Haynes Manuals & Similar
Discussion
I've just found out madness runs in the family! Apparently my nephew would not go to sleep unless his mother read to him from a Peugeot Haynes Manual! 
Good lad.
Anybody else on here collect 'em? I seem to have collected a huge stash over the years.
If you've got an old motor there's a good chance I'll have a manual for it, which could be yours for a few quid.
Anyhoo..that's not the point of the post. Anybody else got an unreasonable collection of weird items?
Good lad.Anybody else on here collect 'em? I seem to have collected a huge stash over the years.
If you've got an old motor there's a good chance I'll have a manual for it, which could be yours for a few quid.
Anyhoo..that's not the point of the post. Anybody else got an unreasonable collection of weird items?
I have accumulated a huge stash of these too - mostly for cars I have never owned! They're all a bit dog eared and scabby and I keep promising the wife I'll throw them out but I can never bring myself to do it. I don't want the hassle of ebaying them all for 50p each either. When I eventually get a garage they'll make a nice reference library incase I decide to buy a 70's or 80's rust bucket!
Ricky_M said:
I always give mine away when I sell a car and now I have another Focus, got to shell out £15 for a new one or however much they cost!
Think they are over £20 now.I too love perusing the haynes book. It all seems so simple when you read it..then when you get to the car, you realise you also need to do the bits in section 3.5, 5.6 and 4.8.
Never seen one for a TVR though!vrooom said:
old Hayes manual are much nicer to read than modern ones.
Ain't that the truth. Indeed, many of them seemed to be pretty much just the manufacturer's workshop manual reprinted in a different cover... my Morris Minor one had a very BMC look to the typeface, the drawings and many of the photos. The modern ones are s
te, badly laid out, hard to read, wimp out of telling you the really difficult bits which are what you need them for in the first place and generally have a "can't do" attitude to anything remotely complicated.2 sMoKiN bArReLs said:
I've just found out madness runs in the family! Apparently my nephew would not go to sleep unless his mother read to him from a Peugeot Haynes Manual! Good lad.
A big favourite of my pre-school reading was a book which explained all the workings of the motor car, with lots of detailed text and lovely clear, detailed engravings of cross-sections of all the mechanical parts. It was a soft-cover thing, format of foolscap pages joined short edges together... and it gradually fell apart, got sellotaped back together, the sellotape lost its stick and it fell apart again, and the bits got lost. I'd love to still have a copy but I'm buggered if I can remember the title, publisher, or any other details I could use to track one down. Good lad.2 sMoKiN bArReLs said:
Anyhoo..that's not the point of the post. Anybody else got an unreasonable collection of weird items?
I've got a collection of empty yogurt pots sticking out of the bin, stacked one inside another, which is well over four feet tall now and I'm trying to avoid emptying the bin to see how high I can get it Pigeon said:
I've got a collection of empty yogurt pots sticking out of the bin, stacked one inside another, which is well over four feet tall now and I'm trying to avoid emptying the bin to see how high I can get it
seen it done with beer cans, never yoghurt. It must be a cultural thing....Taffer said:
TheLurker said:
I too love perusing the haynes book. It all seems so simple when you read it..then when you get to the car, you realise you also need to do the bits in section 3.5, 5.6 and 4.8.
Not forgetting 'assembly is the opposite of disassembly'........is it fk. 
2 sMoKiN bArReLs said:
Pigeon said:
I've got a collection of empty yogurt pots sticking out of the bin, stacked one inside another, which is well over four feet tall now and I'm trying to avoid emptying the bin to see how high I can get it
seen it done with beer cans, never yoghurt. It must be a cultural thing....
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