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Offline mk2mark

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Reccommended Reading?
« on: 09 October 2006, 22:02 »
Hi! What's the best service type manual for these cars? Haynes hardly did a GTI specific manual? Can't really find much on amazon, but maybe I'm not looking hard enough.
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Re: Reccommended Reading?
« Reply #1 on: 09 October 2006, 22:22 »
From what I have discovered I don't think there is a specific GTI manual.

I've been told that the Haynes Manual called the Owners Workshop Manual (Green cover) is the better resource to have then the Haynes Service manual (Red cover)- which doesn't have as much info.

The other publication is the Bentley Service Manual, which is written for US models - which although is not totally relevant to us, still does have some useful and relevant info.
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Re: Reccommended Reading?
« Reply #2 on: 09 October 2006, 23:27 »
The Bentley Manual (grey cover, from amazon us) is fantastic compared to the Haynes. Lots more detail and no 'missing' bolts!

Some things you have to reverse and i am not sure about some of the volumes so it helps to pick up a second hand haynes off ebay as extra reference.  :smiley:
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Re: Reccommended Reading?
« Reply #3 on: 10 October 2006, 15:56 »
Cool, I actually saw in the other section that there was an online Bentley manual that's not online anymore - I should be able to host it if someone emails it to me - provided the traffic's not too bad. There was one guy that seems to have it, but I can't figure out how to PM..
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Re: Reccommended Reading?
« Reply #4 on: 10 October 2006, 20:23 »
You need 10 posts before you can PM.   :smiley:
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Re: Reccommended Reading?
« Reply #5 on: 11 October 2006, 09:16 »
That's not going to be a problem, loads of useful info and a nice place to boot - I'll be sticking around :smiley:
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Re: Reccommended Reading?
« Reply #6 on: 11 October 2006, 09:17 »
Hey look, I'm half way there already :grin:

Ok enough of that :smiley:
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Re: Reccommended Reading?
« Reply #7 on: 11 October 2006, 09:37 »
I have the online version of the Bentley Manual on my computer here.

If you can tell me where you want it I can zip it up and put it somewhere for you.

It comes in at a heafty 43mb zip file though.
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Re: Reccommended Reading?
« Reply #8 on: 11 October 2006, 11:04 »
Wow that's big! Here's where I saw it: http://www.golfgtiforum.co.uk/index.php?topic=20498.0, according to that it's just over 17Mb?
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Re: Reccommended Reading?
« Reply #9 on: 11 October 2006, 12:45 »
Yeah, I think it was me who said that it was 17mb.

I've just checked the file and it looks like I'd managed to put a zip file inside a zip file.

The real size is 20mb.
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