The Haynes publishing company will not publish any future Haynes workshop manuals in printed form, as reported by U.K. magazine Auto Express. From now on, new Haynes titles will exclusively be available digitally, as many of the existing ones already are. The digital titles can be played on desktop computers, phones or tablets, and include video tutorials, which were not available in the books for obvious reasons.
However, as Auto Express also noted – and as the company itself emphasized on its Twitter feed – this does not mean that printing will stop entirely. Titles in the Haynes workshop manuals back catalog will still be printed for the foreseeable future.
Meanwhile, Haynes is creating what it describes as “a new automotive maintenance and repair product that covers around 95 percent of car makes and models – an increase of around 40 percent over our current Workshop Manual coverage”. Precise details of this product are not yet available.
John Haynes founded what is now known as the Haynes Group in May 1960. The first of many Haynes workshop manuals was published in 1965. Its subject was the Austin-Healey Sprite, and the manual was based on stripping a car down to its component parts and then putting them back together, a process used for every manual since.
The business grew steadily, publishing manuals for both cars and motorcycles, and in 2013 it was able to acquire the Clymer and Intertec repair manuals from Penton Media. Haynes was itself bought by technical data company InfoPro Digital for the equivalent of $153 million in 2020.
Haynes workshop manuals are available for many types of car and motorcycle, including those built by current and former GM brands Buick, Cadillac, Chevrolet, Geo, GMC, Oldsmobile, Opel, Pontiac, Saturn and Vauxhall. The list also includes fictional vehicles, among them the Ecto-1 from Ghostbusters, the DeLorean time machine from Back To The Future and the U.S.S. Enterprise from Star Trek. In addition, the company has a large list of non-motoring titles in several categories including animal care, cooking and history.
John Haynes died at the age of 80 on February 8th 2019, after a short illness. His legacy includes not only the Haynes workshop manuals and the publishing company, but also the Haynes International Motor Museum in the village of Sparkford in south-west England (also the home of the publishing company), which houses a large collection of classic cars and motorcycles in 17 exhibition areas.
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I have several Haynes manuals, beginning with the 1979 manual for a Volvo 850 Turbo, when Volvo itself didn’t allow any layperson to service their cars. I have seen a Haynes manual for the Grumman Lunar Module and one for the Rockwell (now Boeing) Space Shuttle.
I will try to get the digital version for my present 2014 Ford Fusion Hybrid.
This will work very well. Not! For one just look at how clean that guys hands are in the promo photo. He has never picked up a tool in his life. Companies are free to do what they want. Someone will could make printed copies as people will still want to look at hard copies. Now for the EV era shops will go away as EVs are like basic computers. Printed circuit boards which can’t be repaired, some motors, and batteries. Very little for a shop to do. There will still be a demand for ICE vehicles for these types of manuals as ICE will not go away over night.
This is how it’s been done for decades. Even in the 90’s, independent shops didn’t have manuals for every single car that came in, they had CD-ROMs from ALLDATA and a grungy desktop computer on wheels. All manufacturers made electronic manuals primary for dealers by the early 2000’s. GM is ending paper manuals by program, I don’t think you can get a paper manual for a T1 truck.
Besides, any modern car, the first step in diagnostics is to plug in a laptop to scan for codes. Even something as simple as a tire rotation, air filter change, or oil change involves resetting modules via computer.
Probably a generational thing? People will windup printing out pages to have in garage. Still like holding a manual, book, or newspaper but, I’m over 60. Don’t drop laptop in engine bay. Owners manuals will be next.
the new F150 is digital only owners manual, they’re way ahead of you haha I hate it, got a 20 F250 and am very glad there was a book in the glovebox
If you have a book it gets dirty and torn.
With this I have a small I pad and just print off the page I need. It gets dirt toss it out.
Now when it come to reading a book I still like a book. But for working in a car this works fine. It is just a matter of have a pad to work from and WiFi to load it. Folks with no WiFi in the garage may struggle.
15 years ago i used to sell a few a month. Of course that has changed. Most use you tube now.
Welcome to nerdville. Fu#k you nerds!
I downloaded the ISUZU Workshop Manual for my 2008 Isuzu D Max $35 for 6,000 pages !!
Excellent info for all variants . But I print out what I need to write in my own notes, dozens of pages , the printer ink is a HIDDEN COST .
Not complaining , still cheaper and more conveniant than paper book manuals .