User Manuals today...

[JeffKeryk]

50 years ago your user manual told you how to adjust your valves.
Nowadays they tell you not to drink the contents of the battery...

 

[jhellwig]

The first 50-100 pages are dedicated to telling you not to do something that some dingbat managed to try to do.

 

[Boomer]

Johny was a scientist
He isn't anymore
For what he thought was H2O
Was H2SO4.

 

[2005jettatdi]

Johny was a scientist
He isn't anymore
For what he thought was H2O
Was H2SO4.

Johnny found some dynamite
Didn't understand it quite
Curiosity never pays
It rained Johnny seven days.

Funny what you remember from 5th grade.

 

[PF52]

Johnny found some dynamite
Didn't understand it quite
Curiosity never pays
It rained Johnny seven days.

Funny what you remember from 5th grade.

Eddie ate dynamite, good bye Eddie.

 

[Kira]

I was going to allude to half our Mazda's manual being for nav-o-communotainment and such.

 

[72C10]

If you want to see how far we've fallen, pick up an old copy of Dyke's Automobile and Gasoline Engine Encyclopedia.

I grabbed a copy from 1952 on Ebay not too long ago, and the amount of information it gives you is staggering.

 

[MrHorspwer]

Yet the same generation of people who had user manuals that instructed on how to adjust valves couldn't figure out how to make the VCR stop flashing "12:00"

 

[JeffKeryk]

If you want to see how far we've fallen, pick up an old copy of Dyke's Automobile and Gasoline Engine Encyclopedia.

I grabbed a copy from 1952 on Ebay not too long ago, and the amount of information it gives you is staggering.

I flat out love my Motor Manuals. Unfortunately they don't say anything about drinking battery water...

 

[paulo57509]

I grew up on Mitchell National Service Data manuals.

Now that I have a lot of vehicles where parts are going extinct, I need to find some Hollander interchange manuals.

The Highlander came with two owner's manuals, total of 980 pages. I still don't have a through knowledge of how some things work.

 

[andrew_j]

I remember reading thru parents AMC Eagle owners manual waiting and it had a whole section on how to do light off-roading with it.

 

[bdcardinal]

Some of the newer Fords don't come with a manual, you access it through the infotainment screen. We have had people want us in parts to print them out. It ends up taking about 2-3 reams of paper.

 

[jhellwig]

Realize also that the “infotainment” section has turned into its own manual in some cases. Valve adjustment is no longer needed but you need a book to figure out how to change from fm to am.

 

[Rhymingmechanic]

The first 50-100 pages are dedicated to telling you not to do something that some dingbat managed to try to do.

And the rest tells how to run the infotainment system.