Topix Website

has anybody used the site for downloading a workshop manual yet i dont mind paying for access to the sit but how usefull is it i also see that you can download the software to look at faults which if you read the post on this site it might be handy to have this also and as an engineer i like to know how things work before i start to take it apart just incase it doensnt work when i put it back together!!!!

regards

john

wedontcareaboutpunctuationandcapitalletersinordertoseparatesentences...
Just kiding...

Yes, the topix is usefull for technical ones who want to service themselves their cars.
Yes, you can download the material simply by printing the info. Many have done it.
(There are even PDF printer emulators, if you know what I mean...)

By the way, that you mentioned you are an engineer, do you know which is the similarity between a dog and an engineer? (I, myself, being one... aaa... engineer, of course )
They both look smart but don't know how to express themselves.
Kidding again, hope you won't get offended. Sorry if otherwise...

I'm an engineer also and that was harder to read than a 'ladder diagram'.

A teacher asked her students to puncuate this sentence:
A woman without her man is nothing

The men wrote: “A woman, without her man, is nothing.”

The women wrote: “A woman: without her, man is nothing.”

Hello Alex

i am not offended in the least , safe in the knowledge that engineers built and mantain the world we live in along with help of a few other people also of course. just in case they feel left out!!

regards

john

EYorkshire wrote:

I'm an engineer also and that was harder to read than a 'ladder diagram'.

"Ladder Diagram" - that brings back old memories........ 2002 Honda VFR800
2002 Toyota Celica 140 Silver (mid life crisis - again!)
2007 FL2 GS Manual Army Reconnaissance Green + freel2.com sticker
2004 Toyota Celica 140 Black - Gone
2000 Toyota Celica 140 Silver - Gone
1998 Toyota Celica ST Pearl Green - Gone
1996 Nissan Primera 1.6 - Gone
1994 Rover Montego 1.6 Auto - Gone

Yeah, showing my age a little there.

EYorkshire wrote:

Yeah, showing my age a little there.

Were explained to us in the 'History of Computing' lessons....

Only joking - did quite a bit of LD programing on my degree course in the mid 1990's - never used in the wild... 2002 Honda VFR800
2002 Toyota Celica 140 Silver (mid life crisis - again!)
2007 FL2 GS Manual Army Reconnaissance Green + freel2.com sticker
2004 Toyota Celica 140 Black - Gone
2000 Toyota Celica 140 Silver - Gone
1998 Toyota Celica ST Pearl Green - Gone
1996 Nissan Primera 1.6 - Gone
1994 Rover Montego 1.6 Auto - Gone

I too was a design engineer for electrical systems in automotive industry.
Yeah, it's all my fault!!
I remember ladder diagrams and the awful but useful Boolean algebra.

Showed some young up and coming engineers my Thorntons slide rule and log tables.

I never got 'syntax error' messages with those!! Another member of the failed FL2 clutch/DMF club, twice.

Pegleg wrote:

Showed some young up and coming engineers my Thorntons slide rule and log tables.

Careful - You'll get arrested for doing that  2002 Honda VFR800
2002 Toyota Celica 140 Silver (mid life crisis - again!)
2007 FL2 GS Manual Army Reconnaissance Green + freel2.com sticker
2004 Toyota Celica 140 Black - Gone
2000 Toyota Celica 140 Silver - Gone
1998 Toyota Celica ST Pearl Green - Gone
1996 Nissan Primera 1.6 - Gone
1994 Rover Montego 1.6 Auto - Gone

I used slide rule and log tables in Iraq.
Weapons of maths instruction!  Another member of the failed FL2 clutch/DMF club, twice.