2018 Trax service manual
After waiting for several weeks beyond purchasing our 2018 Trax, Helm Inc. finally announced the availability of both paper and USB memory stick versions of the 2018 service manual. I called and was told that I would not be able to print from the memory stick version. So, I decided to go with the paper manual as I have had several of the paper manuals for our older GM cars and liked them. The painful part was a price tag that's essentially double of what I've paid in the past. With shipping cost, I paid $429.36 for the set.
There's a LOT more to this set of books compared to those I've had in the past. All of my older service manual sets consisted of two volumes (each averaging about 1-3/4" thick). The set for the 2018 Trax (and the Buick Encore) is made up of SIX volumes, several of which are fully 2" thick. The shipping weight was about 32 lbs.
The contents of the manual set are MUCH better than the older manuals I have had. The pages are made of a heavy duty bright white stock. Printing quality is superb. All the graphics is superbly done. I'm glad that I got the set of books.
One thing that I've done to make using the books easier is scanning and printing all the tables of contents so that I can pull the correct volume for a project without having to pull a book out to look at the table of contents (all of which is printed in every one of the volumes).
