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Haynes Manual? Where did it start? and Why?
Posted: Wed Aug 24, 2005 1:50 pm
by MadManMike
This question has been bugging me for ages.... how did the HM come about?
It's your average drivers bible I reckon!
Posted: Wed Aug 24, 2005 4:13 pm
by ste mk1lx
Posted: Wed Aug 24, 2005 4:40 pm
by MadManMike
Posted: Wed Aug 24, 2005 4:46 pm
by inder
Re: Haynes Manual? Where did it start? and Why?
Posted: Wed Aug 24, 2005 5:44 pm
by bstardchild
MadManMike wrote:It's your average drivers bible I reckon!
Always be carefull with information in Haynes - good example on 24V DOHC Vauxhal engines is they stipulate that the exhaust cam is an inlet cam and the inlet cam is an exhaust cam for a lot of german cars!!! Basicly the error comes about cos one cam has E on it and the other has A - they assume E = exhaust - it's not!!!
Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2005 1:25 am
by omicron
Hate the bloody things - get a Russek manual.
Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2005 9:17 am
by AshLeMacq
Hope you enjoy it Jill!
Where did you take it? I've got a few scratches that I'd like sorting out, will any bodywork shop be able to sort them out?
Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2005 9:53 am
by Si_GTi
AshLeMacq wrote:Hope you enjoy it Jill!
Where did you take it? I've got a few scratches that I'd like sorting out, will any bodywork shop be able to sort them out?
Erm... wrong thread mate I think
Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2005 10:01 am
by AshLeMacq
Si_GTi wrote:AshLeMacq wrote:Hope you enjoy it Jill!
Where did you take it? I've got a few scratches that I'd like sorting out, will any bodywork shop be able to sort them out?
Erm... wrong thread mate I think
hahaha.
Woopsie
With great consistance I make myself look an arse in this forum haha!
*changes name*
Cheers mate
Posted: Fri Aug 26, 2005 12:22 pm
by SpikeyG40
the older manuals seem much better with better desriptions and images of how stuff goes together!
for example, polo mk3 steering columb surround - remove three screws from undernieth, unclip! how the hell do you unclip it then? obviously we found out by doing it but it wasn't very clear at all!
sorry for the lame example!
Posted: Sun Aug 28, 2005 3:33 am
by Tahrey1043
yeah the mk3 manual is a puddle of white smelly stuff
unfortunately it's about the best i personally have to hand apart from this place and occasionally porka. was going to invest in a mk2 one as well, but i think having to pick through the two and try to figure out which of two different and alternately patchy methods was the best might drive one mad.
it's completely lacking in any decent information on e.g. dealing with gearbox oil, and a few other things.
What's a Russek manual then? And indeed what other alternatives are there, as Haynes is easily the best known and most common, surely it can't have the monopoly but it's making like microsoft on a computer.
