100 percent free online resource

[pat magroin]

Charm.li
I stumbled across this the other day and thought I would share it with y'all. I've gotten so much help from this site I thought I'd give back. Go to charm.li and your welcome! Hahaha seriously check it out.

Internet site with free diagrams, troubleshooting, etc. No sign up, no credit card, nothing. Free. If you haven't seen it before do yourself a favor and go check it out! Totally worth sharing.

 

[pjtoledo]

actually does seem ligit rather than too good to be true. who wants to go first?
operation CHARM - Search

 

[pat magroin]

 

[Jim Oaks]

I've looked at this a few times. It's almost like having a complete Haynes library online. I've looked at it wondering if I need to save any info from it before it disappears.

I've been suspicious of the .li domain.

I just pinged the domain and it comes back to South Park Networks LLC with an IP address of 91.231.182.188 which is in Kyiv Ukraine. That company is owned by a 19-year-old. The Owner lives in Ukraine but the business address is
9 Seagraves Rd, London, England, SW6 1RP. Doing a search of that address shows that there are 225 companies listed at that address. It looks like England has given notice that they are going to strike the company off the register in two months unless the owner gives just cause for them not to.

 

[JoshT]

I've intentionally not been posting the site for a few months now, trying to keep from adding to the attention.

The people that built it provided for downloading every section. If you look around they even provide the entire site for free download knowing that something is likely to happen and get taken down.

From their about page:

I may dig out a spare HD and get a backup myself, at least a copy of the sections for all of the vehicles I own.

 

[JoshT]

It's almost like having a complete Haynes library online.

Better than Haynes, it's like a full set of factory service manuals. Unlike the factory repair manuals, or also has the wiring diagram. That's something you have to purchase separate for most.

They e got the full manuals for my 2010 Kia. No one has those. The aftermarket never produced a repair manual for them because at the time Kia offered the factory manuals for free to owners. Years later (about the time they started being needed) they changed it to a paid service with a steep subscription price, but too late for aftermarket to pay attention to the need. You can buy CDs of the FSM on eBay now, but this site has all of it publicly available.

 

[SenorNoob]

I've got a couple models saved. Would probably be a good use of a 1tb external drive.