Free nonprofit collection of 50k repair manuals for most vehicles 1982-2013

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I really passionately hate that car companies get away with making their service manuals so incredibly expensive as to dissuade owners from performing their own maintenance. It should be criminal. Manuals and official documentation should not be charged for by manufacturers. If there’s a cost to making them, then include it in the price. Fuck these bastards.

That seems like a weird regulation to make.

As long as costumers know what they are getting in to, who are we to judge their decisions?

Consumers don’t know. It’s the same reason we don’t let children enter into legally binding contracts.

Oh, good old paternalism.

Even if manufacturers and their tech manual publishers were OK with this one would hope that the web server has their access logs disabled or at least changed the LogFormat to exclude IP addresses. I only bring this up because I remember paying anywhere from $60 to $200 for automotive tech manuals and I assume perhaps incorrectly they would perceive this as a loss. It is nice of the person hosting this to take such a risk.

Out of curiosity, why is their database 700GB according to their about page? Pictures?

Love this. Thank you.

A torrent would be awesome.

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