Where do all the car handbooks go?

Alun

A recurring theme on here seems to be people who've bought 2nd hand cars where the handbook(s) are missing, so I was wondering where they get to? I mean, mine never leaves the car .. I look at it once in a blue moon for stuff like recommended oil or tyre pressures, and every now and then the service book gets taken out to get stamped, but that's it.

So, do some people keep them in the bathroom to read while sitting on the toilet or something, and then forget to put them back when they sell the car, or sell them on eBay to make a quick buck?

Overheal

Who the **** knows.

Bet you half the time the Dealers take these things out, so they can charge you more for them, or add them as "incentives"

You know, like that Spare Key I know they got off the old owner, but never offered to me, because they charge $150 to cut and reprogram the 2nd key.

zilog_jones

I think a lot of people leave them at home and forget about them when it comes to selling the car. I was fixing a PC at someone's house last year and saw an Austin 1300 manual on the bookshelf!

bgo1

My guess is the big selling thingy called Ebay.

People are so scroungy these days that they actually resort to getting a few quid for a handbook from a car they have already sold.

i have no doubt people steal car cigeratte lighters for the same purpose, what next..

Atomic Pineapple

The book is still in mine from 1999 along with all other details about the life of the car, invoices, service history all in its Type R wallet

It always stays in the car also so when you mention how they go missing it is very strange

slimjimmc

zilog_jones wrote: »

I think a lot of people leave them at home and forget about them when it comes to selling the car. I was fixing a PC at someone's house last year and saw an Austin 1300 manual on the bookshelf!

Spot on.

Handbooks have been disappearing for years, long before Ebay or even the internet itself existed.

galwaytt

slimjimmc wrote: »

long before Ebay or even the internet itself existed.

...really, such nonsense......sure everyone knows there was No Life before the internet........how could people have functioned ??


:P :P :P :P :P

Gary ITR

Mine is still in my 86 Golf. The seller found it as he was rummaging before I drove off and he said 'feck if I'd have known that was in there it'd have been on ebay'

slimjimmc

galwaytt wrote: »

...really, such nonsense......sure everyone knows there was No Life before the internet........how could people have functioned ??


:P :P :P :P :P

Easy, you hopped into your car, drove to the pub, had a dozen or so pints with your friends then drove back home.:D

-Chris-

I wish I knew, the amount of time I spent looking through presses and desk drawers looking for manuals. Eventually you'd just get frustrated and steal one from another car - and the cycle continues...

ottostreet

I have mine! Full Service history, every manual, every receipt from its time in England.

Was able to piece together a rough timeline of everything that has gone/been replaced/been added onto my car!

its never taken out either, cos I'm a good boy.