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- Subject: Shop Manual Advice: 88-Mercury Tracer
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- From: dave.williams@chaos.lrk.ar.us (Dave Williams)
- Date: 23 Jul 92 22:57:00 GMT
- Reply-To: dave.williams@chaos.lrk.ar.us (Dave Williams)
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- Organization: The Courts of Chaos * Jacksonville AR USA * 501-985-0059
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- -> In the past I've bought the Ford Shop Manual for a Fiesta and I was
- -> very disappointed. The factory manual seemed to be just a list of
- -> procedures ( if this is wrong do this ...) without any decent
- -> explanation of the workings of the various systems of the car.
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- Sounds entirely reasonable to me. Ford Shop Manuals are written for
- Ford dealer mechanics, who presumably know how things work. Not that
- they care; most of them get paid on commission, so they want to fix the
- sucker as fast as they can and move on to the next one. "How it works"
- is extraneous information.
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