Haynes have finally brought out the Fabia Mkll manuals, picked one up from Halfords this morning.

Is that why you were at the cashpoint at Tesco? Getting some more money out to pay for it? :p

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Does it exclude the Mk2 Fabia vRS 1.4tsi Model?

Is that why you were at the cashpoint at Tesco? Getting some more money out to pay for it? :p

To buy that, see how much I had in and to get my rent money for my dad.

 

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Does it exclude the Mk2 Fabia vRS 1.4tsi Model?

 

It does exclude the VRS yes:

 

To buy that, see how much I had in and to get my rent money for my dad.

 

Yep, I followed you into Tesco car park.

Edit: Car could do with a wash btw...

Edited 14 May, 201610 yr by Rustynuts

Yep, I followed you into Tesco car park.

Edit: Car could do with a wash btw...

Fortunately I beat you to that thought and have since washed both of them:

 

Been out a few months now... Horrible semi-hard cover. They used to make proper hardback covers and then also, additional vinyl book covers but they replaced them with money saving thick card covers, with very thin pages and now don't make the vinyl sleeves! I say money saving but not for punters, who may have to replace shoddy books sooner or second owners, who may not get the manual passed on to them, necessitating in their needing to buy from new again! (Money EARNER for Haynes).  There are many things progress makes worse! I bet in twenty years time, used Haynes manuals are gonna be very thin on the ground. You can find many older car ones on eBay and in boot sales due to the "Proper" bindings.

 

Rant, over, still a very useful book to own.

so little covered in the books these days

 

I remember my first Haynes manuals for an old Datsun and a triumph herald, full strip down of engine and gearbox, now gearbox is treated as a sealed unit, and engine pretty much the same

 

these days I don't think much better than the owners manual that comes with the car

Silly question but... why don't they cover the vRS model?

 

Is it just because of the complexity of components like the DSG box?

I reckon that it will be down to the proportion of these models versus the other variants in the market place.

I think they usually just cover the lager production models. Many things will be same or similar but also, many will be totally different. As regards to older cars, they were generally much simpler to strip down and rebuild. Modern cars are much more complex. Even professional technicians do a diagnostic prior to any real work, hoping the car will "Tell them" What is wrong!

all that's changes is a mass of sensors added and fuel injection instead of an old SU or zenith carb with a choke you had to pull out to cold start it

 

still got valves (maybe 4 instead of 2 per cylinder), plugs, pistons and a crank, and still works on the old suck, squeeze, bang, blow cycle

You can't beat a suck squeeze bang and blow!

You can't beat a suck squeeze bang and blow!

...Unless your'e into beating!