[janus_77]

If you want to include a digital manual with a kit, I'd try to go with an USB stick instead. Since a lot of laptops dont accept a CD.

Personally I wouldn't mind if the kit came without instructions, you can always download them. And after the 1st build I normally dont use a manual anymore.

But I think there are a LOT of guys who peek in the manual while at the track to see the length of a bolt, or if they installed the diff the right , so the "online version" does have to be A4-size so it remains easy to print.

So going on the assumption that drivers who order their car's online don't need a CD / USB stick, since they have internet access and can just download it, I wouldn't bother at all with including manual for this market. Just make it VERY clear on the box that you have to get the manual online, before you get a bunch of e-mails with the message " you forgot to include the manual "


That being said, there a still quite a few drivers around who don't know / care anything about internet and computers. But these will also be the drivers who get their rides for their LHS. So for this market printed manuals should at least be available. So a shop can give a manual when someone doesn't have internet / computer access.

Thinking about this, an internet forum is probably not the best place to ask this question. Because anyone on there obviously will have internet access and will be ( a lot ) less likely to care for a printed manual.....