anyone with a mk2 haynes please confirm for me?
Posted: Fri Aug 20, 2004 5:59 am
that there's a section near the back with a bollock-load of deep techy info in it? like engine characteristics and gear ratios for different boxes and the like, just before (or in?) the section detailing all the myriad additions and revisions to the car from 1982 onwards (including craziness like the Formel E auto start/stop system!).
stuff like that my mk3 manual is badly lacking in, and i'm wondering whether to splash out and get one for myself as a lot of it would be, at least at a basic level, quite relevant. had a quick flick thru one in halfords (looking for any scrap of info on brake fluid capacity) and i'm wondering whether to get one as a backup clue repository for things that the mk3 manual is bare on. it may well have a method with photos for changing the gearbox oil - i didnt come across it, but there may be.
on the other hand, the one i flicked thru didnt seem to have hardly of anything in the regular maintenance / roadside repairs section, about 3 pages to the mk3 manual's 10 or more, so maybe its a fluke misprint thats slipped through the gaps and anything i'd buy would be as crap as the mk3 manual
(hmmm, mebbe i should have de-cellophaned the mk3 that was there and seen if it had been updated)
i think i'll be back tomorrow and rob all the GB data out of it as well... assuming it hasn't just been taken from ETKA. seeing as they appear to have stripped down / rebuilt several gearboxes though (evidenced by the severl exploded-components diagrams of the 5 speed) it may well be truth from some haynes spanner wielder counting the teeth...
stuff like that my mk3 manual is badly lacking in, and i'm wondering whether to splash out and get one for myself as a lot of it would be, at least at a basic level, quite relevant. had a quick flick thru one in halfords (looking for any scrap of info on brake fluid capacity) and i'm wondering whether to get one as a backup clue repository for things that the mk3 manual is bare on. it may well have a method with photos for changing the gearbox oil - i didnt come across it, but there may be.
on the other hand, the one i flicked thru didnt seem to have hardly of anything in the regular maintenance / roadside repairs section, about 3 pages to the mk3 manual's 10 or more, so maybe its a fluke misprint thats slipped through the gaps and anything i'd buy would be as crap as the mk3 manual
(hmmm, mebbe i should have de-cellophaned the mk3 that was there and seen if it had been updated)
i think i'll be back tomorrow and rob all the GB data out of it as well... assuming it hasn't just been taken from ETKA. seeing as they appear to have stripped down / rebuilt several gearboxes though (evidenced by the severl exploded-components diagrams of the 5 speed) it may well be truth from some haynes spanner wielder counting the teeth...