About Haynes

Haynes Manuals…You can work on your vehicle. Let Haynes show you how!

The worldwide leader in automotive and motorcycle repair, maintenance and customizing manuals with sales of over 7 million manuals annually and over 150 million total sold globally, Haynes Manuals are a must read for all car owners. Haynes Manuals are the ultimate DIY guide books for used, collector, and newer vehicles. As one of the most widely read automotive books in the world, Haynes Manuals covers the motoring industry from Acura to Volvo, from BMW to Yamaha.
What sets Haynes Manuals apart is the attention to detail that goes into the production of each book. Every manual is written from hands-on experience based on a complete teardown, which is the step-by-step procedure of dismantling a particular vehicle part-by-part. This is followed by the detailed rebuilding of the specific model it documents. Writing each manual takes 30 man-weeks, with authors working as teams to shorten the production time and avoid fatigue during the difficult process. Hundreds of photographs accompany each manual’s step-by-step instructions. The books are written from the actual experience of Haynes’ own expert personnel using only a basic set of tools and presented in a style that any DIYer can follow, even a beginner. The DIYer can save a great deal of time and money, not to mention feeling proud of the job, by using a Haynes book.
John Haynes OBE wrote and published his first book, on building an Austin 7 Special, while he was still at school in 1956. He wrote two more ‘Special builders’ manuals while doing his National Service in the RAF. The first ‘proper’ Haynes Manual, for the Austin Healey ‘Frogeye’ Sprite, was published in 1965. Based on the teardown and rebuild of the project vehicle and with extensive use of step-by-step photographs--a process that has not changed to this day--this manual set the standard for many generations of manuals to follow.
Haynes Publishing was founded in 1960. The main office is located in Somerset, England and a US office is just outside of Los Angeles, CA. Printing for the company is done in Nashville, TN.
As a result of having completed over 2,000 teardowns, Haynes offers over 500 manuals in the U.S. There is an extensive selection of auto repair books, written in both English and Spanish, and nearly 200 motorcycle and ATV repair books. Haynes manuals can be found in all better auto parts retail stores and online at www.haynes.com.
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Haynes Manuals is the leading publisher of DIY repair manuals in the world, selling more than 7 million manuals every year. Whether you have a newer model or a classic or customized car, truck, or motorcycle, Haynes has a guide for you.

Haynes Publishing was founded in 1960 with the idea that you have to tear down a vehicle in order to create step-by-step instructions for rebuilding it. As a result, Haynes has conducted over 2,000 vehicle tear downs in order to create more than 500 manuals. Best of all, the expert mechanics at Haynes use a standard toolbox to create their instructions. This means that the average DIY will not have to purchase expensive, specialized tools in order to complete the maintenance tasks and repairs in any of the manuals available from Haynes.

Haynes North America, Inc. is headquartered in Newbury Park, CA. In addition to publishing the extensive catalog of Haynes products, both print and digital versions, they also publish Clymer Manuals for motorcycles, ATVs, and boats and a line of Chilton Repair Manuals, available at www.chiltondiymanuals.com.