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17K views 23 replies 15 participants last post by  Steve G  
#1 ·
There's none!!! No more repair manuals! So how will we do the maintenance?? Do you actually recommend going to the dealer?? If you've talked to the techs their mostly young and inexperienced, their learning as we bring our cars in,
Rather than being a guinea pig I highly recommend getting your own subscription so you know in advance.
Only....
$600 for the annual membership!!
Make sure to print and post it :p:p
Whoever gets it first.
A must have for the DIY'r.
If you don't have the repair manual then it may cost quadrupole going to the dealer.
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#3 ·
Lack of a printed service manual for sale is a sore point for me because those manuals are like the bible to your car. I study them till I know them forward and backward. All the OEMs have gone this route so there's not much you can do but pony up. It's unlikely the DIYers are going to go for a full year subscription. Rather, they'll spring for the shortest subscription and get the info they need to work a particular problem when it comes up. Kia's tech info website is better than Hyundai's for DIYers because the minimum charge is $19. for 3 days. The Sportage is much the same vehicle as the Tucson. That's still a hefty sum, though. Why not charge $1/hr with a minimum charge of $5. That would bring in a lot more money and be a better deal for DIYers. It doesn't take long to find what you need once you know your way around the site. I would make the suggestion to Hyundai but they don't want to hear from owners. Only dealers can make suggestions.
 
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#5 ·
Here's the solution: take that 35k you wasted on a seriously reliable car that never breaks down, and buy one that DOES. For example, you can buy yourself a rebuilt 70 Chevelle, and enjoy being able to do all the maintenance again.

I know, I know: it's frustrating that we can't get a service manual any more. But hey, we're not alone. All the other kids are dealing with it, as well. Guess we can find some consolation in knowing that first, these things don't break very often, and second, we've got this forum. Hopefully we'll get by some how?
 
#7 ·
Members of other car forums speak well of this online subscription provider. But my cars' ages have all achieved sufficient decrepitude for me to have been able to snag an original factory service manual for each - a couple being a set of mult. volumes. And cracks me up, some folks on here have thought to actually give me grief when referring to our beloved model as a truck:

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#9 ·
Less than 3 1/2 months? Necro-posting? Cracks me up. With the 'instant-on' 1-step registration procedure used by this and many social media platforms it's nothing to find on other car forums I frequent, that a 'Joined 24 minutes ago' newb has used up their 'first-ever' introductory post to make either some "barely pertinent to anything thread-related" quip, or
is asking a question of the OP in a thread started 15 years prior, and
painfully evident said newb hasn't dared to read any of the subsequent 45 replies, and
where that question has been answered in at least a dozen replies already, aaannd
where the OP has not even logged on in a decade.

It would be charming and amusing, if not like a joke after the 200th time hearing it.
 
#13 ·
Less than 3 1/2 months? Necro-posting? Cracks me up. With the 'instant-on' 1-step registration procedure used by this and many social media platforms it's nothing to find on other car forums I frequent, that a 'Joined 24 minutes ago' newb has used up their 'first-ever' introductory post to make either some "barely pertinent to anything thread-related" quip, or is asking a question of the OP in a thread started 15 years prior, and painfully evident said newb hasn't dared to read any of the subsequent 45 replies, and where that question has been answered in at least a dozen replies already, aaannd where the OP has not even logged on in a decade. It would be charming and amusing, if not like a joke after the 200th time hearing it.
Some people's comments are just asinine. Talking about totally rude!
 
#12 ·
Quite a bit more than 3 1/2 months. More like a smidge over 21 months. Though it's not just users necro-bumping old threads; the moderators also move new posts about frequently discussed topics to existing threads to make things easier to find and to avoid rehashing the same discussions every time someone new runs into the same issue.
 
#14 ·
This makes sense if you are a dealer or a shop that specialized in Hyundais. I don't see a model name, so the subscription probably covers all Hyundai models. Personally I prefer to have a book than a computer subscription or disk. There have to be other options.
 
#16 ·
I got my repair manual from workshopmanuals.org, and it’s been a game-changer for DIY maintenance. I get the frustration—manufacturers are making it harder to access repair info, pushing people toward dealerships where techs are often still learning on the job.
I just took a peek at that web site. The workshop manual is quite cheap. I paid over $60 USD for a used workshop manual a while back. It was a printed copy with two volumes and this is a PDF, but I can live with a PDF. Do you find the manual is fairly complete and covers the entire car? Does it offer troubleshooting diagrams to follow?
 
#17 ·
I drilled down to the 4th gen model, and unless there's more than just the single selection for '22-24 then the one I found is only for a diesel hybrid:

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And unsure whether the transmissions covered are U.S. market:

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#23 ·
It sounds others share my squinty-eyed take on too-liberal acquiescence to the 'easy but deadly download key'. Using the link above I simply rt. clicked (NOT click) each bulleted category and Save As to a master folder. Then, expand this subfolder but don't expand it further. Instead just rt. click OPEN the .htm file to the right and the whole section opens for its further detailed access per service or repair:

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