SiliconAngel
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Hey guys,
I've been going over the documentation I got from the RAW when I received my car. I noticed a curious thing about the owner's manaul - I don't think its for my car!
The first thing I noticed was all the pictures / diagrams show the interior of a Left-Hand-Drive vehicle, which made me wonder if either the diagrams were screwed up somehow or they were using a manual for the USDM version... Then I noticed there were no page numbers and the overview page references are pretty much useless, the key pictures and description are completely wrong, the dimmer switch is wrong, the climate control isn't even THERE (it has some details of a rotar switch setup for aircon, but no VR4 has this) and nor are the interior lights.
This is as far as I've gotten so far, but I'm pretty confused. Does everyone else have the same thing? Are all the workshops giving us a copy of the same manual? And if so, why are they allowed to give us an incomplete manual that's not even for our cars??
Don't get me wrong, buying an import I didn't expect to get anything useful in English for it. But then, if a RAW is required by law to provide an English copy of the owners manual, surely they should be doing that, not just cheating and giving people a hacked-up copy of the USDM galant manual... There are going to be plenty of people who buy these cars who won't have any other reference for their car (at least, until they hit Google up and find us or ClubVR4).
Thoughts?
I've been going over the documentation I got from the RAW when I received my car. I noticed a curious thing about the owner's manaul - I don't think its for my car!
The first thing I noticed was all the pictures / diagrams show the interior of a Left-Hand-Drive vehicle, which made me wonder if either the diagrams were screwed up somehow or they were using a manual for the USDM version... Then I noticed there were no page numbers and the overview page references are pretty much useless, the key pictures and description are completely wrong, the dimmer switch is wrong, the climate control isn't even THERE (it has some details of a rotar switch setup for aircon, but no VR4 has this) and nor are the interior lights.
This is as far as I've gotten so far, but I'm pretty confused. Does everyone else have the same thing? Are all the workshops giving us a copy of the same manual? And if so, why are they allowed to give us an incomplete manual that's not even for our cars??
Don't get me wrong, buying an import I didn't expect to get anything useful in English for it. But then, if a RAW is required by law to provide an English copy of the owners manual, surely they should be doing that, not just cheating and giving people a hacked-up copy of the USDM galant manual... There are going to be plenty of people who buy these cars who won't have any other reference for their car (at least, until they hit Google up and find us or ClubVR4).
Thoughts?