where to get a cheap service manual that is good

Someone mentioned Ebay. Whatever you do, get a factory service manual, do not, under any circumstances get a Hayes or Chilton's manual--a phonebook will give you more correct instruction.

Anyone have experience with the manuals on CD?

------------- Alex

Yes, a version I own for a Mitsubishi appears to be an exact duplicate of the FSM that was scanned into Adobe Acrobat PDF format. The CD_ROM version affords the ability to do a quick keyword search on a section of the entire document. Once you have the procedure or area of the manual identified, you can always send the relevant pages to a printer. An if you get the printed pages greasy while doing the job, you can toss the printout and get another when you need it. The price was right too at about $30 a couple years back as I recall.

Bob

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Yes, ebay is the best solution. Get a factory service manual. For some reason (I can't imagine why), these are cheap on ebay. It's the only cheap thing I've seen on there.

I have a CD version of a Ford FSM. I don't care for it. It isn't particularly easy to navigate, and the index sucks as compared to their paper offerings. I tend to rely more on a manual from an older car than this CD.

On the positive side it includes information on ALL 2000 model year passenger cars, and it did only cost $30.

If it was just a scanned in PDF, I'd be happy with that.