I am needing to purchase a set of repair manuals for a 2007-ZO 6. I would like to know which ones to buy. Which give the best details and pictures. Also if you know who would have the best price. You guys have been great in the past about helping with my questions..I do appreciate all you have shared with me..Thanks You...Route 66

 

Get the originals from GM...the 2007 ones are three books. Call Fichtner Chevy in Montana..that's where I got mine.

 

What about Partstaxi or someone on this forum.
Or Is Fichtner selling at a better price?
...Thanks Route 66

 

Get the GM Helms manuals. If you are patient, the do come up now and again on the BST forum at very reasonable prices, usually after someone trades in their car. Don't bother with the DVD's, they just don't have the details and are kind of difficult to work with.

 

All true but the Helms DVD is the same as the manual. Sadly, the DVD is $400 BUT it covers a ton of other GM cars with the Helms manual data.

Elmer

 

They are also a forum dealer. I got mine when they had a special...it was a long time ago so I don't remember all the details...I always buy the manuals right away when I get a car. I still have the factory manual for my '74 Trans Am. I just like Fichtner because everyone I have ever talked to there was first class, helpful etc. I got my warranty from Dennis also. If I was going to buy a Vette, I would try them first too.

 

If you're willing to accept used ones, don't forget the C6 Parts for Sale forum.

 

Your lucky day. Someone just posted a set for sale.

http://forums.corvetteforum.com/c6-p...p-manuals.html

 

Bingo...those are the ones!

 

That isn't true. The paper manuals are printouts of the GM Electronic Manuals which are what you get on DVDs. That being the case the paper manuals are unwieldy and hard to use since during the printing process they didn't bother to show where all of the hyperlinks went to. This means when the user of a paper manual comes to the hyperlink text in the paper manual they have to search through the manual to figure to find where the link automatically took the user of the DVD. Pictures, schematics and text are all the same no matter which way you go. The paper manuals aren't searchable either so you can't just type in a word or DTC and get all of links related to that word or code. You can't magnify the paper manual pictures or schematics which can limit their usefulness considerably.

As for ease of use all you have to do is move a mouse over a link and click. Not all that difficult.

The Electronic Manuals can be loaded on a lap top and actually take up less room than the 3 paper manuals do.

DVD versions can be purchased from Helm and will cover all GM vehicles made from 97 through the current year. They are not cheap. There are copies available through the internet that are from out of business GM dealerships that cover every GM car made from 97 through 09.

Bill

 

I haven't used the DVDs, but I can confirm that the paper manuals have a un-wonderful index and table of contents. You end up doing a lot of skimming in order to find stuff.

Are the DVDs just filesystems full of PDFs and/or HTML files, or do they require installation of some proprietary reader app written for a particular OS? If it's the latter, forget it; I'd buy the paper manuals even if they didn't come with an index at all.

 

We would certainly be happy to help you out with the GM manuals and you can get pricing and ordering info at the following link.

http://forums.corvetteforum.com/c6-z...rts-house.html