GM now offering the Factory Service Manual as a subscription?!?

[CrashTestDummy]

I've been considering getting a 2024/25 Sierra 1500 to replace our '02 2500HD, since it's getting old, and I'm thinking it'll be the last vehicle I probably buy and I'd like something with a warranty. Anyway, since I usually have factory service manuals (FSM) for every vehicle I own, I went searching the Helm website to see how much the FSM for one of these would cost. They do NOT list a FSM for 2020+ model car vehicles. Is that true?!? Can the only way you can get access to a GM FSM is to have a freaking subscription?? I really prefer paper copies I can thumb through, as electronic/PDF copies really are terrible to try to find stuff in, and you HAVE to have some tablet/phone running all the time to reference them.

This could change my thoughts on a new vehicle.

 

[homesick]

LOL, Microsoft strikes again- You can't buy products, you can only rent permission to use them. John Deere is a poster child for this.

joe

 

[PPV_2018]

Years ago (almost 10 years) my best friend bought an old computer that had TONS of awesome programs on it. I mean everything from MS office to a hard copy (not subscription based) of adobe photoshop and all their other programs. It was a gold mine. It had so many programs and everything was installed, registered, full unlocked copies. Stuff that you cannot “buy” any more, everything is now a “service” and not a “product” that you can buy.

One day i came by and asked him where is the computer?!!? He said he had to pawn it, but that he’d go get it back in a week or so. A bad stroke of luck and he couldn’t get the computer out of pawn. Lost forever. Gotta be f*ckin joking. to this day i still give him a hard time about that.

Anyways . . .

IF true that fsm is now subscription only, i suppose you could find someone that has the subscription and pay them to turn it into a pdf and sell it to you.. all 47,382 pages that is . . .