Haynes Manuals

Advantages: Save you loads!
Disadvantages: Can be hard to understand.

...Do you own a boat, car, motorcycle, plane, husband, baby, bicycle, house, or commercial vehicle? Then you need a Haynes manual. Haynes manuals have been around for 30+ years, and have provided help for mechanics and car owners alike for that time, with relatively simple step-by-step instructions on what you’re trying to do. No matter what car or bike you own, Haynes are sure to stock a manual for it. The other manuals Haynes do (Boat, Plane etc.) are slightly more scarce, but you may get lucky! Unfortunately, the car I own (Daihatsu Hijet) doesn’t have a Haynes manual for it, but this is a rare exception. The newer Haynes manuals have numbers stating how hard the job you’re trying to do is. 1 is an easy job, say doing an oil change; and 5 is a hard job, say removing your big ends. To be honest, if you don...

o_morris 01.10.2003 · Read review
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Review of Haynes Workshop Manuals

HAYNES - manual of just about everything . . .

Advantages: Clear instructions on how to strip most things.
Disadvantages: Can be a little limited, vague pictures, pictograms needed.

...The HAYNES series of manual have been with us for many years now, we have all used them. At one time they covered just cars, but now their repetoire includes caravans, decorating, washing machines, computers, bikes, and even racing engines. In fact they have one now covering "MAN - All models, shapes, sizes and colours. 120,000 BC to present day" It is number 3931 if you don't believe me! The books are produced by Haynes publishing in Yeovil, Somerset, and have been around for just over forty years now. They are still in the familiar hardback versions, which have wipe clean covers. The format has always been easy to follow, and the manuals contain both a contents page, and an index. The black and white photographs make it a lot easier to find the location and position of components. Personally I think...

smudgeybabes 17.12.2006 (22.05.2007) · Read review
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Review of Haynes Workshop Manuals

Haynes Manuals - not just for Motors...

Advantages: Save a fortune on repairs/servicing.
Disadvantages: Pictures could be clearer

...father wasn't too pleased either because now my banger was stuck on bricks in his garage. He took one look at it and it was obvious to him that neither my friend nor I would have the first idea about how to put it all back together again - so the car was sold for spares for a fiver. You didn't have top pay people to take them away in those days. It was a few years later, when I was presented with another expensive repair on a Ford Escort. It needed a new clutch. It wasn't that I was heavy on my clutches, it's just that all I could afford in those days were cars with heavy mileage on them. Hire-purchase was never an option - my father didn't agree with it. The Haynes Workshop Manuals had just hit the market and I got one for the Escort before making the attempt. A work colleague had one for his Vauxhall and it had looked very good...

derek-j-a 29.05.2005 · Read review
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Review of Haynes Workshop Manuals

A Haynes in the Ass

Advantages: Format, Plain English, Sense of Humour
Disadvantages: Content, Structure

...When LegendaryMrsDude fell pregnant some time last year there was a surge of book-buying. All manner of tomes, from flimsy paper-backs to hardbacks of near blblical proportions were acquired, covering just about every aspect of pregnancy, birth and parenthood. Being a keen reader this didn't put me off, that is until I started trying to actually read them. Nearly all of the books we had bought were written from the womans perspective. Now this isn't entirely unreasonable given the amount a woman has to go through during pregnancy but it does make for some pretty hard going for a man attempting to slog through the reams of literature. But this isn't a review of all those other books. This is a review of the Haynes Baby Manual, a book written for men by a man in an attempt to find a niche in the market. So why did I buy this...

LegendaryMrDude 09.02.2005 · Read review
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Review of The Haynes Baby Book

Nissan Micra

Advantages: The looks and the fuel type is amazing and the insurance group.
Disadvantages: Not that much safety and the comfort.

...Nissan Micra's come in a 1.0 litre hatchback they mostly come in 5 doors or 3 doors. The performance on the road is very nippy, 3/5 also the handling and the ride is quite the same. These Micra's are great insurance group is low fuel is great, on the otherhand the security isnt becuase some micras from 1994-1998 dont have any alarm or anything but ll models have plenty of airbags. The ownership is great buying and selling is easy and no hassle to sell these nippy motors are Quality & reliability many people gave the ownership a 4/5. These 1.0litre micras changed a lot from the 1900's till know there are over 100,000 micras know in the U.K. The looks of a micra is great thats what attracts people to buy these cars. 9/10 people voted that micras are good for first drivers....

mujtabaa123 30.05.2009 · Read review
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Review of Nissan Micra 1.0

