Awesome website. This is why the internet is amazing.

700 GB to torrent all.

https://charm.li/

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    2 months ago

    YSK:

    Our trusted friends have launched a new website named LEMON, which has newer manuals. It also contains all the CHARM manuals.

    LEMON is the spiritual successor to CHARM, I recommend you try it!

    Link: lemon-manuals.la or lemon-manuals.org.ua

    (Some people have issue connecting. LEMON is investigating. For now, use Firefox or change your DNS server)

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    2 months ago

    Thank you. If you have contact with author/maintainer suggest a donate button. I am starting a business and need access to electric schematics and would love to contribute to access this data.

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    2 months ago

    700 gb sounds like alot all text of Wikipedia is like 170 gb and I think that’s uncompressed. Im assuming most of the manuals are stored as pdfs instead of text with pictures so it takes up more space.

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    2 months ago

    Unfortunately seems to be very US-centric. Citroen is completely missing and Opel only goes up to 1979.

    And for brands that have a US presence, very common European models are missing (Ford Fiesta, Toyota Avensis)

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          Cool but the 56 Buick is missing still, goes to 1960 this time.

          This is cool and I’m not downplaying it at all just being silly. I don’t expect to find a service manual for something so old anyways. Plus the thing has like 4 moving parts and no electronics basically lol

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    2 months ago

    Only goes back to 1982, at least for Ford. Shame my car’s manual isn’t in there because of it.

    EDIT: Lemon goes back far enough, but it appears these are text only, without pictures or diagrams? Why wouldn’t they just have scans of the actual manuals?

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    2 months ago

    Lol I was excited for this and then clicked the page only to see the links for my vehicles were purple already but with no recollection of visiting this site before.

    As a paper manual kind of guy, what do you guys do to better incorporate these digital manuals into your work? I try to avoid touching my phone with dirty or greasy hands/gloves. Maybe I need to setup a garage laptop…