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Old 01-18-2024, 01:12 PM   #22
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Originally Posted by MT-SS1LE View Post
How many pages are we talking for the complete service manual?
My 2018 manual is 10,000 pages.

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Originally Posted by OBD3 View Post
The average lenght of the the current vehicles service manuals from the time that obd 2 was brought in is 7 thousand pages with some vehicles now over 10k or 7 or 8 books. The price of these on Helm has gone up considerably if you wanted a paper copy and you get a break if you order the thumbdrive version. The Camaro being a unique vehicle and is not bundled with other vehicles should be no more that 8 thousand pages long. My Wifes Terrain Thumbdrive if i was to print it out would top out at 11,000 pages! My Suburban Thumbdrive is a more Reasonable 9900 pages lol. The advantage the thumbdrive has over the paper is its hyperlinked which will jump to the section that you need when in a job. I have looked for my 2023 on Helm but i dont think it will be there as GM wants you to use their system. I will just have be content with Alldata for now.
Indeed, all the graphs, diagrams, index, TOC and text sections are hyperlinked in the electronic version, which is super convenient.

Unfortunately, the official service manual comes on a copy protected USB stick that autoruns the decryption software when you plug it in(to a Windows machine), so it can't be used on Linux, or a phone, or even removed from the port during use. Another example of screwing paying customers over, while pirated copies downloaded from wrz sites have no limitations.
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