Some good points made here... After helping my dad fix some of his cars as a youngen my very first golf was my main teacher. The best way to learn is to tackle each problem yourself first with guidance from others when required. As said, first point of reference is the proper haynes book for a lot of things although even with the book it can sometimes be hard to make sense of it to an untrained eye.
The Haynes modifying books aren't that great to be honest and certainly no good for fault finding and maintenance.
that's a good shout, my uncle is pretty good with car mechanics, I might enlist his help and become his 'apprentice' hehe, I'll go over the haynes manual a few times and try and get the hang of it,
I really bought the modifying manual more for 'reverse engineering' as I reckon the lad who owned the car before me has done just about every mod in it to my car, I was hoping working the opposite way would make getting rid of his modifications
