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You completely missed the point. Manufacturer manuals can be hard to come by, but with older vehicles there are often after market manuals that were reasonably priced and quite exhaustive in details down to the proper torque of a bolt.

YouTube generally covers just enough to have destroyed the market for real repair manuals and over half of the top YouTube results are someone that figured out how to do something, but doesn't really know what they are doing so they are like, "Just shove a q-tip in there it fixed it for me." SMH



>You completely missed the point. Manufacturer manuals can be hard to come by, but with older vehicles there are often after market manuals that were reasonably priced and quite exhaustive in details down to the proper torque of a bolt.

No I did not miss the point. Yes the manuals are great for having torque specs and proper steps for diagnosing and replacing components. YOU missed my point: That the steps themselves are terrible for DIY people DUE TO THE DESIGN OF THE CAR. It sounds like you didn't even read my comment in full. I HAVE the manual for this car. It is still a massive PITA to work on this car vs the Mazda (of which I also have the Haynes manual).

>YouTube generally covers just enough to have destroyed the market for real repair manuals and over half of the top YouTube results are someone that figured out how to do something, but doesn't really know what they are doing so they are like, "Just shove a q-tip in there it fixed it for me." SMH

You are really dismissing a lot of additional knowledge that is gained by crowd sourcing with your snarky comment. This particular module controls the buttons for the windows. It is a 300$ part. The fan community figured out it stops working because a 1mm piece of plastic breaks off and stops contacting a rubber membrane. A tiny piece of a q-tip fits the membrane cavity perfectly. The Haynes manual states to replace the whole 300$ part (on a car that is worth only around ~3k since it is 15+ years old). If you want to waste that kind of money go right ahead but for everyone else all of this focus on the car has uncovered interesting fixes like this.




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