I hae had the Bently for a few years and have done much work from it. I
have also had much confusion from it when it assumed that I had knowledge I
did not possess. This is not to fault the Bentley, it is, after all, a
FACTROY manual and is not written for us tyros.
   I have had the Haynes for a couple of weeks now. I have yet to do any
work from it but I have looked up some things from past jobs to see if the
information agrees or if there were any "tips" offered. While looking
through the book my most used phrase was "So THAT's where the %*!@# thing
is!".
   Bottom line: If you are already something of a VW "Brain Surgeon" you
will be bored stiff with the Haynes. If you are like many of us and are
stumbling through VW internship the Haynes is (at the risk of getting the
religion thread going again)a Godsend. If the information in there saves
only one trip to the dealer it will have more than paid for itself.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:Vanagon@vanagon.com]On Behalf Of
> Kelly Bauman
> Sent: Monday, July 06, 1998 4:20 PM
> To: Vanagon@VANAGON.COM
> Subject: Re: Haynes Manual
>
>
> At 14:05 06-07-98 -0400, John Anderson wrote:
> >BUT, and my opinions only here, this is the most worthless POS
> Haynes manual
> >I've ever seen in my life, totally horrid and most definitely worthless.
> >Even as a supplemental piece of reading it is worthless, you won't
> >learn one thing you wouldn't from the Bentley, .....
>
> I respect John's opinion about the Haynes book, but for some of us the
> Bentley is cryptic, lacks description and assumes a wealth of prior
> automotive repair knowledge.  The Haynes on the other hand is very user
> friendly and caters to a more novice mechanic.  I have used both and much
> prefer the Haynes.
>
> Kelly Bauman
> Delta, BC
> '91 Westy
>