Mk5 fault finding and maintainance manual

[MinorMatt]

I am getting a bit fed up of answering the same questions over and over again...

I am therefore considering doing a brain dump, and writing a fault finding/maintainance type guide. I think it will be quite a large document, and would be more focussed on common problems and solutions to fix them rather than being a haynes type guide. (E.g. PATs blink codes, fitting turbos, lucas epic fault finding etc). I would want to charge for it, but potentially would anyone be interested?

[chaslynch]

Absolutely. Nice idea

[wazzadj]

Awesome idea Matt
I would highly recommend your information and knowledge is invaluable
Very happy to make a donation to the cause
set up a DONATE page and will support
Keep up the brilliant work

cheers
Wayne AUSTRALIA

[CamperVanBeethoven]

It sounds like an excellent idea, if it's affordable. But I wouldn't expect you'd sell a lot of them ... pricing is a hard thing. Make it too expensive and it won't sell. I think around the price point of a Haynes manual would be a good figure ...?

[MinorMatt]

I guess I had better start writing then!

[duddles]

I would be keen for a bible in Australia

[irmscher]

Did you write anything Matt

[MinorMatt]

Not yet... it will take a while!

[Altransit]

Not yet... it will take a while!

OK, we'll give you until the weekend then

[bambi mk 1]

Whatever you do Matt don't even think about doing a mk 7 ,you would have a grey whiskers down to your toes before you would be half finished

[robbie.cee]

Or encourage people to use the "search" function!!

[CamperVanBeethoven]

Or encourage people to use the "search" function!!

Any search function is only as good as knowing what you should be looking for.

Users at work are sometimes amazed when, confronted with a baffling error message, I search Google, reject the sites that on experience look like obvious spam sites, read some stuff, Google again with a more specific query, repeat, read some sites, go 'hmmm!' and think a bit ... look at some stuff, Google again ... and then find an answer that fixes their problem. It's just experience based knowledge.

Like I said to the maintenance guys, 'If it wasn't for computers I'd probably be a maintenance engineer'. And they get that, because they basically do the same as I do. And I used to do the same as they did, because I've been in the game since before search engines made it easy. You had to read manuals and ask around, and think.

Millenials just don't get this