in
your Vanagon as emergency toilet paper...that's all they're worth!


Ric


At 09:01 AM 11/20/2000 -0800, PSavage wrote:
>Nobody seems to think much of the Haynes!
>I've already got a copy of Bentley.
>Phaedra