My original inquiry into the difference between the Official Factory Repair
Manual, and the Official Service Manual (both by Bentley) never was
answered. These are two different books with different covers and different
prices sold at Bus Depot. Unless the content are the same.... but to find
out that VW made available a more complete manual with service updates (all
of them???) and more complete information has wet my appetite for more. Like
VW made these available to repair shops... Does VW still do this? At what
point do they stop making it available? Couldn't someone licence the info
Bentley choose to omit, and sell it? Or if VW doesn't make this available
will they hit anybody with a big stick who makes it available for "free"?
And if only Dealers and VW repair shops had access to these manuals, then
who exactly are the people selling these on eBay? Are they retired shop
owners, bankrupt dealers? And are these books specific to the year of your
make, or is there a date of publishing so you can tell when it was last
compilied? Seems like there could be varying degrees of completeness in the
authentic manuals floating about depending on the year of publishing... Do
VW dealers still keep their service updates for Vanagons? What was the last
service date issued for our vanagon?

>From: Terry Kay <CTONLINE@webtv.net>
>Reply-To: CTONLINE@webtv.net
>To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
>Subject: VW Factory Manual.
>Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 00:45:36 -0500
>
>For those of you that have been following this Bentley--Vw Manual thing,
>the VW Genuine service manual reads---
>Volkswagenwek Aktiengesellschaft-Wolfsburg.
>
>What in the hell this means, I don't have a clue, but it is a for real
>VW shop manual, not a Bentley abbreviated copy.
>
>Der Capitain,
>Kurt Jurgins

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