Re: How tmes have changed.

Posted by humanpotatohybrid On 2024/4/26 14:30:16

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Not to be in grumpy youngster mode but I can guarantee that 1974 owner's manuals did not tell you how to adjust the valves. Probably would have to go back a lot longer than that to find one that did. Nor do manuals today warn to not DRINK the battery acid... of a sealed battery...

I have a 23 Highlander Hybrid which is pretty much the same car as a 24 Rav4 Hybrid. I have read nearly all the manual. The problem I have with it is that it's not user-friendly. A great deal of the info in there is fluff which makes it a real snoozefest and you can read whole sections and retain little. In other words, the manual is long, but it's also poorly written. If carmakers actually assumed that people would read such manuals, they could have made it much better.

Even 20 years ago, while not being a great deal shorter, the car manuals were more illustrative IMHO.

By the way, this is from someone who writes manuals at their day job. Guess where I get inspiration for the form of some things... that's right the Packard service manual.