‹eManuals›
For mechanics and owners

The service manual that answers back.

Ask a question about the car in front of you. eManuals reads the factory manual for that exact make, model and year and tells you the procedure, the spec, and the page it came from.

  • Grounded in factory manuals
  • Every answer cites its page
  • Scoped to your exact vehicle
What you get

The manual, one question at a time

Plain-language questions

Ask in plain words, get the procedure

Type the job the way you would say it. The answer comes back as numbered steps, each with its torque spec and warning where the manual gives one.

See how it works
Pencil sketch of a phone showing a numbered repair procedure next to a wrench
How it works

Three steps from question to page

  1. Pencil sketch of a hand choosing a car on a phone
    1

    Pick the vehicle

    Make, model and year, or type the VIN.

  2. Pencil sketch of a mechanic typing on a phone beside a car
    2

    Ask in plain words

    "Front brake pad replacement" or "P0420".

  3. Pencil sketch of an open service manual with a phone showing the same procedure
    3

    Read the cited answer

    Steps, torque specs and warnings, with the manual page beside them.

Three promises

What you can count on

01 / 03

From the manual, never from memory

eManuals answers only from the text of the manual for your vehicle. If the manual does not say it, neither do we.

02 / 03

Specs inside the answer

Torque values, fluid capacities and warnings appear in the steps where you need them, with the manual's own tables and diagrams.

03 / 03

One subscription, the whole library

No manual to buy, nothing to download. One plan opens every manual we hold, for every vehicle you work on.

Guides

Guides for the job in front of you

Short, checked articles on a car, an engine, a symptom or a code, written to get you to the manual page that settles it.

All guides
Who it is for

Made for the people who open the hood

Pencil sketch of a hand choosing a car on a phone

Owners and DIYers

The procedure for your own car, in the order the factory does it, with the warnings you would otherwise learn the hard way.

Mechanic working under the hood of a car

Independent workshops

Fifteen makes a week, one place to ask. The right spec in under a minute, cited, so the technician can check it before torquing.

How a two-bay shop uses it
Pencil sketch of a mechanic typing on a phone beside a car

Mobile mechanics

On a phone, under the car, without a laptop full of PDFs. Ask, read the page, get on with the job.

After the first job

What people say after the first job

I asked for the front caliper torque on a 2016 Forester and got the number with the manual page next to it. First time an app has shown me where the answer came from.
Marcus T.Independent workshop owner, Portland, Oregon
Typed the VIN, it picked the right engine and asked which trim before answering. Beats scrolling a 900-page PDF on my phone under the car.
Dana R.Mobile mechanic, Leeds
Weekend DIYer. It walked me through the timing-belt job on my Golf step by step, warnings included, and I could read the manual page beside each step.
Priya S.Owner, Melbourne
Pricing

Try it first. Then one plan for the whole library

Ask a few questions free with just your email. When you are ready, one subscription opens every manual in the library.

  • A few free questions to start
  • One plan, every manual, every vehicle
  • Cancel any time
How pricing works
eManuals · 2014 BMW 328i (F30)

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