Factory service manuals are books created
by car manufacturers and are often extremely detailed and through in their
advice and specifications.
Anyone in the car community will understand what this type of manual is,
however it can be very hard to obtain them in the real world.
Most of us need to settle for a book that
is created by a third party company who will either base their research from
information obtained via the original manufacturer (recommended) or lower
quality workshop manual publishing companies who disassemble the car to measure
the torque settings on each bolt, then reverse this information to produce a
manual (often unreliable).
You need to be careful when using a third party book on your type of car and
make sure you read the foreword and see for yourself how they actually put the
book together.
There are some sites along with ebay where you can find factory service manuals
on CD for purchase, these sources however can be unreliable as you can’t view
them beforehand to see if they are actually genuine factory service manuals,
there is no warranty and there is very thin details on what these manuals
actually contain.
Many of these are also in a format that
can’t be viewed on a mobile phone, which almost 70% of us rely upon to access
the internet these days.
The best option is finding a direct source
for original factory service manuals, this can be hard, most websites offering
this are not legitimate and instead funnel you down to a place you never
intended, it’s a horrible situation for anyone when they first try to find a
car manual online, there are often many dead ends.
One gem that we found however that we can confirm is legitimate is a site
called AllCarManuals.com. They
have existed for a long time and originally only offered a small amount of
workshop manuals, but now they have extended heavily and cover over 30 makes of
vehicle and 200 individual models of car to download a manual for.
We highly recommend this website to source your manuals from, you can visit their website now to see if your car workshop manual is available.