Which is better between the two manuals?

 

Honda!!!

 

Helm publishes the Honda manuals. Haynes suck.

 

HELMS hands down. They tell you every possibly detail about every single piece of anything on your car. Measurements for every single bolt, step-by-step on doing anything you could possibly think of for your vehicle

 

alright thanks i was about to get haynes but cancel ima get the helms. Thanks again for the replies

 

I acidently bought a Haynes thinkin that it was a Helms biggest regreat of my life. And I bought it because I hated my chilton, point being Helms FTW!

 

anyone know where to get the helms manual? or anyone has?

 

Got to their website. They are a bit pricey, Mine was like $60 or something. But its worth it. Most Deff.

 

just download the factory service manual and keep a laptop handy in the garage. it's in the faq I believe.
the CRX one is very similar to the Civic one, so either one will work... small things vary, but it's pretty straight forward. same grounds, same wiring routing (basically), same torque specs, same motor.

edit: EF manual here
http://hondatech.info/downloads/Auto/Manuals/Civic/

 

I got my EF Helms on eBay right now if anyone wants a good deal...

 

got that one too ftw free and oem specs ftw also i got the ef hatch, sedan and crx wiring diagram too

 

Haynes and Chilton are great
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if you like to read "take your vehicle to a professional service technician"

 

^^^Agreed. my bro had one for his vw golf and every other page it said that

 

My Hanes manual assumes that 84-91 are the same in most aspects. They assume most things carry from 84 to 91... if it's the same in 84, why would they change it... Crazy.

 

They also assume you only bought the book to change your oil which carries over for most every typical car on the planet.
Then they add in a few fancy pictures that are never for the car you are working on - if they are, then it's a miracle and you should probably call NASA and find out if anything strange is going on in the universe.
Most of the text is a word game and you need to have a degree in linguistics and a top secret military clearances and training in cryptography to decipher it.
It's 75/25 if the torque specs are good. They do an ok job of cut-and-pasting here.
For the most part, you can buy one Haynes book in your lifetime and use it to fix any make and model you ever own.
The information is equally vague in every copy and they all guide you to take it to a service tech for all the stuff you really need a book to fix.

BIG PLUS for the Haynes and Chilton is that they both use high quality yellowed recycled paper that burns GREAT in the fireplace.

 

just got my Helm's Manual in today. yeah buddy. so much more illustrations in the Helm's. Helms FTW.

 

The Haynes ans Chilton books use drawings from the Helm book.

 

Chilton or google... I preffer the second one more. has better photos and user feedback. It's nice...