Bentley DVD manuals

John Cody Forbes cody at 5000tq.com
Mon Jan 5 17:06:15 PST 2009


Every Bentley DVD manual that I've used (most A-chassis and B-chassis cars 
as well as C3) was pretty much exactly the paper manual with plenty of 
scanned pages and/or exact reproductions of the pages. I know this because 
we bought the combo pack where you get both for one reduced price.

-Cody Forbes
http://www.5000tq.com

Eric Sanborn wrote:
> I bought the '98 A6 Avant I was looking at so I went looking for a
> manual.  The paper manual for the C4 A6 is $250 and out of print, so I
> got the $75 manual on DVD.  Is it me or is the DVD horrible?  I can't
> find anything.  It doesn't have transmission shift charts for my car,
> no detailed tear down instructions, no troubleshooting charts, and
> doesn't even tell you where the battery is located.  Yes I can find
> it, but this is ridiculous.  I have a bunch of paper manuals and love
> them.  How can the DVDs from the same publisher be so bad?  Oh yeah I
> forgot something.  The wiring diagrams are just scans of the paper
> manual pages, and not very good ones either.  The paper version of
> this manual had something like 3200 pages (3 volumes).  There is no
> way there is more than 1000 pages worth of data on this DVD, probably
> less.
>
> GRRR 




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