Owner's manual rant
Laughing Gas
Joined: Apr 2003
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User friendliness of an on-line manual sux. Even a downloaded PDF isn't great, IMHO. I hate it when I think I have found info using a PDF search, but scrolling up or down I realize it's for a diesel or DRW. I get it, the permutation of configurations is astronomical, which logically complicates covering everything in the owner's manual. BUT, it's 2025. Somehow, my whole truck got built with the right components. I don't see why Ford doesn't customize manuals according to the build spec used to make it, seems like it would be easy. Start with a blank document with all the generic stuff, and if the build sheet say's a 7.3, add just 7.3 specific information. Geez...
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Tuned
Joined: Nov 2024
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I just went to helminc, it showed in stock, and I clicked all the way to add my info. Maybe that's where they say, "not really!"
Would this be something they compiled, or would it look like a real Ford manual like the olden days?
Would this be something they compiled, or would it look like a real Ford manual like the olden days?
5th Wheeling
Joined: Jan 2025
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You have a 2025. That one looks to be in stock. The 2024 manual is currently out of stock.
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Tuned
Joined: Nov 2024
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Thanks Spitfire1940, I didn't correlate the year. I just ordered one for my 2025. When I get it, I'm going to go through it with a black marker and redact anything not related to my truck to make it more/quicker readable.
5th Wheeling
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Mountain Pass
Joined: Dec 2024
Posts: 244
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From: New England
Nice one! Needed the chuckle.
Like everyone here, I am also a dinosaur and like to read a book. The HTML version is a PIA, though probably stays up to date. The PDF is closest to paper. I downloaded it to my iPad before it disappears down the road. Seeing that I have all this time waiting for a truck I am going through and creating a cheat sheet of key topics and relative page numbers. As to model specific info? If you have ever bought a new $$$ RV it is the same, even worse treatment. But you would think going electronic they could fix that, no?
So now I have to spend $58 of my own money to purchase a manual that probably costs Ford $5.95 to print in quantity. Well, I guess we are expecting too much where we are all spending only $70-100K for a truck.
Like everyone here, I am also a dinosaur and like to read a book. The HTML version is a PIA, though probably stays up to date. The PDF is closest to paper. I downloaded it to my iPad before it disappears down the road. Seeing that I have all this time waiting for a truck I am going through and creating a cheat sheet of key topics and relative page numbers. As to model specific info? If you have ever bought a new $$$ RV it is the same, even worse treatment. But you would think going electronic they could fix that, no?
So now I have to spend $58 of my own money to purchase a manual that probably costs Ford $5.95 to print in quantity. Well, I guess we are expecting too much where we are all spending only $70-100K for a truck.
Tuned
Joined: Sep 2009
Posts: 250
Likes: 84
From: Taxachusetts
Wow a solution looking for a problem. Do you wonder how to use your silver spoon as well. Old owners manuals used to tell you how to set valve lash and replace points. Now they tell you not to drink the battery acid. I’ve never once needed to read a stupid useless owners manual. It’s a truck put it in drive and go. If you have to read a manual to drive maybe you should be driving. We have homeless single mothers with starving children and you’re wanting an easier to read owners manual. Wow I’m floored.
you just spent 100k on a junker truck they know they can rip you off they already did once they know they can do it again. $58 for an owners manual to tell you not to drink the battery acid. Fool you once shame on you fool me twice …….
if you can’t afford the manual you can’t afford fuel
if you can’t afford the manual you can’t afford fuel
Nice one! Needed the chuckle.
Like everyone here, I am also a dinosaur and like to read a book. The HTML version is a PIA, though probably stays up to date. The PDF is closest to paper. I downloaded it to my iPad before it disappears down the road. Seeing that I have all this time waiting for a truck I am going through and creating a cheat sheet of key topics and relative page numbers. As to model specific info? If you have ever bought a new $$$ RV it is the same, even worse treatment. But you would think going electronic they could fix that, no?
So now I have to spend $58 of my own money to purchase a manual that probably costs Ford $5.95 to print in quantity. Well, I guess we are expecting too much where we are all spending only $70-100K for a truck.
Like everyone here, I am also a dinosaur and like to read a book. The HTML version is a PIA, though probably stays up to date. The PDF is closest to paper. I downloaded it to my iPad before it disappears down the road. Seeing that I have all this time waiting for a truck I am going through and creating a cheat sheet of key topics and relative page numbers. As to model specific info? If you have ever bought a new $$$ RV it is the same, even worse treatment. But you would think going electronic they could fix that, no?
So now I have to spend $58 of my own money to purchase a manual that probably costs Ford $5.95 to print in quantity. Well, I guess we are expecting too much where we are all spending only $70-100K for a truck.
Kills me how people who can't keep their narcissistic opinions to themselves as opposed to doing what their parents (should have) taught them. You know, if you have nothing good to say, shut the hell up.
More Turbo
Joined: Nov 2015
Posts: 659
Likes: 312
From: Fort Worth
Nice one! Needed the chuckle.
Like everyone here, I am also a dinosaur and like to read a book. The HTML version is a PIA, though probably stays up to date. The PDF is closest to paper. I downloaded it to my iPad before it disappears down the road. Seeing that I have all this time waiting for a truck I am going through and creating a cheat sheet of key topics and relative page numbers. As to model specific info? If you have ever bought a new $$$ RV it is the same, even worse treatment. But you would think going electronic they could fix that, no?
So now I have to spend $58 of my own money to purchase a manual that probably costs Ford $5.95 to print in quantity. Well, I guess we are expecting too much where we are all spending only $70-100K for a truck.
Like everyone here, I am also a dinosaur and like to read a book. The HTML version is a PIA, though probably stays up to date. The PDF is closest to paper. I downloaded it to my iPad before it disappears down the road. Seeing that I have all this time waiting for a truck I am going through and creating a cheat sheet of key topics and relative page numbers. As to model specific info? If you have ever bought a new $$$ RV it is the same, even worse treatment. But you would think going electronic they could fix that, no?
So now I have to spend $58 of my own money to purchase a manual that probably costs Ford $5.95 to print in quantity. Well, I guess we are expecting too much where we are all spending only $70-100K for a truck.
Tuned
Joined: Aug 2010
Posts: 275
Likes: 30
From: Metro Detroit
I ordered a copy today as well... we spent almost half an hour trying to figure out the BRAKE light on the dash. Turns out it was the parking brake was engaged and we had to figure out how to disengage it. It's a PITA to look up anything on the screen.
More Turbo
Joined: Nov 2015
Posts: 659
Likes: 312
From: Fort Worth
I thought if equipped with heated mirrors they usually come on when needed . I’ve had them on other trucks and didn’t remember turning them on unless they were tied to defrost settings.