Haynes or emanual online?

reeac

Akom wrote: »

:rotfl: I like your thinking.

Thanks everyone for your input. I think the Haynes manual is the way forward as you know where you stand with that.

I'll use Emmanuelle as a treat after servicing the car

To drag the e-manual under the car you need to sing "Oh.come, Oh.come, e-maaanuel".

KillerWatt

reeac wrote: »

To drag the e-manual under the car you need to sing "Oh.come, Oh.come, e-maaanuel".

Or print out the relevant page and take it under the bonnet with you.


@ Akom,

Be careful with some of those online manuals, a friend bought one for his Kwaka and the quality was abysmal.
It was nothing more than a scan of the Haynes manual, and had been done at p1$$ poor resolution so as soon as you magnified the page to (say) read something in small print it became completely illegible.

Haynes manuals do have a slight rep for getting it wrong sometimes, but I'd personally favour the hardback Haynes over a PDF any day.

Old.Sparky_3

I bought an e-manual and it was absolute garbage, no wiring diagrams, other features were for different vehicles. E-mailed them four times, never got a reply. Stick to Haynes, tried and tested for years.

colino

Have a look on a make specific forum and no doubt they will point you to the many discs on ebay that contain an awful lot more than poor old Haynes (absolutely rubbish nowadays).

forgotmyname

Yeah the CDs on ebay will have a copy of the haynes manual minus a few missing pages and lots of files bulked up with freely available and mostly useless data.

Join a few forums for your make/model and get a haynes manual.

I buy them new off amazon sometimes cheaper than 2nd hand ones off ebay.

Charity shops?

colino

forgotmyname, just to clear it up for you I wasn't referring to any electronic rehashes of Haynes (which I've never come across) but the excellent resources that some creative souls have made available that have all of the info. available to workshop techs, and in many cases, Haynes don't cater for at all.

red_eye

colino wrote: »

forgotmyname, just to clear it up for you I wasn't referring to any electronic rehashes of Haynes (which I've never come across) but the excellent resources that some creative souls have made available that have all of the info. available to workshop techs, and in many cases, Haynes don't cater for at all.

this is what im looking for dont really want to pay for £700 for autodata

tomsurrey_2

Hi. I don’t normally write reviews but I feel that I must have a say on this product from emanulasonline. First off, if you’re not PC literate then this is not for you as what you have to do is to first download whats known as a VMWare and then load a separate / spare windows installation like an old WXP programme then you have to open the VMWare section and then point this at the saved manual on the main PC then you have to fill a lot of details about your car and theres loads of details required and then the manual will work, but I gave up and am willing to lose the £9.99 that I paid. I think its dreadful and I was expecting a simple download and then open the manual and go from there but each time you want to look at the manual you have to go through the same process of opening the VMWare that you downloaded and its just soooo messy and would say to anyone wanting a manual - buy one thats easy to use!! I would NEVER EVER use these manuals again!!!!!!!

Richard53

The trouble with manuals online is that you haven't a clue what you are getting. I have had everything from a bad scan of a fingermarked Haynes manual to a brilliant indexed, searchable copy of the factory manual. Joining an owners' forum is a good way to find out what is best, and occasionally you will find a link to a free copy. I have factory manuals for the last 5 motorbikes I have owned, and I think I paid about £10 for them in total.

I get a Haynes for every vehicle I own, and a factory manual if I can track one down. The factory manuals assume you are a trained technician, so they often leave the obvious stuff out. Haynes assumes you are a numpty and puts everything in. If you have both, you can usually work it all out. Haynes have a reputation for inaccuracy, but to be honest I have never found a serious error in any of them, and I find them very valuable. The great thing about a PDF manual is that you can print the relevant pages out, take them to the working area, get them oily, and bin them.

geoff.owen

I have just spent £11.99 on an emanual for my Peugeot 207 SW because Haynes do not cover 2011 models yet.
I have wasted about 4 hours down loading a huge fill then unzipping and cannot open the VMWare files as do not have a spare windows facility.
Have now given up. Wot a waste!!