Has anyone subscribed to the Workshop Manual on Motorcraft.com (the one for $16.95/month for one vehicle)?

Is it better than the DVD manuals (like the ones on Ebay for $28)?

Is Motorcraft.com Manual the same, or better, as the paper manuals ($165) from Helm?

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I just viewed Motorcraft.com. I did not see any hard copy manuls. I suspect you may be posting about over the internet manuals?

I would not find over-the-internet manuals to be the better choice over hard copy printed manuals. I have the Helms and I can go from paragraph to paragraph or chapter to chapter to chace down a squawk, and take my Helms to to my vehicle. I could not do this with an internet manual.

For Info: For every previous Ford pickup I purchased I would go to a parts house and buy a good maintenance manual. With the purchase of my '04 pickup I found that good in-store maintenance manuals stopped at year 2002. I don't know the reason for this, except that perhaps Ford interceded to channel owners to the Dealers?- - - However, also with my previous years I purchased the complete factory Manual. I did this with Helms and even though the manual is expensive, $165.00, I have found the convenience alone worth the purchase price. I can look up squawks and perhaps be advised that my concern was of no interest, or I can create a path of wrenching and parts to fix my rig at a very low price and at my convenience. With Dealer labor at $75.00 per hour a simple thing like learning air flow, panel removal, or tracing electrical (which I did for my OEM tranny temp guage) well pays for my Helms in both cost and convenience.

 

I got a 2 volume factory manual off of E Bay for $60. It has saved me twice that much so far plus it has most of the part numbers.

 

alldata DIY

Alldata DIY is $25 per year for the first vehicle, $15 per year for additional vehicle.

While owning a book may be good, Alldata is the only source besides Ford's in-house web browser that gives you all the factory information. Alldata gives TSB's, updated part numbers and procedures, and other information that no book will have once it's printed, because the website is updated every time an update comes out. When was the last time a book salesman came out and stuck new pages in the book? Besides that, you can pay for 6 years of Alldata for the cost of one book.

Just my $.02