Customer Reviews

Porsche 911: Automotive Repair Manual, 1965 to 1989 - Coupe, Targa & Cabriolet

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Anyone who thinks they'll be able to completely rebuild a Porsche 911 using this book (as the cover claims) is living in a world of make-believe. As the other reviewers have pointed out, the book glosses over any 911 made after 1977, and doesn't give any instruction on activities that the home mechanic might want to do, such as removing the airbox or changing the sparkplugs or filters. If you're serious about working on your 911, pony up the cash and buy the factory manuals. They're expensive, but worth the price you pay for them, especially if you factor in the money you're saving on labor costs. The Haynes manual is seriously out-of-date and useful only as an occasional reference.

This would be a great book for anyone who is interested in actually rebuilding the alternater on a porsche 911 but is not the least bit interested in removing the said alternater. Same thing goes for the starter and everything else I needed the book for. I was sort of planning on taking the starter/alternater to a starter/alternater repair shop to have them rebuilt. The book spent three pages on exploded diagrams showing the inner workings of a starter and not even one photo of how to remove it. I've got news for most of you, unless you live in Stuttgart, there aren't many local starter shops that will work on a porsche 911....but once removed they're just simple bosche and motorolla parts and basically any shop will rebuild them for $30-$40. Everything i looked up was the same way...absolutely no photos of dissasembly...maybe that's on pupose...but I know for a fact I didn't purchase a book on rebuilding appliances this book has practically nothing to do with Porsche 911's specifically, but rather the same bosch parts common to all German cars. I ended up throwing this book in the trash.

I had always used Haynes Manuals to teach myself basice vehicle maintenance. This manual is an exception to their usual high quality.

This book is useless. The photos are very poor quality and do not show enough to be usefull. Get the factory manuals or one of the other 911 books. There is insufficient information to sucessfully complete any serious engine work. For that matter I don't beleive I could do a tune up given the information in this book.

This book I consider barely useful. It's probably handy to those who already are familiar with the car and just need a reference, but if you're like me and have never worked on a 911 before, this book leaves out too many details that I would need to get the job done.

This is a great manual for 1965 through 1977 911's. The 1978 through 1989 (the SC and Carrera model) cars are given one chapter at the end, so apparently they wrote the book in 1978 and then just tried to update it with the later models.

I guess it's true that you can't judge a book by it's cover!

poorly edited and out of date. does not even tell you specifics on changing a spark plug - which is not a trivial task on a 911.

I bought this book with the hope I could perform some of the maintainence on my 911. I was not familiar with the 911, but I had done many repairs on previous cars such as a tune up, replacing an alternator, starter, power steering pump, and master cylinder. This book doesn't give enough information to do any of the above. Buy the factory workshop manuals if you want to work on your 911. They are expensive, but worth it.

...It did a nice job of starting my fireplace one evening when I couldn't find kindling. Seriously, don't waste your money on this one. To be fair, I have used other Haynes Manuals with much success. But even with the supplimental section, this one just doesn't cut it.

Nothing of value in this book. You cannot sucessfully complete most of the tasks presented in this book with the information given. Buy the factory manuals or one of the other 911 books. Photos are very incomplete and poor quality.