NISSAN

Advantages: GOOD PAY
Disadvantages: LONG HOURS

...I have worked for NMUK for 8 years now so I think I am well quialified to talk about Nissan. When I started, Nissan were only building 2 models and the employees at that time knew that it would be hard to go up to a 3 model plant i.e. Almera, Micra and Primera. Well things have not changed it's still hard now. At present Nissan at Sunderland are now making the Note, Primera, Micra and the all new Quashki ( A CROSS OVER CAR 2 WHEEL DRIVE COME 4X4). Nissan now employees around 5000 staff 4500 witch actually build the cars with 15000 people making parts for the factory in the local area. So Nissan is a major employer both directly and indirectly. If Nissan were to close it would have a big impact on the Northeast of England as did the loss of the Pits and the Shipyards. Most of the employees are full time with around 800 temps...

cuedad123 21.01.2007 · Read review
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Review of Nissan Motor Manufacturing UK

Benfield Nissan a no no

Advantages: Nice, spacious showroom, friendly sales staff
Disadvantages: Complete lack of after sales service.

...see there was no need to prompt!), and he genuinely seemed interested in making sure I enjoyed the experience. Probably figured an 18 year old guy who could muster up £4000 in cash in an afternoon would be a good customer to hang onto for life. He certainly succeeded in impressing me, right up until the inevitable problems set in. Now I never expect a car to be perfect when it arrives. I mean, 12,000 pieces going together on a production line, its normal to expect a couple of things to be not right. However, my problem was a malfunctioning fuel gauge. It took six attempts to get Benfield to fix it under warranty before I took it to another Nissan Main Dealer who fixed it straight away. Please note that Benfield even managed to blame a guage that fluctuates between full and 1/4 full in three miles on the fact the car had 17" alloys...

AndyConnolly 23.03.2001 · Read review
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Review of Nissan

1991 Nissan Micra

Advantages: Cheap, Quick, Cost-effiecent
Disadvantages: Looks (based on 1991 model)

...This is a review based on a 988cc 1991 Nissan Micra GS. This car is very very decieving. Part of the deiciving is that the car looks like the back end of a bus, but nevermind its whats underneath that counts. - Engine - If you were to look at the spec's of this car it would be seen as a 988cc car. this alone would be cause for thinking it'd be slow and have a poor accelleration....wrong! I don't have the actual stats, but i have out performed from a starting position a brand new 1.3 Ford Fiesta! This quite a feat from a 10 year old car with a 988cc engine. The top speed i have managed to reach with this car is a astronmoical 110mph, although to the cars credit this was down hill with the wind behind me! Realistically it'll happily cruise at 85-90mph. - Exterior - To be quite honest the car looks like it;s been through...

SyeP2001 23.08.2002 · Read review
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Review of Nissan Micra 1.0

Nissan note...

Advantages: Good quality build, low fuel consumption...
Disadvantages: None

...I've always preferred a larger car with a straight six, big pot motor, or a V8?always wanted a rear wheel drive vehicle with big interior, couldn't fit in smaller because I'm 6"4' tall, a big luggage compartment and I always felt safe in them?so I drove this type of vehicle since I started to drive a long time ago?then I discovered the Nissan Note? My lady and I decided to look for another car because the big ol' Mercedes was getting a bit tired now, so I pulled into a Nissan dealership and a delightful young lady saw us entering and immediately became our shadow?I asked her what's new and she showed me the Note?looks small I said to her after walking around it a couple of times but I liked the look of the 15' wheels on her and the high rear placement of the lights for safety, front lights looked a little weird though but were well...

hewholaughslast 21.12.2006 · Read review
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Review of Nissan Note 1.6 Automatic

Nissan Skyline GT-R

Advantages: Supersonic Cruise Machine
Disadvantages: Not many

...Here's a car which works with you, and for you, but never in place of you. There's plenty of communication from the chassis, plenty of poke from the 2.6-litre twin-turbo six-cylinder engine, and electronic gizmos which let you have fun but won't allow things to get out of hand...much. Nissan claims the Skyline chassis is the most sophisticated in the world. If your yardstick for measuring sophistication is calibrated in electronic aids, there's no argument. All four wheels help to steer and, sometimes, transmit drive. Normally this latter function is done by the rear pair, but within a thousandth of a second of traction loss being computer-detected, the front wheels take up half the task. How cool is that. Meanwhile the steering is reading your intentions and helping to make them happen. First the rear wheels steer in the opposite...

blingblings 17.05.2003 · Read review
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Review of Nissan Skyline