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Not buying the hype around ditching physical manuals for online videos
Everyone at my shop says video guides are better, but I find they skip over small details that books catch (like torque spec quirks on older models). Last month, a rookie missed a crucial step from a video and we had to redo a whole brake job.
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aaronwebb6mo ago
Learned that the hard way when a video missed a critical spec.
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paulw536mo ago
Maybe @aaronwebb just had a bad video, lol. A good tutorial shows you the hands-on stuff a manual can't even describe right.
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sagem606mo ago
Unless you actually read it.
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shane_hayes6mo ago
Videos make you sloppy.
Manuals have the good stuff that gets cut from videos to keep them short. Those tiny details matter when you're working on anything complex or old. Skipping a single line in a book is harder than missing a step in a fast tutorial. It's worth keeping the paper around just to avoid those costly redo jobs.
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