89 Rover repair book - recommendations?

in article EdGFc.3459$JR4.3419@attbi_s54, Bill at reply_to snipped-for-privacy@noSpam.com wrote on 3/7/04 11:15 pm:

Most of us have the Haynes manual, which is OK for a general repair and maintainance guide. You can always ask here as well as the book I speak of is often known as "the Haynes Book of Lies".

Thanks, the only problem I have now is locating the "thermostat" for the air conditioner. I'll check and see where I can get a Haynes.

in article TMJFc.19793$%_6.13235@attbi_s01, Bill at reply_to snipped-for-privacy@noSpam.com wrote on 4/7/04 3:17 am:

Halfords is where we got our last Haynes manual, but have recently bought most of our more recent books from amazon.co.uk

Thanks, I'll look there

Thanks, I'll look there

Button bashing in practice for another round of Daley Thompson's Decathlon, Bill left Shakespeare to the monkeys by typing...

/rant on

Factory workshop manual - essential, pays for itself on first service, and isn't a piece of shit like Haynes. (Missing specs, inaccurate info, crap instructions, pants photos, ploppy diagrams) Haynes used to be decent but now they're most useful if you run out of one-ply shiny-white. The last straw for me was when gearbox rebuilds were removed from the books to be added to a 'generic' gearbox book - to make more money for Haynes as engine rebuilds are more complex (IMNSHO) but are still included. Their next logical step would seem to be becoming merely handbooks (like you get when you buy a new car) with everything except checking fluid levels and tyre pressures available in specialised manuals (one book for MkII Golf & LT77s g'box rebuilds? What a bunch of f**king balloons!)

Buy the correct _Factory_ workshop manual and you'll never regret it. Or waste part of the price of it on Haynes - fine for basic servicing (mostly) but f**k-all use when you need more background info or a comprehensive picture of what's going on..

/rant off

You'll probably be able to find fwm's online (I have all Series, 101, military, ffr and Sth African 6cyl (all free - Landrover won't supply/ support them anymore so I don't think I'll be DRuM'd into court) and there is a website with all the FWM's on CD (US but someone should have a UK version) for about $50. I would have bought it but I'm not going to help lessen GWB's trade deficit ;-)

On or around Tue, 6 Jul 2004 14:03:17 +0100, weallhatebillgates enlightened us thusly:

mind, at least Haynes do take photos. The FWM hasn't got such. sometimes, the photos in Haynes are useful.

I find both useful, in fact - some things are hard to find in the FWM, and easy to find in Haynes.

Further, not everything is in the FWM either; although most of what isn't is also not in the HBoL. found HBoL has better wiring diagrams, mind you, I think it was Clymer, some motorcycle manual other than Haynes anyway, used to have colour wiring diagrams, which saves all the hassle of looking at the colour code on page umpty-three to see what GU/BE means.

Thanks for the input.

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