service book

hi, i was looking into a service book 4 for sl2 and i was wondering what everyone's opinion is about service book. the ones i found are the haynes and the chition but after reading my manuel it says that saturn has a service book that if i want it to contact my local saturn dealer. now which one would be better in terms of making it more helpful..etc

The official Saturn service manual would be the best, by far. But be ready to shell out some dough. Could cost over 100 bones. Chilton or Haynes are adaquate.

^^^ agreed ^^^

hanyes and chiltons are just poor generic and very shortened versons of the factory service manual, usely with errors and oversights(every now and then they mention carburators and distributors, two things saturns don't have) go to a parts store and flip thru a hanyes or clitions, then go to your dealership, and say you are thinking about buying a FSM,and would like to see one(its acually a set of 8(?) books)hopefully they will let you take a quick read. the differance is amazing. but for the cost.... hanyes or clitions will be fine for a few minor jobs, but i wouldn't even think of rebuilding a engine off of one.

well the only things that i would be doing my self is minor stuff like brakes, changing the difference types of fluids, stuff like that maybe stuff like an alternator or what ever. but diffelenty not major stuff like timing chain replacment, taking apart my tranny to fix what ever . would saturn even still make the books for the s series?

well technicly saturn doesn't make them, they write it then out source the printing to another compuny. best yes they are still sold.

ok cool

i heard that fsm's are very technical and complicated for the common diy'er and that haynes/chiltons manuals are based on their own teardowns and the wording is more suited for the less knowledgable of cars... is this right?
but i guess for the major work a fsm would be the right choice, along with the ability to comprehend the info.