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Dear 93-940 & 99-V70,
Good p.m. and may this find you well. Thoroughness is next to G-dliness!
I do not have the honor to be an engineer. I'm an economist, who occasionally turns a wrench. You definitely do not want me to do any form of surgery, even though I'm pretty good with a Sawzall.
Any written repair procedure is intended to help the first-timer. Those, with experience, do not need a written procedure. The first-timer, by definition, does not know how the job is done. Therefore, to get the first-timer to do the job correctly, the steps should be set forth clearly, and no knowledge should be presupposed.
I'd rather provide someone with information that they don't need, then to have them get half-way into a job, and meet with something, about which they had not been briefed. For, if I'd not induced them to start the job, they'd not have a partly disassembled vehicle, and no easy way to put right what needed it.
Volvo Tech manuals presuppose users are full-time, bona-fide technicians. Thus, many steps are left out. The trouble is that experimenting with Volvos can get expensive. Simple plastic trim pieces can cost big bucks. Triggering an airbag deployment - apart from personal injury - can cost $1K or more. I recognize that if Volvo manuals were written they way I'd write them, one would need a garage just to store the manuals.
In short, I appreciate your appreciation of my thoroughness. My model happens to be the engineers, who designed these cars. They are deeply thoughtful persons, and without them, we'd not be nearly as safe.
Yours faithfully,
spook
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