Factory Service Manuals

Have had a search up on ebay for a long time for 2012 Tacoma manual and nothing useful ever shows up. Just the stuff they give you with the truck or shifter knob junk............

Are service manuals available anywhere?

 

You mean like this?

https://www.amazon.com/Toyota-Tacom...8-1&keywords=2012+toyota+tacoma+repair+manual

 

Save your money.... you can pretty much find everything on the internet

http://www.customtacos.com/tech.old/files/05FSM/repair.html

 

Google and YouTube are your friends....and they're free.

 

Great resource!
Thanks for posting it.

 

For $25 bucks, get the hard copy... Or at least find a download.... Relying on a website is great until it's no longer in service.

 

You can find these Haynes manuals at O'Reilly's and AutoZone, if you have those in your area.

I have a Haynes manual, but I have never been a big fan of them. The pictures aren't great and information is occasionally incorrect or omitted altogether.

Do they still make the original factory repair manuals? I can't seem to find them anymore. They were great because they went into very specific detail about everything, but they were just so expensive!

 

Haynes is basically useless have seen them and for anything beyond oil changes it usually says take it to the stealership. No wiring diagrams etc.

The posted link looks like what I'm after but want it in dead tree format.

Jim

 

Well depending on how much free time you have, you could save each PDF, merge them all, then convert to dead tree...

 

Go here to TIS ( Toyota Technical Information System ): https://techinfo.toyota.com/techInfoPortal/appmanager/t3/ti?_nfpb=true&_pageLabel=ti_home_page&contextType=external&username=string&password=sercure_string&challenge_url=https://techinfo.toyota.com/techInfoPortal/login/techinfo&request_id=1148982236823150556&authn_try_count=0&locale=en_US&resource_url=https%3A%2F%2Ftechinfo.toyota.com%2F

Get a short term subscription for your specific year Tacoma and download all you want or need. Then print them onto dead trees at your leisure.

Subscription rates are as follows:

Subscription Type which includes: Service Bulletins, Repair Manuals, Wiring Diagrams, Technical Training and Other Technical Information.

Standard:

2 Day - $15

Monthly - $75

Yearly - $400.

 

Autozone have the Haynes for $23

 

I think I have almost every factory service manual for all the Tacos .
If someone with some website experience could help me out , I would post them all up for the members .
Problem is , Its not exactly legal .
Anyone care to give me some pointers

 

Upload them to Google Drive and just share the link. You can create folders on there just like a normal computer to keep everything oranized.

I looking for the 1995 tacoma FSM. the 5vzfe is different that year

 

Or people can use this: http://web.archive.org/web/20080731033603/http://www.ncttora.com/fsm/

 

Part of the reason you're not finding them on eBay is Toyota stopped using printed manuals around 2010 or 2011 (I think it was '11). Your best bet is subscription to TIS or finding older manuals and knowing that some things are different.

 

I agree... the "real" factory service manuals were 3X as expensive as the Haynes manuals, but well worth it. I wish they still made them. I bought a Haynes version because I like having a printed book when working rather than messing with a laptop with greasy hands. Better than nothing, but far from great.

 

I know old thread, but this good info so up to the top. Used an app and downloaded the all pdfs in one swoop. So no worry if site goes away, I have em all plus backups. ):

 

What app did that for you?

 

On Android used Getthemall
Just input the url, then go, then download. A ton of PDF's
There are PC apps as well. Not sure about iphone

 

I was able to download all the PDFs, but the file names are all non descriptive. So I have to open each one to see what it is. At 1500 or so files, kinda makes it useless. Unless someone has a better way.