Customer Reviews

VW Golf & Jetta '93'97 (Haynes Automotive Repair Manual Series)

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I bought this manual to help solve an electrical problem with a '94 Jetta. The diagrams are "typical", so the electrical information cannot be trusted. My problem was with the instrument cluster, and I removed it and took it to a VW dealer for checkout (per the book) and the dealer would not test it out of the car. Many of the illustrations are "flopped" since the car used for photos is a right-hand drive.

If you don't know much about car mecanic and are just starting, this book can be of some use to you. But if you are looking for specific data on your car (transmission, electric system, etc), buy the R.Bentley book.

The portion of the title of this book shown on the Amazon.com web site fails to show the fine print revealed on the title page of the book: it only covers 4 cylinder engines, not the V6 which was an option in the Jetta for the years covered by the book. Buyer beware.

I scanned the book to identify the location of the daytime driving light's relay and fuse however it did not contain that info. I am hesitant to rely on this book for comprehensive information.

I think this is a great book, detailed and good pictures

The book may be useful to a non-mechanic, but it is written really bad. Don't try to find anything in the index! It will send you to a wrong section and wrong page. Sometimes the book will give you just wrong information. I wanted to change a bulb in my Jetta's instrument panel, and the book says you can't do that ("no individual components are available ... must be treated as a sealed unit")! Thanks to the people in VW newsgroup I did it, and it took just 10 min.

I bought this book to help me locate various components to swap on my 98 Jetta GLX; this book has good front cover but gives other brand service manuals a bad name. What a shame; publisher take note, poor service manual like this one will eventually have a negative impact on your sales.

This is a good manual that covers many models. I think it might be more usefull if it was less comprehensive and covered a particular model more in depth.

"Service Manual" by Robert Bentley gives more informations than this Manual. If you cannot find some informations in Robert Bentley's after buying it,try to find in this book.

Book not show how to sell 3 cow for wagon. But Book show how to change oil. Book like me!