2007-2008 Service Manual

[sollybro]

I have a brand new, unopened 2008 HELM Service Manual on the Big Island; Kona side. (it covers 07-08).

Let me know if anyone is interested.

Aloha

[salston]

How much are you looking for it? Where did you buy it? It would be nice to have one in the future. I'm trying to replace a reflector on my back fender. Email me at salston@vt.edu.

[honda08]

Hi SollyBro
I would like to buy honda CR-V 2008 service manual. Is it still available and how much?
Thanks
Honda08

[Radar24]

Is the manual available? How much? I was just about to buy one from Helm.
RG

[Radar24]

Anyone there?

Seems like 'Sollybro' is incomunicado.
None of the request for availability have been answered.

If you have it I am still interrested!
RG

[sollybro]

Aloha Radar24 ,

I sent you a Private Message right after your initial post.

Sorry it didnt get to you.

However, yes, I still have my copy, new, still in its shrink wrap.

I paid full-price from HELM, plus shipping.

How about $100 and no shipping?

Let me know,

Thanks.

~B

[yoods]

I have a chance to buy a 2007 manual for around $60. Does anyone know if that will work for my 2008

I see that Honda has a 2007 manual and a 2007-2008 manual, with a difference of over $40.! Is there really that much differnce between the manuals?

[sollybro]

There are updates in several sections on the 08'.

However, since both models are fundamentally similar, so are the service manuals.

Get the 08', if you want to be sure of all the seemingly small details that have changed; Rear diff, AWD fluid requirements and service interval, added body section in 08' catalog etc.

Also, if you have the EX-L, in 08, the driver's seat gets power, so there are electrical wiring differences, etc.

I have my copy for sale, brand new, in never-opened cellophane, for 75 plus whatever USPS charges on their website for shipping.

If you are on the Big Island, then you get free shipping.

Let me know,

~B

[Radar24]

You seem to know a lot about an unopened manual.
That's kind of odd!
You per chance receive two from Helm by accident?
-RG

[sollybro]

Before I make any purchase, I tend to review my options thoroughly.

And yes, before I decided on the relative merits of the 2007-only service manual versus the more updated 08' service manual, I did my homework, just like our friend YOODS is attempting to do.

Being a mechanical engineer lends oneself to being thorough and anal with respect to details.

Of course, being an E.E. you wouldnt understand :) (you know, with the randomness of electrons being unpredictable, how can you be precise :)

~B

[tsmithvt]

Being a mechanical engineer lends oneself to being thorough and anal with respect to details.
Of course, being an E.E. you wouldnt understand :) (you know, with the randomness of electrons being unpredictable, how can you be precise :)

~B

A delayed welcome to the CRVOC.:) Didn't realize that you were a ME. I retired from General Dynamics in 2007 after 38 years in the profession (25 as an Automotive Engineer/R&D).

What does a ME do on the "Big Island" anyway?

[Radar24]

~B,
I was just pulling your chain.

I could not wait to open my manual. I helped at least one CV-R OC member out with it - nothing expected in return. Plus I used it for my own purposes. Better directions than expected, but poor diagrams. No pictures so far have I seen.

You must admit there is just a hint of ODDness about buying a Helm manual at full price + S/H (about $150), asking 2/3 of the cost or $100, agreeing to sell it at half price or $75 with S/H included, changing your mind deciding to keep it for future use after disagreeing to include half of the shipping cost to the mainland in a reasonable time frame. Then putting it back up for sale again at $75 without S/H.

Are you now sure you want to sell it?

If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck and writes like a duck…it probably is a duck.


EE vs ME.
If it was not for EEs designing computers you would not have a job unless you were good with a slide ruler. Or an abacus
On the other hand without MEs the PC would be in a huge card board box with a mess of wiring and no ICs.

By the way I have some experience at both engineering disciplines. Not in an officially capacity but in practice. I did a stint at RCA in Burlington Mass (became GE after I left) in their vehicle testing equipment facility; that included the M1 Abrams tank and the M2 Bradley fighting vehicle. At that facility RCA by the way developed the Lunar Land Rover about 15 yrs earlier. Then at Honeywell and finally at Lockheed-Martin. Where I where I worked on a demo of the F22 cockpit display. Finally on a submarine antenna controller just before ending up in a wheel chair. Actually I drove an M113 armored tracked vehicle (often seen today in third world countries armed by the US) in the ARMY’s M.I. (Military Intelligence) at Ft. Hood TX were prototypes of the Army/Marine dune buggy scouting vehicles prototypes were tested as a side line. I personally drove around a radar team in FT Hood before made Radar team leader. Previous duty was at the southern boundary of the DMZ on the 38th parallel (Korea) for you guessed it - M.I. at a radar site up on a DMZ hill. Specifically in Gary Owen’s 4th of the 7th Cavalry (successor to General Custer’s 7th Cavalry). At the tail end of the draft my number came up with one year as an ME major at U of H in CT.

None of this trivia is neither here nor there; it just sort of shows a slight ME background before my service in the Army. After which I decided chasing electrons was more fun switching to EE. at UCONN where I got my BSEE.

All of this is factual stuff- just a series of coincidences. Presently I am working on designing my second set of disc brakes on my brand new Tilite Titanium wheel chair. I got from the generous W. Roxbury MA VA a few days ago. (Oh no, brakes, isn't that is ME).

I forgot, I have had on my architectural hat designing the past few months. The last version of mant versions of an accessible addition to my house. To be built soon if we can come up with enough money. With IKE a few days ago, raising hell in Texas, we might be another casualty as far away as NH. IKE possibly throwing a wrench in the works. Preventing us from getting a loan we cannot afford.

AS far as being precise and thoroughly investigating all the facts before hand, MEs do not have a monopoly on that. I too have a serious case of the illness.

If you ever need a slide ruler, I have one you can have for say $75 S/H included. FIRM!

Price nailed down and fixed with blind copper rivets. Delivered in a space frame ultra low weight package guaranteed to protect the ruler under all foreseen rough handling! (Box and bubble wrap) Easily passing a six foot drop test with no problems in the package. Thus maintaining its smooth sliding action. I did use a computer programs to design the package. I had no choice; my slide ruler is still in its original sealed wrapping.

I have to go now. Need to track down and count some wayward electrons.

-RG