Apparently they are online only and you pay Honda a fee to use them. Sucks, IMO. I prefer a bound hard copy.

 

I disagree, a searchable document is quite handy to have on a computer. Then, you could print just the pages you need for a repair...

Computer pages never get greasy...


For the one-day fee of $10, couldn't you download a complete service manual?

 

This is as close to a manual as you will ever get:

https://techinfo.honda.com/rjanisis/logon.asp

 

You guys should be so lucky, we Aussies cannot even get that close.
From what my Dealership Worskshop Manager told me last week even he cannot get that close,
he has to log onto the net and use Honda's Maris system to get anything the workshop
needs in ref to workshop repairs/replacement etc. and they cannot print it off either, they have
to keep running to and from the workshop to the PC.

How bloody stupid is that?
I wonder if Honda absorbs a % of the costs from hourly charges when the mechanics
have to keep leaving the job to refer to a PC for diagrams and tech data/specs etc. or does
the customer cough up the full amount for their stupidity?

 

It MAY be bootleg, but in the description it states Factory Licensed:

• This Factory Licensed CD contains the same Information as the Original Book!
• CD-ROM is Completely Searchable
• Numerous Illustrations and Diagrams
• Technical Diagnostic Procedures
• Disassembly and Installation Procedures
• Written by the Manufacturer
• Used by the Mechanics at the Dealership
• Compatible with both Windows and Apple Operating Systems
• Uses Adobe Acrobat Reader 7.0 and higher to view the manual

We don't want downunder47 to lie awake at night...

 

This site has the service manuals but doesn't seem to have the 2015s yet.

http://www.helminc.com/helm/homepage.asp?Style=helm

Mike

 

This site has the service manuals but doesn't seem to have the 2015s yet.

http://www.helminc.com/helm/homepage.asp?Style=helm

Mike

And they won't have one, for any of the 4th Generation, Honda discontinued the practice of printed manuals.

The link Lizzurd posted earlier in this thread is your only option; https://techinfo.honda.com/rjanisis/logon.asp

 

Printed service manuals seem to be a dying breed. For a 2003 CRV that we sold (very reasonably) to our son last year, the best I could come up with was a Chilton's (or maybe Haynes) manual from the auto parts store that was a combined Civic/CRV manual.

 

Does anybody know what the daily download limit is from the Honda site? If it's anything like the other manufactures, the book is likely broken into several hundred .pdf files of 1-5 pages per topic. I'm assuming you can't download and assemble a whole lot of the total manual and wiring diagrams in a day?

 

I'd be interested in knowing this too. I'd be willing to purchase a one-day subscription if i could download the entire 2015 CR-V book. Not interested in the 30-day or 1-year subscriptions at those ridiculous prices.

Otherwise, if one or two people are willing to split costs with me i could send them whatever i download and we could do the 30-day subscription. Let me know...

 

I was reading recently about someone having his account suspended for excessive downloads.


I have unlimited access to both Honda and Acura service manuals. I can tell you first hand the 2012 to 2016 CRV manuals are not in pdf format.

 

I was reading recently about someone having his account suspended for excessive downloads.

I have unlimited access to both Honda and Acura service manuals. I can tell you first hand the 2012 to 2016 CRV manuals are not in pdf format.

What format are they in? Depending on the format they are in they could be converted to PDF files.

 

HondaPartsGuru: So as you have unlimited access, you are likely quite familiar with the organization and layout of the data. If you select "brakes", can you see all 50 pages in a continuous flow, or are you forced to go thru extensive sub-menus to select, say 'master cylinder'. Can you download the brake system as a whole chapter, or is it broken into 10 subpieces. Can you print sections or pages?

If you can view it as html, you can either convert right to .pdf, or go thru the 'print' step and then convert.

I'm interested in 2013.

 

Like i said, i'm willing to split the costs of a 30-day subscription ($50 for subscription) with other (even multiple) people and download the documents they are looking for and pass them along.

 

It is not set up to print sections.

You have to drill down the the required pages and can only print the relevant pages.

It it not like the old pdf based manuals where you could potentially print off 100 pages at a time.

 

So there are other options available for much of the basic stuff. If I wanted to know about the CR-V's HVAC system, I wouldn't go looking in my Subaru manuals, but I'll bet that other contemporary Honda models would be essentially similar in concept, operation and basic repair? At under $30 each, would it be worth acquiring the prior generation CR-V, maybe the 2012 CrossTour and maybe the prior gen Civic as reference material for my 2013 CR-V?

 

So here's a non-Honda option. There are other subscription services out there that provide data to the independent repair shops. Last night I played around with one and tried drilling down and then downloading a few samples. I used a print prompt, and print-to-.pdf converter to store them. The pages come in with logos and disclaimers from the hosting company, and for this demo I cropped it down to just the meat. It looks like this service might 'lift' key diagrams and figures from the Honda online source, but then fills in their own text around it. Maybe there's more data provided, maybe less. Perhaps HondaPartsGuru could do a compare & contrast to the original for us?

This is from the 2012 Honda CR-V, Transmission section, the water to ATF fluid heat exchanger Remove & Replace page:

sorry - need to fix link.... Hmmm.... Mediafire is being strange tonight, so I made .jpg of the pages.