I have 3 books covering my '81 Vanagon and the best of the bunch is
the Clymer; clearest, most detailed step-by-step procedures, pretty
good pictures, etc.  However, it seems like Clymer is no longer
publishing auto manuals, so I'd guess you'd just have to get lucky
finding a used one.

I have the Bentley (which I just recently acquired) and my complaints
about this one are: 1) it covers every year of Vanagon every made, so
there's lots of extraneous stuff and 2) is assumes you're a VW mechanic
so the "step-by-step" details are pretty slim.

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Tom Young               young@sherlock.SIMS.Berkeley.EDU
Lafayette, CA  94549    '81 Vanagon
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On Sun, 8 Dec 1996 guzzi1@ix.netcom.com wrote:

> Since I have moved out to Louisiana I have found it hard to find anythng
> VW related. Can anyone reccommend a good shop manuel for an '84 VW
> Westfalia? Seems Bently is the book of choice. Is this so? Where can I
> get the best deal on one? Anyone want to get rid of an old used book?