Ive been shopping around for a service manual for my 03 Cooper S. I bought the red cover service manual for the Coop, but that was a joke. Its as think as a comic book. I thought it was going to be like the ones you buy at the local auto parts store that is about a inch or so thick. (Like a Haynes manual.) This manual is the bare bones manual. Anyway, I figured I will have to spend the money to get a good one, but now I find 2 diffrent service manuals with the same cover
This one here, link below has 968 pages for $100.00
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/MOST-...spagenameZWD1V

This one here, with the same cover has 362 pages for $60.00.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/2002-...spagenameZWD1V

How many diffrent service manuals are out there for the MINI? How is it that one has almost 3 times the pages then the other and have the same cover? Am I missing something?

 

According to the publisher's web site ( http://www.bentleypublishers.com/product.htm?code=mc04 ), the service manual you're looking at has 968 pages, so the second seller is either ignorant of his manual or just lying. In any case, amazon.com has the same service manual for US$ 63, which maybe a better deal.

 

wonder how long it will be until a similar work exists for '05-06 ( and '07+ convertible) models?

 

Thanks... I'll have to check it out over @ amazon.com