Re: [DML] Re: Updated Service Manuals coming?
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Re: [DML] Re: Updated Service Manuals coming?





Wayne wrote regarding an updated service manual:

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What do you think, list members? Who's interested? What should such a new manual cost? (Is there sufficient sale potential to cover the cost of publication.) Speak up!


My thoughts, for what they are worth:

As I work at a GM plant - yes, it's true - they have stepped away from paper service manuals. We just finished installing an on line version where the service guys log in, select from a list the area they are interested in (Body, electric, etc.) and all schematics, disassembly instructions, part numbers and service advisories required are listed for immediate retrieval and printing. The benefit of this is the obvious savings on printing costs, and eases future updates and having to distribute them.

In our case I don't think an on line site as such would be economically feasible (then again never underestimate the power of DeLorean owners), but such a design could conceivably fit onto a CD as a version of the original one was a number of years ago, but this would feature all of the improvements, service bulletins, and any pertinent information that has been gathered over the years from various DMC owners. I, for one would purchase one in a hearbeat. One thing I've learned - of many - from being a reader of the DML for the past two years is the frustratingly incomplete state of the original service manual.

I can go into more detail in how it's set up at work if anyone is interested. Feel free to email me directly.

Best regards to all.

Joe Sorrentino
VIN (sadly no, but soon to be owner of a certified model by Lee.)
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