Finding an Owner's Manual - Tilted Forum Project Discussion Community

iccky · 11-15-2005, 04:39 PM

So I just bought a used car and it did not come with an owner's manual. The dealer says he can get me one but for a price. Is there any cheap (or free) way to get old owner's manuals for cars?

merkerguitars · 11-15-2005, 04:41 PM

If you get lucky at the salvage yard you might be able to find one.

cyrnel · 11-15-2005, 04:42 PM

Used to be you could find loads of them at wrecking yards. Now the yards and their workers grab most of them and sell them aftermarket. Check ebay.

DEI37 · 11-15-2005, 05:04 PM

How much? What kind of car is it for, anyways? Some manuals aren't much money.

shakran · 11-15-2005, 05:16 PM

And then ask if you really NEED it. It won't really tell you anything other than how to work the seatbelts and where the headlight switch is.

noodle · 11-15-2005, 07:07 PM

I live by my Haines Guide. $15 at AutoZone. It tells me how to fix the stuff, so I guess I'm becoming familiar with my Jetta backwards. Literally from the inside out. But VW wanted $75 for a new manual. I laughed. A lot.

Aro23 · 11-16-2005, 07:04 AM

ebay would be a good start but if it's a common car that you find i.e. civic, then just go to a junkyard and look for one.

Scorps · 11-19-2005, 12:39 AM

Internet would be my guess Google it man!

wisj2 · 11-20-2005, 01:44 PM

http://www.helminc.com prints and distributes many of the OEM manuals around.

11-15-2005, 04:39 PM	#1 (permalink)
iccky Psycho Location: Princeton, NJ	Finding an Owner's Manual So I just bought a used car and it did not come with an owner's manual. The dealer says he can get me one but for a price. Is there any cheap (or free) way to get old owner's manuals for cars?

11-15-2005, 04:41 PM	#2 (permalink)
merkerguitars Buffering......... Location: Wisconsin...	If you get lucky at the salvage yard you might be able to find one. __________________ Donate now! Ask me How! Please use the search function it is your friend. Look at my mustang please feel free to comment! http://www.tfproject.org/tfp/showthread.php?t=26985

11-15-2005, 04:42 PM	#3 (permalink)
cyrnel Adequate Location: In my angry-dome.	Used to be you could find loads of them at wrecking yards. Now the yards and their workers grab most of them and sell them aftermarket. Check ebay. __________________ There are a vast number of people who are uninformed and heavily propagandized, but fundamentally decent. The propaganda that inundates them is effective when unchallenged, but much of it goes only skin deep. If they can be brought to raise questions and apply their decent instincts and basic intelligence, many people quickly escape the confines of the doctrinal system and are willing to do something to help others who are really suffering and oppressed." -Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media, p. 195

11-15-2005, 05:04 PM	#4 (permalink)
DEI37 Go faster! Location: Wisconsin	How much? What kind of car is it for, anyways? Some manuals aren't much money. __________________ Generally speaking, if you were to get what you really deserve, you might be unpleasantly surprised.

11-15-2005, 05:16 PM	#5 (permalink)
shakran Tone.	And then ask if you really NEED it. It won't really tell you anything other than how to work the seatbelts and where the headlight switch is.

11-16-2005, 07:04 AM	#7 (permalink)
Aro23 Crazy	ebay would be a good start but if it's a common car that you find i.e. civic, then just go to a junkyard and look for one.

11-19-2005, 12:39 AM	#8 (permalink)
Scorps Lost!! Location: Kingston, Ontario	Internet would be my guess Google it man!

11-20-2005, 01:44 PM	#9 (permalink)
wisj2 Tilted Location: Oklahoma	http://www.helminc.com prints and distributes many of the OEM manuals around.