Can you buy the factory service manual?
 

Before I go beat up my local documart printing up the PDF is there a place to just buy the fsm (I'm fine with a high price)

Yes you can order it through parts department

here are some part numbers...looks like they are good pricing too:

https://www.subaruparts.com/?p=catal...r%27s%20manual

*le sigh* factory service manual

So PDF printing is my only option?

Unfortunately, I think so. I am also VERY partial to the hardcopy. I'd pay premium $$$ for a factory book. :(

Go ask a dealer if they can order you one. With how large it is they will probably look at you and laugh but it is worth a shot.
I am another that likes paper but damn that thing is huge.

Damn even Haynes doesn't seem to have one and they are usually pretty handy.

Now if you need to repair your warp cores on the Enterprise they have you covered.

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon....1iFv0nlI6L.jpg

Woah sorry for some reason I was thinking of owner's manual all throughout :lol:

That's what she sa...

Eh, who am I kidding...:(

:rolleyes: :cheers:

Mrs. Ultra already tried for me. I'd love to be wrong.

Someone please prove me wrong. :D

Her Camry manual is 2 encyclopedic volumes. Paid $300 for that one 9 years ago.

Ya that was sort of what I expected. Guess it is just a matter of printing off what is needed for a task.

Does a paper copy of the FSM even exist for these cars? I was under the impression that everything is now in electronic format, stored on CDs and in computer programs, and the PDFs available for download are basically pulled off the CD.

If it's anything like other Haynes manuals, it will show equipment not present on that year spacecraft and include procedures written for the entire starship class that may or may not actually apply to the Enterprise. You'll go try to check the hydraulic line it depicts in the illustration, only to find that the line has "GNDN" stenciled onto it. Then you'll spend hours searching for the correct line, only to find it has a connector that requires a special tool the Haynes manual makes no mention of.

There is no actual paper manual anymore...only the electronic format (.pdf).


Makes it interesting at the dealer when the web goes down! LOL

It can't worse than the Acura dealer in Riverside CA was in the late 90s. I had an 88 Integra that was throwing a CEL. I had a FSM, checked the code and it was the cam angle sensor (I think). Being the lazy f*&t I am, I took it to the dealership and told them "It's throwing the code for a cam angle sensor, please replace it." When I picked the car up that evening, they had replaced the distributor. I asked WTH - they said I had been mistaken that it was the distributor that was causing the problem. I asked, "are you absolutely sure?", and got a snotty response.

Went out to the car, fired it up and ... it still threw a CEL - same code. My wife swears she can see the blue cloud in the air to this day. From Texas. Went back inside, had a frank and open discussion with the service manager. Turns out they did NOT HAVE an F'N shop manual for that car. I told him that I DID, but he would need forceps to extract it from his rectum to read it.

A couple of years later I related the story to a student who lived in Corona and was a Honda Mod-Monster. He looked at me and said, "You're THAT guy? That was all the guys at Honda of Corona could talk about for months."