Haynes Manual

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The Haynes Owners Workshop Manuals (commonly known as simply Haynes Manuals) are a series of practical manuals from the Haynes Publishing Group aimed at both the DIY enthusiast and professional garage repairmen. Although the series primarily focuses upon the construction, maintenance, and repair of automotive vehicles, covering a wide range of makes, models, and years (300 models of car and 130 models of motorcycle); it also includes manuals for the construction, maintenance, troubleshooting, and repair of domestic appliances and personal computers; manuals on digital photography and model railways; and manuals on men, babies,^[1] sex,^[2] and women.^[3].

The automotive vehicle manuals are based upon the strip down and rebuild of the target vehicle, and comprise step-by-step instructions accompanied by diagrams and photographs of an actual rebuild. Additional manuals for garage professionals include books such as the Automotive Diesel Engine Service Guide, the Automotive Air Conditioning TechBook, Citroën and Peugeot Engine Management Systems, and two Engine Management and Fuel Injection Systems Pin Tables and Wiring Diagrams TechBook volumes.

Haynes manuals are published in 15 languages: English (including American English and Australian English versions), French, Swedish, Chinese, Japanese, German, Czech, Finnish, Polish, Bulgarian, Hebrew, Greek, Danish, Spanish (including American Spanish versions), and Russian.

The company is based in Sparkford, a village near Yeovil in Somerset, England. Also located there is the Haynes International Motor Museum, the largest motor museum in the UK which is home to a large collection of both classic and modern cars, and many rarities.

Many Haynes Manuals bore a cover illustration of a stripped down technical drawing of the subject car hand-drawn by Terry Davey.

1 History
2 How Haynes manuals are written
3 See also
4 References
5 External links

[edit] History

The Haynes manuals are named after John Haynes, OBE. In 1956, when he was at school, he wrote and published a book on building an Austin 7 Special, and wrote two further books while performing national service in the Royal Air Force. Haynes Publishing was founded in 1960 and the first manual actually entitled "Haynes Owners Workshop Manual", for the Austin Healey Sprite, was published in 1965.

[edit] How Haynes manuals are written

Haynes manuals are written by a pair of authors, and take between 20 and 30 man-weeks.^[4] A car or motorcycle is bought at the beginning of the project and sold at the end.^[5] Although the workshop phase of the project usually lasts for roughly 4 weeks,^[4] the vehicle is usually retained for a couple of months to ensure it is functioning correctly.^[5]