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[waspy]

I've just been on the Haynes manaul site to look for the Omega manual for 2000 on.
It's under the short list for consideration.
I figure if enough of us contact Haynes, they may take this into their consideration.
You may think you don't need a maual, because you have an earlier car, but hey you may have a facelift oneday  

[mantagte]

link to website please

[TheBoy]

I've just been on the Haynes manaul site to look for the Omega manual for 2000 on.
It's under the short list for consideration.
I figure if enough of us contact Haynes, they may take this into their consideration.
You may think you don't need a maual, because you have an earlier car, but hey you may have a facelift oneday  

The prefacelift manual is enough, main bits missing are wiring and interior trim.

[waspy]

Link www.haynes.co.uk

[MaxV6]

it's been my experience that the existing pre-facelift manual works just fine as a step to increase one's natural reach over the bonnet.

and as a swatter for small to middle sized spiders.

as such, i really  don;t see the need to update it or have a separate version for face lift miggys as well  

[shyboy]

I don't believe Haynes will produce a follow up for the Facelift models.
Let's face it, the Omega's an obsolete vehicle.
You 'knowledgable ones' can slag the manual off all you like. I still find it useful for quite a few things, provided you use a bit of common sense. We could all re-write it to be better I'm sure, (I can't understand why they never took the trouble to record the sizes of sockets etc. needed for different tasks). That would be a great time saving help for we mere mortals.
Hands off the Haynes Manual.  

[Jay w]

i have the prefacelift one and that covers most of the stuff i need.

if i had a 2.6 or 3.2 though i have a feeling i would be stuffed  

[albitz]

they could publish a manual...with one page...open it up and it says......JOIN OMEGA OWNERS FORUM  

[Ken T]

Yes, call it the "OOF Manual"  

With technical input from MarkDTM, James V6, etc.

Who shall we get to edit it ?   Loo-knee ?

Ken

[Bacon Butty Man]

i just used my Haynes manual for the first time, wanted to check the air filter, so i did, its clean enough.

[MarkG]

I get by with Mr Haynes on my facelift but I think it is a poor publication because:

1. Local newspapers are printed on better quality paper
2. The tiny B&W pics are few and far between and vitually impossible to make out.
3. There is no index.

I cut my teeth using a Haynes manual fixing up my 1972 Marina and later an MGB GT in the mid eighties. They used to be really good in those days.

[ians]

I'm with Shyboy.   It definitely has weaknesses but when supplemented by the forum I think its fine and is useful.  Not least for the torque values and wiring diagrams.

Even with the forum available, I would recommend anyone other than the most experienced to have one to hand.

[Andy B]

I'm with Shyboy.   It definitely has weaknesses but when supplemented by the forum I think its fine and is useful.  Not least for the torque values and wiring diagrams.

Even with the forum available, I would recommend anyone other than the most experienced to have one to hand.

Mr Haynes always used to just put a 'supplement' in the back to cover later versions of cars, facelift cars just need that, as they're not that disimilar from the older cars.

[ians]

I'm with Shyboy.   It definitely has weaknesses but when supplemented by the forum I think its fine and is useful.  Not least for the torque values and wiring diagrams.

Even with the forum available, I would recommend anyone other than the most experienced to have one to hand.

Mr Haynes always used to just put a 'supplement' in the back to cover later versions of cars, facelift cars just need that, as they're not that disimilar from the older cars.

should be a fairly minor addendum to deal with the drive by wire and body work changes.   I guess whether they do it depends on the potential return vs other publications they could be doing.

[Dave-C]

I've just been on the Haynes manaul site to look for the Omega manual for 2000 on.
It's under the short list for consideration.
I figure if enough of us contact Haynes, they may take this into their consideration.
You may think you don't need a maual, because you have an earlier car, but hey you may have a facelift oneday  

TBH, there's more than enough knowledge on here....  get an e-bay prefacelift manual....  you could alway search the web for a legit version of T.I.S..

DC