I also had a communication from smartusa regarding online service manuals. I'll give them another month and I'll contact them again. I very much expressed my concern about amount for subscription, asking them to only charge for maintaining the system and not trying to make it a money making product line. Owners and independent garages won't be able to afford high subscription fees like major dealers. My Mini dealer pays several thousand dollars a year for that service.

 

I got everything I will ever want from MBUSA for my ML350 on one CD. I hope that the same type of information will be avaliable soon for the Smart!! it is great and nice to have the official information.

 

I asked if it was going to be downloadable so I could use it on my laptop without web access, and she said yes. That implies to me that it won't be by subscription, but they could always use custom software to time-limit its use, I suppose. I hope not.

- dan

 

If you can download the original slug, will you be able to get updates?

 

Service Manual

Complete Service Manual is available on e-bay. Comes on a CD for about $90.-

 

That one may be for the 450. I'm sure I saw a warning about the e-bay service manual posted somewhere. I'll try to find it.

 

Evilution wrote something about being a total waste of money!

 

It's in the last two posts here...

http://www.smartcarofamerica.com/forums/f25/service-manual-16454/