i know this is a regular question asked on here, i emailed haynes about a manual for the octy mk2 and this is the reply.

Dear Mr Furness

Thank you for your recent enquiry regarding a Service and Repair Manual for your vehicle. Unfortunately, we do not produce a Manual for this particular model and have no plans to do so within the next 12 to 18 months.

However, all customer requests are recorded and used in the decision making process of future Manual publications/updates.

You could try contacting your local dealer to see if he can be of assistance.

Kind regards

Vicky Hall

Customer Services Coordinator

Direct line: 01963 442003

Fax: 01963 440001

Email: [email protected]

www.haynes.co.uk

what we have to do now is get as many people as possible to email them to try to get them to produce a manual.

ive had one for every car ive had , i could do with one for the skoda.

While not an ideal solution it's essentially a MKV Golf underneath...

Just registered my interest in a Scout manual, here is the link to e-mail them - [email protected]

4x4 manua added to the wantd list!!

I must have bought a Haynes manual for every car I have owned right back to a rusty and much loathed Austin 1300 I got in 1977.

Recently, I am not sure they are worth the money any more.

Most of the front of the book will be generic adivce and not specific to the car in question.

Most of them are soft backed and even the traditional colour photos on how to repair and respray rust damage on a front wing are now black and white. I ask you :no:

IMHO Haynes seem to be resting on their laurels and just "phoning it in" for the most part.

Now that DIY is more difficult on "sealed for life" and "Special Service Tool Required" modern cars, they don't seem to be either much value or value for money.

Just and opinion - I'd probably still end buying one :wonder:

i know this is a regular question asked on here, i emailed haynes about a manual for the octy mk2 and this is the reply.

Dear Mr Furness

Thank you for your recent enquiry regarding a Service and Repair Manual for your vehicle. Unfortunately, we do not produce a Manual for this particular model and have no plans to do so within the next 12 to 18 months.

However, all customer requests are recorded and used in the decision making process of future Manual publications/updates.

You could try contacting your local dealer to see if he can be of assistance.

Kind regards

Vicky Hall

Customer Services Coordinator

Direct line: 01963 442003

Fax: 01963 440001

Email: [email protected]

www.haynes.co.uk

what we have to do now is get as many people as possible to email them to try to get them to produce a manual.

ive had one for every car ive had , i could do with one for the skoda.

Vicky

I had a similar response from Haynes about 18 months ago.

I have heard that the Golf Mk5 is very similar and one other member has said it's likely to be about 75% the same. I'm not too sure as the Golf is rather smaller than the Octavia.

Mailed them too. But.......

TBH, I can't see Haynes producing specific manuals for much longer. As more and more ECU's are added for this and that option the amount of in-depth work a Sunday morning bodger like me can do is rapidly diminishing. I'm sure I've still got my old Maestro manual somewhere, or more specifically, 3 of them to cover the bits that fell out of the previous copy,

Vicky

I had a similar response from Haynes about 18 months ago.

I have heard that the Golf Mk5 is very similar and one other member has said it's likely to be about 75% the same. I'm not too sure as the Golf is rather smaller than the Octavia.

As the owner of a MkV 105 DSG and an Octavia 2 105 DSG the size difference is about 30cm or 12" depending what you work in it's basically extra boot space and cosmetics on the front end, the tech spec is very very similar and so far everything i've checked has been identical but then again they're both based on the A3 platform so i'd not expect anything major to be different.

I have a Haynes for the MkV and it's equally useful for the Octy.

Anyone remember taking a set of points out of a distributor and cleaning them up? Then turning the engine slowly to get them just the right place for sticking in the 15 thou. feeler gauge. And then the tappets................then the oil in the top of the carb! Those were the days - bl**ding awful.

Mailed them too. But.......

TBH, I can't see Haynes producing specific manuals for much longer. As more and more ECU's are added for this and that option the amount of in-depth work a Sunday morning bodger like me can do is rapidly diminishing. I'm sure I've still got my old Maestro manual somewhere, or more specifically, 3 of them to cover the bits that fell out of the previous copy,

Bloody hell, someone else who had one of those!!! My first car, a 1983 dark blue 1.6L Maestro, I learnt a LOT about fixing cars running that thing... It was replaced with a 1988 1.3 Nissan Sunny after some low life torched the Maestro... The Sunny was a bit (read lot) dull but never needed anything doing to it apart from routine servicing

These new Haynes manuals are rubbish and not worth the money anyway.they are made out of toilet paper unlike the older type manuals which had real paper pages and gave you a full strip down of anything whereas the new ones don,t and just tell you to go to a dealer..ridiculous.