American manufacturers discourage the purchase of service manuals.
They do this by pricing them very high. $150, or more, is not uncommon.
Not exactly the $20 for the complete Nissan Service manual.......
That is why there is a cottage industry for making service manuals by independents such as Chilton and Haynes books avail at any Parts Company like Advance, Carquest, etc.
Problem is.......they are always well behind the actual release of the cars.........and often they just figure....what the heck,. it's a caddy right ? If we just copy our write up on the El Doradado, it'll probably be close........
And maybe it will be. These books sell for $20-$30 and are generally better than nothing.
And then there are the services used by independent garages.
They need accuracy, but can't afford to spend +$150 each for every SM out there......
So a lot of them subscribe to ALLDATA.
ALLDATA also sells memberships to the general public, limited I think to 1 or 2 different "books". Do a search.
It's cheap IIRC.
Like $20/yr......
but.........again, they have to take the info and publish it in such away to honor the Copyright of GM (I don't know if they license the gM stuff or generate all their own stuff.......)
so anyway, they run a year behind on new models............. And nobody cares because the dealer fixes things for the 1st year under warranty anyway.......
Wish it were different, but it's not.
No more Download the Murano SM for $20........
Homer
