NWnative
Maple Valley, WA
Senior Member
Joined: 04/17/2005
View Profile
Good Sam RV Club Member
 Offline
|
I see so many questions from people that are easily answered by simply looking at the owners manual. When I get a new vehicle the first thing I do is read the manual from cover to cover. I then review the maintenance requirements for my vehicle and create an excel spreadsheet to plan out and track what is due and when. I suppose if you were to buy a used vechicle with no manual I could understand. Anyway.....just wondering....Does anyone read the owners manual anymore?
2013 Coachmen Leprechaun 319DS - Ford E450 / V10
2013 Subaru Outback 3.6R AWD Limited
2011 Toyota RAV4 AWD Sport
|
summithmk
butt#$%$ egypt, NV
Senior Member
Joined: 12/30/2009
View Profile
Offline
|
NWnative wrote:I see so many questions from people that are easily answered by simply looking at the owners manual. When I get a new vehicle the first thing I do is read the manual from cover to cover. I then review the maintenance requirements for my vehicle and create an excel spreadsheet to plan out and track what is due and when. I suppose if you were to buy a used vechicle with no manual I could understand. Anyway.....just wondering....Does anyone read the owners manual anymore?
You got an owners manual with your Dodge? Did you "read" the CD cover to cover?
|
NWnative
Maple Valley, WA
Senior Member
Joined: 04/17/2005
View Profile
Good Sam RV Club Member
Offline
|
summithmk wrote:NWnative wrote:I see so many questions from people that are easily answered by simply looking at the owners manual. When I get a new vehicle the first thing I do is read the manual from cover to cover. I then review the maintenance requirements for my vehicle and create an excel spreadsheet to plan out and track what is due and when. I suppose if you were to buy a used vechicle with no manual I could understand. Anyway.....just wondering....Does anyone read the owners manual anymore?
You got an owners manual with your Dodge? Did you "read" the CD cover to cover?
Sure did 
|
Old-Biscuit
Across the USA
Senior Member
Joined: 06/20/2009
View Profile
|
Always read them (RV 'book', RAM Manual(s), appliances, TV's etc.) at least ONCE with a highlighter pen in hand.
Working in various power plants with multitude of different systems for 30 years one gets pretty good at gleaming information from vendor books, manuals, operating instructions......so YES I read them.
Then I do what I think works best 
|
summithmk
butt#$%$ egypt, NV
Senior Member
Joined: 12/30/2009
View Profile
Offline
|
NWnative wrote:summithmk wrote:NWnative wrote:I see so many questions from people that are easily answered by simply looking at the owners manual. When I get a new vehicle the first thing I do is read the manual from cover to cover. I then review the maintenance requirements for my vehicle and create an excel spreadsheet to plan out and track what is due and when. I suppose if you were to buy a used vechicle with no manual I could understand. Anyway.....just wondering....Does anyone read the owners manual anymore?
You got an owners manual with your Dodge? Did you "read" the CD cover to cover?
Sure did
Mine came with some stupid CD and some abbreviated owners manual. Had to call a number on the CD package to get the full owners manual and diesel supplement. Everyone I know that bought a 2010+ got the same thing.
|
|
|
duramaxdelight
everywhere
Senior Member
Joined: 10/20/2001
View Profile
Good Sam RV Club Member
Offline
|
yes, we actually go through the manuels. Boy, its like 3 books now.
We kinda like to know whats what before something happens, just like rv's new trucks have issues also.
Duramax 2011
2011 Cameo 37resls
"To be just as enthusiastic about the success of others as you are about your own"
|
othertonka
Stockton, CA
Senior Member
Joined: 11/15/2003
View Profile
Good Sam RV Club Member
|
Yes I read every owners manual for every vehicle I have ever owned. For example my Honda CRV, if you look in the INDEX for towing behind a Motorhome, it tells you what page to look at, and it tells you you can tow 4 down but you have to do certain things and certain procedures and it tells you exactly what to do before you tow. That to me is a lot better then taking someone elses description of how to do it. Wealth of info in those manuals. Now some vehicles even come with a "tablet" with all that info instead of a manual. I will always read the manual.
Othertonka
2004 Southwind 32VS 8.1 Workhorse chassis
2002 CRV Toad
U. S. Gear Unified brake system
Retired Fire Captain, SFD
|
NWnative
Maple Valley, WA
Senior Member
Joined: 04/17/2005
View Profile
Good Sam RV Club Member
Offline
|
summithmk wrote:NWnative wrote:summithmk wrote:NWnative wrote:I see so many questions from people that are easily answered by simply looking at the owners manual. When I get a new vehicle the first thing I do is read the manual from cover to cover. I then review the maintenance requirements for my vehicle and create an excel spreadsheet to plan out and track what is due and when. I suppose if you were to buy a used vechicle with no manual I could understand. Anyway.....just wondering....Does anyone read the owners manual anymore?
You got an owners manual with your Dodge? Did you "read" the CD cover to cover?
Sure did
Mine came with some stupid CD and some abbreviated owners manual. Had to call a number on the CD package to get the full owners manual and diesel supplement. Everyone I know that bought a 2010+ got the same thing.
My 2010 came with the CD as well....My answer was intended as sarcasm. I loaded it on the computer and read through it. Every other vehicle I have owned had a manual included so I was able to actually "read" those.
|
summithmk
butt#$%$ egypt, NV
Senior Member
Joined: 12/30/2009
View Profile
Offline
|
They sent me the manuals for free which was nice, I like having them in the glove box.
|
smithrjd
USA
Senior Member
Joined: 08/15/2011
View Profile
Good Sam RV Club Member
Offline
|
I as well read the owners manual. I have found that they are very generic in nature and cover several different models. Over all I have found them nowadays not to be that usefull. I can't tell from the owners manual with my new fiver if I have 6000# or 7000# Dexter axles. The manual covers both. Others are better, but not as good as they used to be. IMHO.
|
|
|
