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Are the new Haynes manuals crap?

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Sheddy:
First, remove the battery earth lead......
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now check the washer fluid level.

muddyjames:
I wanted to change the thermostat on my disco recently. bought a new thermostat, looked in haynes manual, found thermostat (diesel only) in index, looked up section, no photo, looked in next topic down had a photo and manage to refer to that one where the thermostat was, me and my mate took it out, dribbles of oil came out from bottom of engine, looked at old thermostat and looked at new. New one was 'king massive compared to the old one, went back to garage where I bought part from and complained they sold me the wrong one, I had a gut feeling there was a water thermostat but nothing in index to say "water thermostat", texted matt_h and he said there was a water thermostat it was by big black engine cover, me being me and not very skiled with engines yet I didnt know what I was looking at, found a bleeding plastic cap and un did it and could feel with my little finger the h20 stat, I had no idea how it came out and I couldnt get pipes off, went to matts house and he did it in 30 minutes.

Morrel of the story. Throw the haynes manual out as it just scares you and go to  a mates and learn from them. So much better. Matt found the h2o stat in the index but under something obscure. I still cant find it now.

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