Factory Repair/Service Manual - 2018 F350

jerseyjim wrote:
X2. Neighbor bought a brand new Class A gasser last year. Nice. No owners manual. Dealer said it could be downloaded.

What? 100,000 bucks and no printed owners manual? Download and perhaps print 100 + pages. If so....that's really bad.....

With regard of the F-350, auto stores carry quite a few. If not the one you want...e-bay or Amazon. g'luck !

I can grab my Ford upfitter's F 53 motorhome chassis manual off my computer, or smart phone with zero effort, and not have a few hundred pages of mostly useless pounds of paper, mixed in with the information I might actually need. I can do the same with Winnebago's incredibly well done manual of diagrams, schematics and repair and troubleshooting info. specific to my rig. Since the 1980s are several decades in the rear view mirror, the value of, and need to drag around printed copies of any of this, escapes me? BTW, this is the opinion of a grey haired, younger retiree, who has been fixing cars, with the help of my laptop sitting on the workbench, for about fifteen years now.

Nothing personal, but it's time. The reason that there are few printed repair manuals anymore is that there is very little demand. If you are a mechanic, you are either very tech. literate and educating yourself with current data continually, or the guy doing brakes and tires in the back of the shop, since you aren't willing to keep up. Information changes constantly, and nobody is going to show up to update that printed repair manual when the manufacturer decides that there is a need for a change to a spec. or process. On more than one occasion I have read a print manual that gives instructions to remove an assembly through a really convoluted and time sucking process, only to go online and find a way to do it in 1/5th the time. In some ways, an outdated printed manual can be more of a hindrance than a help.