Chilton's Manuals

[Station]

Anyone use these? I've found a cheap'n on the bay of eh.

 

http://www.amazon.com/Chrysler-Challeng ... 0801990629

 

500+ pages is quite meaty. Are they shite or "okay/acceptable"?

[whitevanman]

Anyone use these? I've found a cheap'n on the bay of eh.http://www.amazon.com/Chrysler-Challeng ... 0801990629500+ pages is quite meaty. Are they shite or "okay/acceptable"?

I assume its a USA issue? if so it will seem a bit strangly laid out, but all the info is in there and more.............you just have to get used to the different terminology etc, etc

[Station]

Yes, it's USA only. Are there any other US manual makers out there?

[whitevanman]

Yes, it's USA only. Are there any other US manual makers out there?

several if I remember correctly including haynes, did they do a version of the car in Australia? if so check out the "gregorys" range of manuals, much more what we are used to

[Milford Cubicle]

The Chilton manual I had for 'Subaru range 1980-1989' was terribly vague, utterly no help at all.I imagine the model-specific ones are a bit better though.

[peter9000uk]

Chiltern are worse than the Haynes book of lies. Try Bentley or Bently manuals, they are American and very good albeit expensive

[AnthonyG]

Chilton manuals are pretty crap tbh, only worth buying if its a Yank thing no one else does - even then its usually a good idea to try and get a s/h factory manual. The comments on the Amazon page are pretty fair.Don't Haynes do one on the appropriate UK Mitsubishi? The US market one, particularly one covering the captive import Plymouth/Dodge models, will have loads of incorrect/useless info anyway.There's a good reason why Haynes are the market leaders - they are by far the 'least worst' non factory manual.

[IanF]

A couple of mates swear by the Bentley manuals but I think they tend to focus on the Kraut stuff

[Station]

Really bought it for some electrical checking stuff and the correct way of dissassembling stuff. It's got all that, the electronical spec is non-existant though. Think I'll pay 40 quid for the 600 page manual.

[Rocket88]

see if you can get a cd workshop manual [the dreaded e word is a good place to start...]

[Station]

I have the workshop manual in electronic form (from HERE), but it's nothing like a papery one.