Something In My Glovebox

[AirForceAngler]

So there I was the other day, kinda bored and decided to clean out the truck a little bit. Started sorting through papers in the glove box and I found this book in there. It was called "Owner's Manual" or something like that. Anyhow, I couldn't believe the information in there! Like, how the windows go up and down, how to change the locking settings for auto locks, when to use the tow-haul mode, what kind of oil I should put in the engine and everything! Even how I should have gone through some kind of break-in period! This is amazing! Anyone else have one of these?

[greentourismo]

are you being sarcastic? ;)

[TRCM]

Hey, and if you look hard enough, you can find it online too, and have a pdf copy on your computer............................

[Chevrolet1]

Nice find, good to have, but not a rarity. Read it, use it, know it. And who the hell has time to be bored? LOL.

[jro909]

i enjoyed reading my owner's manuel....knowledge is ammunition even if it is instructions on how to use the windows or start the vehicle...if people ever opened their's and read the maintance schedule they'd understand why their vehicles don't last

[c0boy]

I always read the manual a few times just for kicks to make sure I'm not doing something wrong. I liked the warning not to park over anything combustable like leaves. Really, exhaust systems get really hot, I did not know that.

[L76PWRD]

I read mine a couple of times, I still have the one from my 2006 Silverado.

[04SILVRADO]

Let me run out and check! I'll be right back!!

[AirForceAngler]

are you being sarcastic? ;)

 

Maybe just a bit.

[KMGZ400]

has anyone ever read the section in the manual that tells you how to drive?

[AirForceAngler]

has anyone ever read the section in the manual that tells you how to drive?

 

Not by the looks of the highways!

[Silverado4x4]

has anyone ever read the section in the manual that tells you how to drive?

 

Yeah and the one that tells you how to remove the gas cap, friggin amazing book aint it.

[Fobroader]

Christ, I was happy to find the part about how to open the doors and put the key in the ignition and start it.......there I was yelling at the dashboard and clapping hoping and praying the engine will come on......

[BigBlueLB756]

Yeah, but you just try to find something in there when you're REALLY in a hurry! Index could use some improvement. At least it's not in that fractured English you find in electronics manuals. Yet.

[MikeNH]

Yeah, but you just try to find something in there when you're REALLY in a hurry! Index could use some improvement. At least it's not in that fractured English you find in electronics manuals. Yet.

 

That brings me back to an article from Car and Driver I read a few years ago about the Ford Flex. It was written by PJ O'Rourke (who has some very funny books out there as well)-

 

There’s a large touch-screen computer console in the middle of the Flex’s dash. This will do anything from providing map directions to filing your federal income taxes. Or so we think. Our Flex came with lots of extras but no owner’s manual. It hadn’t been published yet. As a writer, I can understand how it takes time to craft that special style of car-manual prose and then send it to Mumbai and have it translated into Hindi by one class of sixth graders and translated back into English by another. But this meant that the extras on our Flex were mostly extra confusing. Figuring out trip mileage required more time at the computer than an average college freshman puts into her Facebook page during an entire school year.

 

 

On a related note, before I bought my truck I downloaded the manual for it and read just about all of it. When I pointed out a few things the sales guy didn't know when I finally bought my truck he asked how I knew so much and I told him. He looked at me like my hair was on fire.