who remembers ?

[Barrie]

50 years ago the car hand book showed you how to adjust the tappets, these days it tells you not to drink the contents of the battery

That's the state of society. Worrying isn't it?

The Alvis TE21’s manual I owned not only instructed on tappets but advised a de-coke every 24,000 miles and gave instructions. (Wot’s a de-coke Dad?)
My Audi Q5’s manual is 400 pages long (and thin paper too) and yet the car doesn’t even have a dipstick!

[AH1951]

Sometimes, reading the owner's handbook is a good idea, but I just hate reading instructions.
That's because I think I already know everything.
However, if I had read the owner's manual before changing the oil in my Mercury Grand Marquis, I would not have wondered why only a small quantity of oil poured out upon removing the drain plug, nor have been puzzled that it only took a small quantity to refill to the mark on the dipstick.
I later found out the sump had TWO drain plugs.

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[Per]

Anyone our age(ish) will know them all. It means we're old....

It's not so bad when you consider the alternative