What to do with all of those manuals!

[Pigman1]

We use a scanner and save copies of all manuals, upgrades, maintenance done, recalls and other good ideas you find in places like these forums. one copy to my laptop and another to a backup. When we traded our 2008 Bus we gave the dealer a disk with the same info on it. He loved it and the next owner of the Bus called me a few times to clarify a point or two after he had owned the Bus a few months.



While we were waiting for the dealer to complete final inspections and dealer prep, a few of his sales people came in and copied the disk we made so they had a personal copy of some of the more way-out system instructions.

[kendall69]

Manuals are worth BIG MONEY on ebay. I had several from sold vehciles new untouched manuals or worshop books. They sold for HUGE money.

[BMGM37]

I have the 2 bags of manuals that I got with the coach but what I do is go online and download a PDF of all the manuals including ones the factory didn’t supply, along with any instillation manuals and I upload them to my Dropbox account. This way you can bring them up, keyword search them and access them at any time. With Dropbox, I can access them from any device or computer any where I can log on. I find it very convienient.

[rjreiffer]

Originally Posted by av8tor2

Yep. All of mine, being a 2017/2016, are available online. I could use the space in a cabinet for more beer.

Now I have to agree, the priorities are right but sometimes the internet still doesn’t exist in certain areas! (Do you have room on a small laptop that you could take with you as well?)

[Teamfoxy]

Originally Posted by rjreiffer

Now I have to agree, the priorities are right but sometimes the internet still doesn’t exist in certain areas! (Do you have room on a small laptop that you could take with you as well?)

Neither of my last two coaches came with manuals for anything. I downloaded everything in PDF and store them on my laptop and backed up on a thumb drive. If I need a page or two to work on something, I just print out those pages and not the whole manual.

Winnebago is very good on wiring diagrams and documentation for any model it has ever made. Norcold, Attwood and Suburban are as well. Coachmen was bought out by Forrest River in 2009, and their documentation leaves something to be desired. They try to cover everything they make in one generic manual, so finding specific information about your coach isn't easy. Dometic is good about user manuals, but it was harder to find SERVICE MANUALS for my appliances. Eventually I did. Lippert has all the service manuals on-line for their slides and jacks, even the discontinued ones.

[AE Wanderer]

I have all my manuals. Hard copy in factory soft sided suit case, electronic copies in the cloud.