Price check - Complete set of factory shop manuals, Red binders, Excellent condition Options

[theer]

This guys sells a PDF version for $40.

https://m.ebay.com/itm/Porsche-914-and-914-...6.c100890.m2460

[larryM]

amazing, eh? - think about the time & effort to scan & organize the set !! - gotta be a hobby cuz it doesn't pay well

long way from when Charlie got stopped by Porsche from selling his xerox parts diagram manuals (have a set .. but so do 8,000 others of us)

i have a set of the red ones b'ot from a Sunnyvale dealer's parts guy back when Porsche had ditched 'em in favor of digitized manuals;

once they were worth a LOT - NOW NOT SO MUCH since there are now a whole lot of guys who will scan & give 'em away for free - or simply scan & post any page anyone wants on any given day

such is the market - one day we may find that copies of GT's have also killed the market

- the average CSOB garage putterer could care less, i suspect - free is great & better even than a $20 Haynes

ONE CAVEAT - THE EbAY PDF SET does not have large nor color wire diagrams - they were scanned B&W and tiny - a Haynes beat 'em for that

- my oem set has 'em with color and that is worth a LOT to me - i have enlarged 'em at local shop to table top size

oops - sorry for the caps-lock

This guys sells a PDF version for $40.

[mepstein]

Scanning is easy these days. A good office copier/scanner/fax/printer will scan 100 pages in a minute and convert to pdf. I used to scan all my real estate paperwork to pdf. It can be searchable.

[Mark Henry]

Agreed and PDF is great resource, but there will always be a market for these sets.

[dcheek]

It's too bad Bentley Publications didn't publish a repair manual for the 914. The ones I have for my 911 and VW's are great.

Dave

[McMark]

I'm interested in a real set, but pretty much only because I think it's time to produce new PDF scans that are relatively searchable, much higher resolution, and with full color wiring diagrams.

Zooming in on a component on the wiring diagrams, only to have it go all fuzzy is getting annoying. Trying to decipher what pin number those 9 pixels look most like is also really annoying.

As mentioned, new scanners could eat through the manuals in about an hour, and apply character recognition.

[bbrock]

I use Nitro Pro as my pdf reader and it has a feature that lets you convert a pdf to searchable using its built-in OCR. Once it is index, the pdf can be saved and is searchable from then on. I'm sure other pdf software must have a similar feature.

For wiring diagrams, I've been using the ones on Jeff Bowlsby's site. At least the ones from 73 on are in color and formatted for 11"x17" printing. I printed the 73 and 74 diagrams at that size and they are crisp and readable.

I'd still like to have a hard copy of the manuals because I think that format is easier to use. I've thought about printing the pdf and putting them in binders.