Someone mention Manuals? (Haynes, in particular)

OK, so my Mazda came with a Haynes manual. An OLD haynes manual.

WOW! Now, I have a Haynes for my Celica, my Corolla, and my soon to be
defunct Voyager. They were all printed within the last 5 years.

The manual with the Mazda was the older, grey-covered version. HOLY CRAP!
The difference of information is amazing. The older one has the Spark Plug
pictures, a complete reference to the car, and the disassembly and
reassembly descriptions and pictures are absolutely wonderful!

The newer ones aren't anywhere near as helpful. For example, the newer one
I just bought for the van didn't offer a very good description at all on
how to release the adjuster on the rear brakes. I guess they figured you
just knew this.

Also, all through the manual, it is talking about carbeurator. I could
swear this car has FI...it does. And the section marked ADDENDUM has all
the information needed concerning the FI, the 12-valve engine, and the
Hydraulic lifters on the 12 valve engine.

Too bad they aren't like this anymore...I may even try changing the timing
belt myself this time!

In article <etqdh.5438$sM2.4456@trndny05>
[email]Trueno@AE86.gts[/email]
"=?iso-2022-jp?q?Hachiroku_=1B$B%O%A%m%=2F=1B=28B?=" writes:
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> [comparing quality of old and recent Haynes manuals][/color]

You should email Haynes. IMHO they need to be told this, firmly.
--
Andrew Stephenson

But if your car is less than 5 or 10 years old they ain't got S%%t.


On Wed, 06 Dec 2006 15:09:04 GMT, [email]ames@deltrak.demon.co.uk[/email] (Andrew
Stephenson) wrote:
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>In article <etqdh.5438$sM2.4456@trndny05>
> [email]Trueno@AE86.gts[/email]
> "=?iso-2022-jp?q?Hachiroku_=1B$B%O%A%m%=2F=1B=28B?=" writes:
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>> [comparing quality of old and recent Haynes manuals][/color]
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>You should email Haynes. IMHO they need to be told this, firmly.[/color]

"Joe Lauton" <JL@Lauton2000.com> wrote in message
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> But if your car is less than 5 or 10 years old they ain't got S%%t.
>
>
> On Wed, 06 Dec 2006 15:09:04 GMT, [email]ames@deltrak.demon.co.uk[/email] (Andrew
> Stephenson) wrote:
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>>In article <etqdh.5438$sM2.4456@trndny05>
>> [email]Trueno@AE86.gts[/email]
>> "=?iso-2022-jp?q?Hachiroku_=1B$B%O%A%m%=2F=1B=28B?=" writes:
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>>> [comparing quality of old and recent Haynes manuals][/color]
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>>You should email Haynes. IMHO they need to be told this, firmly.[/color][/color]

Done!