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Honda Civic 1984 Thru 1991: All Models (Haynes Manuals)

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This book is well-structured by system (e.g., fuel and exhaust, engine electrical) and features thousands of actual black and white photos from the cars as well as thousands of diagrams. I found the book invaluable when I owned a 1991 Honda Civic CRX; a must-have for Civic owners.

this is a very helpful book. lives up to its promise of taking apart the honda civic completely. gives you the confidence and assurance of dealing with the problems of your high mileage honda civic. the book is very well organied too and supported by a very helpful collection of photographs.

I have to disagree with some of the glowing reviews here. I'm not a die-hard mechanic, but I wanted this book to help me do basic to medium repair jobs to save some money. For very basic stuff, it's ok. But in trying to do other more involved tasks, I found certain steps were missing, there was too much extra cross-referencing to other chapters needed, & the photos were not helpful for the steps at all. Add to that, the text is tiny, and not always bulleted out but written out in sentences which often combine a few steps into one.

I've worked on motorcycles mostly & compare it to my Yamaha manual, which is awesome - the text is large, bulleted into simple steps, the pics are specific to exactly what you're doing, and there are many of them. A beginner could start on that manual and go all the way thru to doing major overhauls. Also you dont have to break out a microscope to figure out what comes next like with this book.

If you're experienced with car repair, this book may be fine for you, but I expected better, and will unfortunately have to look elsewhere. I think the Honda shop manuals are still the best, and you can even find pdf copies free on the web for some of them.

You can't go wrong getting this manual as a reference whether you intend to do work on your car yourself or just want to know where and what stuff is. I have performed many maintenance tasks on my '89 Civic Wagon 4WD with assistance from this manual such as: drive axle replacement, valve timing adjustment, front and rear brake overhaul, master cylinder replacement, muffler replacement and the list goes on. There are many supplemental topics covered as well regarding general auto maintenance. The weaknesses I found were it covers stuff no one in their right mind will do such as overhaul CV joints. Everyone just buys axles and does a core exchange leaving that to the pros. I needed more photos and better description of the axle removal as well - I searched on the internet and found an excellent photo guide someone did for that. I also supplemented this with the official Honda manual which was supplied with the car but that guide is obtuse and does not have photos, only drawings where the Haynes is down and dirty with real life tear down photos. I highly recommend this if you are actually doing work - even if not, you can use it to learn more about the repair jobs that might be needed so when you speak to mechanics you are better informed about what they will do - or what they say they are going to do.

Haynes repair manuals are great! They are always detailed and have tons of pictures so you know what they are talking about!