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I read many parts of mine, I always find new things. I learned my SUV drops to this level at 110 mph, then to this level at 140+mph. Kinda funny to read it in a manual.
Yes, but only if I have an issue. Like, our VW had a problem with the power window. It would go up, hit, and go back down. Apparently, if you read the manual you can fix it yourself.
Soooo, how many of you manual readers read the manual when you rent a car?
Usually rental cars don't have the owner's manual in the glove box. The company takes them out and stores them, returning the manual to the car when they go to sell it.
Dad did. He often had to look at the schematic as English car manufacturers used phrases he didn't understand in print. The Japanese early manuals were translated, AGAIN, by someone in England. You should know what I mean as they're all now doing the news in the USA and I need subtitles, like the movie "Trainspotting".
We still have those manuals, including for a D-7 CAT and the wrenches to match. If anyone wants them, you can pick them up in LOS ANGELES. I'm down to the San Gabriel Valley the first part of September!! (2017)
I have both a Chilton and Haynes for my current vehicle. I don't read them cover to cover, but I will try to familiarize myself with quite a bit of the data contained in these books....it really helps me when I have to tear-into the thing.
So I found a pdf online & was going to print it out but it was 400+ pages. The car is now paid off & I still don't know what all those buttons do. The mirrors, lights & seats will just self adjust ... I have no idea why.
I could not deal with that. I like my car to be just the way I like it. It would drive me insane if things were adjusting and changing. Neighbors would be looking out the window wondering why I was yelling at my car.
I familiarized myself with the Table of Contents and skimmed quickly through the chapters when I first bought the car. Since then, I have only referred to it when I had a specific question. Most recently, I pulled it out to review something about the Nav system.
Rentak cars hardly ever have owners manuals in them. They get stolen too often, so the companies remove them.
My experience is different. Only a few I have rented did not have the manual. Sometimes you need it. When I rented a Pruis, everything was so foreign to me I needed to look in the manual to find how to release the E-Brake, and turn signals, wiper/washers, . . .. everything seemed to be in the wrong place. Without the manual, I would not have been able to move.
When a car is 20 years old, the manual is sometimes included.
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