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Re: shop manuals

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Subject: Re: shop manuals
From: Matt Murray <mattm@optonline.net>
Date: Mon, 01 Mar 2004 13:44:45 -0500
FWIW, 1999 to 2004 a plain Jane Porsche 911 (996) are around $2,100.00 for 
the books, and the turbo has additional supplements. The OBD2 section is 
also additional.

A question for those who have been on a protest committee or SEB or 
advisory classing committee. Is the OBD2 supplement mandatory? It is a 
separate and additional book, and may cover all 996s (Turbo, GT2, GT3, C4S).

Matt Murray

At 12:35 PM 3/1/2004, Steven J Miller wrote:
>But in addition to the issues of finding old manuals and dealing with
>manufacturers who won't sell the manuals at all, there is the issue that
>some of these manuals are prohibitively expensive. You can get a 1999
>Imprezza for around $7,500 (Kelly Blue Book private party value), but the
>manuals list for almost $1,100. You can find them for "only" about
>$800-$900 at a discount, more than 10% of the value of the car. But what 
>if the
>price was $2,000? $5,000? $10,000? Some manufacturers make their manuals
>unavailable by not selling them. Others do it by jacking up the price.
>
>Steve Miller
>1984 RX7 GSL-SE
>including the service manual, electrical manual, parts catalog on fiche,
>original sales brochure and original test report from C&D.






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