Ford CD Service/Tech/Repair Manuals on Ebay

Use Ebay much? Know what user feedback is about ?

If you want me to vouch for these, as they are prolly violating the law, I cant do that.

But that's about what I paid for mine.

Sho'ly. Seller has an OK record. Not worried about getting nothing for my payment.

Hmmmmm. You took it the wrong way.

Nice, simple question: Has your CD served your repair needs well and without major omissions (i.e. stuff thats missing from the Haynes manuals)??

Thx, Puddin'

I never buy from anyone with less than 98.5 unless he's hit a string of obvious deadbeats

no.. you took THAT the wrong way

See directly above

if you can follow them.. a little different than you might be used to.

yes

Puddin',

I got mine here - it's real -

PoD

I've heard that the CDROMs are re-issued periodically to the dealer, with the old ones thrown away (or, maybe sold on eBay). I asked my dealer, and he said that they accessed their data directly from the internet, and didn't have CDROMs.

Helminc.com sells the official "2005 Escape/Hybrid Service Information CD-Rom" Price: $170.00 The printed manual is $165.

I wouldn't mind a used one at all, for a tenth of the price, especially if the dealer was throwing it away.

Puddin, That particular one doesn't look like an original. The interface in the screen shot is wrong. This one looks better:

If those are real screen shots, it's the Ford manual. Don't worry about the Escort-Tempo... part of the listing. The CDs cover all of the Ford cars for a particular model year. Clarence, The CDs were only used in the dealerships up to about 2002, the dealers were sent Multi Year DVDs after that. Many have since gone to the online manuals, but I think some shops still use the DVD format. The CDs are available from Helm for later years. The DVDs have shown up on ebay before, but I haven't seen any recently. IIRC the DVDs were going for about $35. Oh, I found one:

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Well, I figgered the ones that billed as " THUNDERBIRD etc" would be a jungle to navigate thru, but the screen shot suggests that one just points to a model and then selects a sub-system (engine, exhaust, etc).

I'll give it a try.

Much thanks to Tom, Clarence, Paul, and (the misunderstood, apologies) Backyard Mechanic.

Skoal, Puddin'

Naah. When you open the Ford Technical Service Publications program, the first thing you do is choose the vehicle you are working on. The you choose the manual you need (EVTM, Emisions, BCE)