Trying to find a service manual for a W210. Other than the expensive MB manuals the only one I can find is a book by the Pocket Mechanic Peter Russek. Has anybody used this manual? How does it compare to Bentleys?

Anybody willing to sell/burn a copy of the no longer published DVD by MBUSA?

Id sure be haunting fleabay to find one too.

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1985 300D 198K sold
1982 300D 202K
1989 300E 125K
1992 940T

"If you dont have time to do it safely, you dont have time to do it"

"The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not."

You might try alldatadiy.com. I believe a yearly subscription is about $100 (?). I have seen several posts by those who have bought various CD's on eBay and they were all unhappy with what they got.

Try this guy, I have one but it is not the greatest, better than most stuff. All Data is pretty good, I dont know why MB does not have any!
http://books4cars.com/

I believe you can get a 1 day subscription on MB's WIS for about $20. Great for one big project as you can download anything relevant. But the annual fee is pretty steep for the average DIYer.

I agree about the MB DVD. It's got to be the most profitable item they sold. I asked at 1-800-FOR MERCedes why it was discontinued and got no meaningful comment. I wonder if the dealers complained that DIYers were eating into their service bay profits.

I got the Mercedes WIS DVD's on Ebay 2 years ago for under $100 and it's money well spent. Forgot from whom but it's like: http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Mercedes-Smart-WIS-09-08-EPC-net-07-08-shop-set-EWA_W0QQitemZ330411818963QQcmdZViewItemQQptZMotors_Manuals_Literature?hash=item4cee143fd3

After 92 Mb decided they were not going to publish any service info for the general public, other manufacturers and the independent shops complained.The goverment then mandated that the info be made available, I guess they did their part, the DVDs are copy protected so you cant copy them. I called the other day and questioned why they are not updating them for MS 7 and Adobe 9 and was directed to a non existant support web page.

How about the so-called "expensive" factory manual for $18?

Just subscribe for a day to startekinfo and download as much as you want.

(It's nice to have pdf writer software to do this)


http://www.startekinfo.com

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Kent Christensen
Albuquerque
'07 GL320CDI, '10 CL550. '01 Porsche Boxster
Two BMW motorcycles

Anyone ever get eyes on this ?

http://www.mercedesmanuals.com/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=rskw210&CartID=1

no meaningful info on the product page. "live support" sucks.

Any chance the title of this thread could be changed to "W210 workshop manual" since its current title is too broad.

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83 300TD (need rear wiper assembly dead or alive)
84 300SD Daily driver
85 300TD almost 400k miles and driven daily.
98 E300D *sold
86 300SDL *sold and made flawless 10 hour journey to new home.

Looks like you get a manual for a specific model and year range for your $65. Much better to get the WIS that covers nearly every model from the 70's on up for around $100 the last time I bought a copy.

My understanding may be "legend," but it's that the print shop for manuals suffered a fire in the early '90s and Mercedes determined not to rebuild but rather to go electronic.

Given the $18/day subscription to WIS, it's pretty easy and inexpensive to download everything you'll ever need. And if you forget something, well it's $36 and that's cheap, too.

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Kent Christensen
Albuquerque
'07 GL320CDI, '10 CL550. '01 Porsche Boxster
Two BMW motorcycles

You can get the alldatadiy subscription for somewhere around $15-$20 / year. It's basically a copy of the WIS with all TSB's included. For the MB's, I've found it usually has all I need, but not necessarily where I would expect to find it.
Don't forget to check your library too, you'd be surprised to see what some of them spent your money on.

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