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I suppose the car is too new for most users to be fixing their own yet, ever diminishing number of us working on our own cars anyway.

Youtube can be a really useful source, on the back of my Landcruiser i have air suspension, looking around for videos on how to change airbags when one goes, as it must in due course i struggled to find the nitty gritty on where to disconnect the air pipes because none too clear and looked to be a pita from the videos on LC's, found an American chap who had done this job on his Sequoia, different vehicle but with the same rear suspension/axle layout and very similar chassis, his was a slow methodical video and showed where to disconnect them for a much easier life.

I linked this video on the LC forum i use and several posters with the same LC as mine have noted where before they would have replaced the airbags with normal springs, now they can see how simple it can be they'll keep the air suspension going.

This is what vehicle forums should be about, not scoring points but trying to help each other out to save some dosh and keep our vehicles going economically as long as possible.

Lrac, as you're into the new model Aygo, do you have any views or experience of the 1.2 Peugeot version of the model, which might be of interest to the family Aygo user when her 2010 version eventually gets replaced?

The issue is that I would have thought it would generate far more revenue for Haynes if they published an up to date manual for my car than a 1965 Lola.

Intuitively that might be case but i suspect if it was there'd be far more manuals for recent cars. Unless it's very recent Haynes do not do one for my Roomster although there is a version for the very similar Fabia. I'd also guess most 15 model Aygos will still be in warranty and the PSA badged version still treated as nearly new.

I think the sort of owners workshop manuals we all used twenty or more years ago are likely to disappear or never be printed. Lot of stuff we used to do is not possible on a modern car. Ignition is all electronic and carburetors are no more. I used to be happy to fiddle with fueling system on PSA's XUD diesels but modern high pressure injection it's no longer possible, even if it were safe given the pressures involved. Fewer drivers seem able/willing to do even simple stuff like change bulbs.

For those of us willing to give it ago there are videos on you tube. They even show you how to put everything back together - no more of that reassembly is reverse of dismantling stuff....

Water pump went on my son's 107. No way he was going near the job - my father's utter lack of aptitude with anything has skipped a generation but having seen a You Tube vid I'd have given it a go myself. Servicing that car is a cinch.

There seems to be a thriving market for 'manuals' for everything from Lola via the Lancaster bomber to Apollo/Saturn 5. Don't know how many, if any Lolas are still around but I'm not sure the manual would actually be much help in restoring it for the track.

Edited by Bromptonaut on 18/09/2019 at 18:07