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Hi, I have (for various embarassing reasons) huge piles of Haynes manuals all over the house - any ideas for how to get rid of them. Round here even the charity shops will not take them, no-one on ebay wants them even at cost postage and start price of sub £1... my idea was to buy one of each car I have a manual for and then sell it complete with Haynes manual - I think my landlord might evict me before I finished though  Cheers Graham |
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make a list, bung them in the for sale section here, if no one wants any of them, recycle.  |
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Stiff
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I'm suprised no one on ebay wants them, I knew a guy who used to trawl car boots for them cheap then bang them on the bay and get around a tenner plus postage (I'm guessing now he must have known which ones were in demand)
Yeah, I'd also say make a list and bang them on here.
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Stiff
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I've just realised I've got one for a Datsun Cherry N10 if anyone needs one? It's a little tatty round the edges but it's all there. Over to you grahamwithimps  |
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MR TIKI
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Get a job lot of picture frames from somewhere,art-up the more interesting exploded drawings then make a mint touring the show scene this summer!? |
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Boldly driving faster than a tin worm can wiggle.
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Same answer as mags Q, could do with mk5 Cortina and any alfetta books and maybe shaggy old mk3 1.1 festa book  cheers HTH |
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May 13, 2007 10:45:37 GMT
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I saw a guy advertising his business in the back of Mini Magazine i think it was, buying and sell haynes and other manuals. |
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May 13, 2007 20:02:22 GMT
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For a laugh, swap the covers over and sell them as a rare misprinted manual on eBay.
Should be funny watching someone trying to adjust the Hydroelastic suspension on their Cortina - "Well it says in the manual there should be a valve here....."
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Never trust a man
Who names himself Trevor.
Or one day you might find
He's not a real drug dealer.
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May 13, 2007 20:03:57 GMT
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For a laugh, swap the covers over and sell them as a rare misprinted manual on eBay. Should be funny watching someone trying to adjust the Hydroelastic suspension on their Cortina - "Well it says in the manual there should be a valve here....." Lolz! |
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May 13, 2007 20:38:49 GMT
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I saw a set of Haynes covers reduced and reprinted onto coasters, looked like a pukka Haynes product. The pack was optimistically titled Classics Cars, contained small hatches like Metro, Panda, Nova and Fiesta IIRC.
So, remove the covers and sell them as table mats?..
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May 13, 2007 20:42:32 GMT
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Ive got hundreds of haynes manuals, Ive collected them for years. The problem is all the "swaps" I have are impossible to get shot of. I cant bin them! Tried selling them but nobodys interested. I think ive got about 7 mk2 escort manuals.
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May 13, 2007 21:02:51 GMT
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I find the problem with Haynes guides is that people find one for a rare car and assume that it must be worth a fortune. Of course, in reality there are loads more guides than cars, so they're worth next to nothing. the ones that do have value (on e-bay at least) seem to be for mid 90s cars, where people will pay a few quid for a second hand one rather than £15plus for new.
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May 13, 2007 21:07:48 GMT
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Buy a retro ride to go with each of your manuals! ;D
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May 13, 2007 21:09:07 GMT
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Good point.
You'll get -0.01 quid for a Renault 6 manual.
But a Mk1 Escort or Mini manual will make a few bob like.
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May 13, 2007 21:54:40 GMT
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But surely every mk1 escort or mini owner must alredy have atleast one haynes manual for their car?
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May 13, 2007 22:08:06 GMT
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Perhaps a sticky thread in the for sale sections with requests and offers would be good?
The exploded drawings in them are great, that's how I ended up with about 15 for cars I don't have/will never own. Perhaps there could be a niche market for kitchen table tops with manuals under a sheet of glass or stick them together to make garage wall insulation...?
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May 13, 2007 22:14:58 GMT
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get one of those solid fuel boilers that will run on anything, then advertize on freecycle for old haynes manuals? I'll get me coat.....
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To get a standard A40 this low, you'd have to dig a hole to put it in |
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May 13, 2007 22:23:48 GMT
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I have a huge collection of them, I'm always trawling round the charity shops and Freecycle for them. I'd have an unwanted ones off people here but the postage is the killer  |
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Mr K
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May 13, 2007 22:39:00 GMT
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anything reliant or skoda ticks my boxes; if you need to shift them.
what about cutting all the pages out of the book, bining the cover and putting it all into a ring binder, then ebaying them as 'pukka workshop manual'? the one for the scimitar will get you over £50! (for a real one!)
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May 13, 2007 23:41:38 GMT
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ive done the same thing over the past ten years picking up what i thought couldbe rare haynes manuals for old J cars hoping to help people out one day and i cant give the bloody things away so recycled them more manuals than there are cars
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cheers HTH 
