good labor guides
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bwitt
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I use Mitchell1. Mostly for the service manuals, but the labor guides are good, too. It's expensive and geared towards the full-time shop.
toolstools
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All data is what we had when attended auto tech in high school. 4 years ago. Easy to use, easy to understand, had flat rate time and diagrams, service bulletins and was simple to upgrade. For the 18 months of afternoons through the week I got to use it, I liked it. But then again, I have nothing to compare it to.
Lotek
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For the diyer or small shop, individual car guides from Alldata seem to work well, we went that route at my last shop. Not especially impressed with AutoMD, seems more like a referral service.
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chris142
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We use the one on the link. Its pretty useless. It over charges for easy stuff and undercharges for hard jobs.I had a thread about it a while back.
sloppyeggs
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Alldata is really good. Mitchell isn't bad either, their search function is kind of like google in the sense that it will give you way too many things that youre not really looking for. On a side note, Mitchell's wiring diagrams are top notch.
I've used the trial of RealTime Labor Guide, it is okay for a budget labor guide. On many jobs it actually quotes RealTime, meaning it is quoting what the job actually takes, not what the manufacture supplied labor guide says it should take (of course normally in their favor).
We also have 3 licenses for AllData which is good. We log into AllData a few times a week, most of the information is pretty generic. My techs are all experienced and it usually just takes up time for them to log in and check out procedures. It is invaluable for torque specifications.
If you are doing a lot of electrical repair or need diagrams, I've found that Mitchell has better ones, the OEM and a lot of 3rd party supplied diagrams that go further in depth. I don't have Mitchell, but a neighboring shop does and I have used it for diagrams not available on AllData (or as we call it NoData sometimes).
We also have 3 licenses for AllData which is good. We log into AllData a few times a week, most of the information is pretty generic. My techs are all experienced and it usually just takes up time for them to log in and check out procedures. It is invaluable for torque specifications.
If you are doing a lot of electrical repair or need diagrams, I've found that Mitchell has better ones, the OEM and a lot of 3rd party supplied diagrams that go further in depth. I don't have Mitchell, but a neighboring shop does and I have used it for diagrams not available on AllData (or as we call it NoData sometimes).