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Old 02-21-2005, 08:45 PM
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Factory Service Manual

Does DC sell their Factory Service Manuals? Nissan has a website where you can buy a membership and have unlimited access to their FSM. The deal is, you buy a one day for $20, and save a copy of each section of the FSM for your related vehicles. This gets you a $200 CD worth of documents for $20. and its LEGAL.
I have found these books of great use with my frontier and would like to get a set when I get a CTD.
Old 02-21-2005, 09:17 PM
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Tech Authority sells the manuals, why steal when you can own so cheaply

I would say that what you describe is not the intended use for that site.
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Intended or not, they allow it and there is no disclaimer telling you to not save the files when you join.

How much are the manuals from Tech Authority?
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http://www.techauthority.daimlerchrysler.com/
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They only go back to 1994.
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a similar site to try is alldata.com . you pay like 25.00 for the first vehicle and like 15.00 for all the rest. they do give you a year subscription to the info and you can save and print as many times as you need. i guess its a good deal even though on some vehicles they could have a little more info. plus, if any new recalls or tsbs come up - you get them if your subsciption is still current. i have chiltons and haynes on every vehicle that i have but some of their info is better and they give you labor hours on alot of the work too
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I have Alldatadiy.com. It's pretty good but their stuff is badly organized into a series of HTML and graphics pages. The wireing diagrams are good though. They didn't have the specs for tightening the bearing nut on my dually rear end. They are missing a lot of important stuff.

They have a very good section on troubleshooting the RWAL system.

I mainly wanted them for the wireing diagrams.

The books you get in the auto parts stores nowadays aren't worth a EDIT. They cram 10 model years into one book so they just barely cover the basics. They don't have any of the important stuff.

I bought a Chiltons Chrysler Full Size trucks 1989-96 Repair Manual #20402 and it ain't worth spit. Don't even make good TP.

Edwin
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Originally posted by edwinsmith
They only go back to 1994.
They only have the last 10 years available at any given point in time. Next year 1995 will be the oldest available. I bought mine for my '92 from them 3 years ago.

For things more than 10 years old, watch e-bay.
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What Im really looking for is the same thing the dealership has.
at TUNFS, they have a couple nissan techs as members and the dealerships they work at have dealer memberships to www.nissan-techinfo.com which is where I got my 1 day membership for the same documents.
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Originally posted by edwinsmith
They only go back to 1994.
Ok then.......
http://www.moparmanuals.com/mopar/main/Home.asp
I got my 70 Challenger manual there along with my 75 Powerwagon. I got my current 01 Ram manual from techauthority, along with my 93 Ramcharger.
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