Customer Reviews

Volkswagen Corrado Official Factory Repair Manual: 1990-1994

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If you own a Corrado, you need this book. Everything needed to fix any problem you may encounter is covered. This book is not like those crappy Chilton and Haynes manuals with 3 pictures and a paragraph for instrucions. It has detailed instructions and practically every step is shown. The book covers not only engine, drivetrain, suspension, transmission, and brakes; but also body parts, windows, interior parts, alighnments, and the ENTIRE electrical system. The text is clear, if I can use it you can too. Buy this book. Do your own repairs. Learn a useful skill. Save a ton of money!

Absurdly expensive, but if you own a Corrado you may need tobuy this book. Due to no competition they can charge whatever theylike (none of the standard workshop manual publishers have written a book for the Corrado - probably becuase less than 100,000 were built so the market isn't big enough).

This extremely large book consists almost entirely of diagrams showing the location of every part that is available for purchase from VW. Note this is different to showing the location of every part (eg. note that specifically it tells you nothing about the interior or how to repair the G-lader since VW only sell it as a complete unit, therefore the manual only tells you how to remove it).

The book also only covers the North American models so whilst the book would still be useful to Europeans some sections will not be applicable and others will be missing.

Compared to a Haynes manual which holds your hand and carefully guides you through most proceedures you have to figure out most methods yourself with this book as it only gives you the bare bones of what you need to do for a procedure. Or it tells you to use a special VW tool which you are unlikely to have. Having said all this, if you are reasonably competent the book is invaluable when doing repairs and is also fairly good at helping you troubleshoot (particuarly on the electrical side of things).

The lack of a decent index is irritating (it has a large index which is totally illogically ordered). I can't help feeling it is also excessively large - partly due to considerable duplication of diagrams.

So, in summary, this book is not a Haynes manual equivalent, it is a book that a workshop would use to remind themselves of the order in which to perform a job or how to decide which piece of the car needs replacing. It is not a book that you need if all you are going to do is change the oil yourself. However, you probably do need this if you have a Corrado that you plan to do serious work on - but you are going to find it painful putting black fingerprints all over a book that is this expensive...

Anyone who owns this car should own this manual regardless of price (yes, I wish it were cheaper too!)but if you value your Corrado and plan on keeping it for a long time like I am, I suggest buying it. The wiring diagrams are very useful once you understand them. It has already paid for itself for the things that I've needed to repair. As for the G60, well, VW doesn't want inexperienced people messing with that because it is a highly precise item and besides some never repair it right and it ends up giving the G60 a bad name, unless you're one of the lucky few who has connections and can get it done right...research it! Get the manual and read it like a book and be proud to get black finger prints on it... ouch.

It's basically the dealer service manual without the tsb's. The extra you'll pay will repay itself the first time you use it.

This book is massive, and is crammed with a lot of information. There seems to be a bit of information lacking for specific bits & pieces and for some OEM features, so I would not say it is 100% thorough but I doubt there is anything else out there that even comes close to this. Besides, some of the missing items seem like no-brainers to me anyway. There is one glaring, very high-tech/complicated mechanical omission that still has me in shock that it's not in there.

The book must be viewed in landscape, meaning you turn the book sideways and flip the pages up. There are two shrunken factory pages on each page, so at any point when the book is open you are looking at FOUR shop pages at once. Although somewhat handy, the condensed print is annoying especially when looking at diagrams.

If you have a Corrado, nee any VW really, and you prefer to turn your own screwdrivers, a Bentley manual is a must have. I have other Bentley manuals for my other VWs, and they seem a bit more informative than this one and have full-size pages but if they did that with the Corrado book, it would be around 6" thick.

Bentley - PLEASE port all of your manuals to CD or DVD. I know you're afraid of copyright infringement [pirated discs], but in this day & age books aren't always the best way to go, especially with a manual as colossal as this one.

I bought it, cause i am doing a G60 to VR6 conversion.
Evrything in the book helped me out, espacially with the electric jungle in the engine bay and at the fuse box.

Its just perfect, and i would recommend it to evryone that is going to do big repairs to the corrado by itself.

It is worth evry dollar.

I am a little perplexed by some of the other reviews posted here.

The book is pretty hefty and fairly complete, but a good portion of the book consists of electrical diagrams. This is not a repair manual that always guides you through the step by step repair of every single component. For example it does not indicate "to remove part A, first remove the 8 mm bolts using an open end wrench", it gives you more basic instructions making the assumption you have previous repair skills. That being said, the book is pretty complete about all the major components and is essentially the only Corrado repair book that exists. Based on that criteria alone, I feel it deserves 5 stars.

Sure the book is a little expensive, but considering its size it isn't really overpriced. In all reality it will pay for itself with the money you save doing the first repair.

A very good deal on the book. Very complete piece of work. A minor complaint though. Upon the book's arrival the parcel, which was some standard "bookbox" was open. The book being to big for the box had shifted around and as such had managed to open on end of the box. But being that the book was wrapped in plastic nothing had happened to any pages or other such.

Although this is a very comprehensive repair manual for the Corrado, its value is not close to the high dollar price sticker that comes with it.