YSK about operation Charm, an archive of all car service manuals!

Awesome website. This is why the internet is amazing.

700 GB to torrent all.

https://charm.li/

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zr0@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 96 pts · 89d (3 replies)

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)

treadful@lemmy.zip · 29 pts · 89d

The Lemon about page is rad as hell.

erictile@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 88d (1 reply)

Hell yeah! Let's all join the LEMON party!

Septimaeus@infosec.pub · 2 pts · 88d
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NutinButNet@hilariouschaos.com · 19 pts · 89d (6 replies)

It looks like they’re no longer updating it and directing people to Lemon now over at Link: lemon-manuals.la or lemon-manuals.org.ua

Fuckfuckmyfuckingass@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 89d (4 replies)

Unfortunately links be broken.

NutinButNet@hilariouschaos.com · 3 pts · 89d (3 replies)

They mention these may not work and a solution

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

Fuckfuckmyfuckingass@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 89d (2 replies)

I'm on Firefox and it still don't work.

derek@infosec.pub · 3 pts · 89d (1 reply)

https://lemon-manuals.la/ worked for me just now.

Fuckfuckmyfuckingass@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 89d

Strange, that link works, but none of the other ones.

RaoulDook@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 88d

Works here, thanks!

Asetru@feddit.org · 16 pts · 89d (4 replies)

Stops at 2013 😢

neidu3@sh.itjust.works · 14 pts · 89d (2 replies)

There's a link in there to its spiritual successor which has newer stuff. I just found the one I needed from 2019.

Asetru@feddit.org · 6 pts · 89d (1 reply)

It's at the top of the page in a highlit box.

Man, sometimes I'm blind. Thanks.

CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 88d

No, our eyes have just been trained to ignore things like that since it looks like an ad placement upon first glance.

bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 89d

Check lemon

Marthirial@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 89d (1 reply)

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.

bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 89d

I tried to find a donate button but did not see

cb900f_bodhi@fedinsfw.app · 8 pts · 89d (3 replies)

Awesome find! Thanks for sharing! This is going to save me so much time

bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works · 10 pts · 89d

No prob! This is why i ADORE kagi. I find amazing shit like when the internet used to be great around its peak (05-2012 ish) and then I keep all of it.

The internet is trash now so mostly I keep my own documentation of everything in notes I keep backed up. The average clueless Googler is really a sad common thing now.

innermachine@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 89d

If u have a cb900f- nice ride man!

Mac@mander.xyz · 1 pts · 89d

919 BROS 🤙

Spaceballstheusername@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 89d (3 replies)

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.

moncharleskey@lemmy.zip · 11 pts · 89d (1 reply)

Wiring diagrams aren't text, so there are probably images throughout.

Spaceballstheusername@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 63d

Yeah I would assume there's pictures. Im just saying that sounds like a huge file comparatively.

XeroxCool@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 88d

The images included are the same provided in my paper factory manuals

RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 89d

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?

bfg9k@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 89d (1 reply)

No Holden 😞

bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 89d

Try the gm section ?

Havatra@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 89d

Is there an equivalent of this for motorcycles?

trumpetmouth@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 89d

any wizards out there wanna zim this for kiwix?

vaionko@sopuli.xyz · 4 pts · 88d

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)

kokesh@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 89d (2 replies)

No Mondeo

ayyy@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 88d (1 reply)

Isn’t that called a Focus in most of the world?

vaionko@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 88d

Mondeo is larger than the Focus. Apparently the 4th gen Mondeo was sold as the Fusion in North America.

mrmisses@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 89d (3 replies)

This would have been great for my 1976 old mobile omega that I had... 22 years ago

SupraMario@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 89d (2 replies)

They only go back to the 80s. My 76 rolla and 56 Buick are not in the list.

mrmisses@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 89d (1 reply)

You need to go to the link at the top that takes you to the updated collection

SupraMario@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 88d

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

rumba@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 88d (2 replies)

man, they stopped 1 year before my car

bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 88d (1 reply)

Look at lemon

rumba@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 88d

yup, there we are!!!!! thanks!

ddplf@szmer.info · 2 pts · 88d
CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 88d (1 reply)

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...

bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 88d

Garage puter or print em!