To answer that question one would have to know what is going to break in
the next few months. If nothing breaks you dont need either manual.
   The Bus Depot has the water cooled Haynes for about $25. That one covers
pretty much the same type of info you will find in the "typical" Haynes
written for other vehicles. If you intend to send all "major surgury" cases
to your local shop that may be the only manual you ever need. If you are
going do the work yourself though you may as well spring for the Bentley
now. I paid $85 for mine and it has been the best investment I ever made.
Save 2 hours of shop labor costs and you  have broken even, after that you
are saving money. In the 5 years I have had my 83.5 Westy I figure I have
saved a couple of thousand bucks in labor.
    Before you buy it though drop in to your local library. Mine had TWO
copies of the Bentley!

-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com]On Behalf
Of Johnson, Darrell
Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 1999 8:19 PM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: A Reasonably Priced Manual?

Here I sit with my "new" '90 Vanagon Carat and I want a manual to keep this
fine beast running.  Besides the $70+ VW Bentley manual (which I know I will
have to purchase at some point), is there a more reasonably priced
alternative I can live with for a few months?  All I can find on the
Internet bookstores is a Haynes manual for the earlier air-cooled
subspecies.

Darrell

Mission Viejo, CA