In order to access any information, you must first select the specific vehicle you would like to research.
Using the left navigation window (Figure 1), there are a series of drop-down menus that will give you the ability to assemble the vehicle you would like to research. Each drop-down menu is relational to the menu that is above it. To start any search you must first select from the highest menu and work your way down until a vehicle is created. This ensures that every drop-down menu has a selection before any search can be enabled. Detailed instructions are below.
Figure 1
1. Select the Year of the vehicle you would like to research (Figure 2).
Figure 2
2. Select the vehicle Make (Figure 3).
Figure 3
3. Select the vehicle Model (Figure 4).
Figure 4
4. The page will automatically refresh between each drop down menu. Once you have selected the model, select the Search button and ChiltonLibrary will return the categories available for your vehicle.
5. Depending on the vehicle you have selected, you may able to retrieve up to three categories of information (displayed in the bullets below). You can cycle through these categories by selecting each button on the top navigation bar (Figure 6) or you can choose from the links that appear within the right window pane (Figure 7). If a certain category is unavailable, the text in the top navigation button will be grayed out and that link will not appear in the right window pane.
Bulletins/Recalls
Maintenance
Repair
Figure 6
Figure 7
Note: Once you have selected your vehicle, any navigation in the program will be in relation to the vehicle you have created. If you want to research a new vehicle you must select the drop-down menus in the left navigation window once again.