So I emailed Helm and asked if they were ever getting the service manual for the 2015 and the response I received was "I’m sorry, we’re not going to. Please log on Honda’s website." ... Well that sucks. Anybody have any good sources for services manual for the honda fit 2015 or possibly the 2013? I asked them to clarify what they mean by that and I got this "Good afternoon,

At this time, Honda is not going to be providing the service manual for the new models for purchase. I would like to apologize for any inconvenience. IF you have any questions, please contact our office.

Thank you,

Helm Customer Service
1-800-782-4356"

 

I am going to guess that it's still new model year so they wait awhile before selling it to the public.

There are 3rd party service manuals you can buy but nothing beats a real service manual by the manufacture.

So yeah I am curious about some things about this car and would love to see what it's got!!

 

The service manuals are digital format now, no longer in print format. All are password protected and watermarked for dealerships unless Honda offers it to the public which I'm not sure on. My Honda contact said they are doing this so the service work is kept at the dealers. I agree that some work should remain with the dealer, but for those who know what their doing should be allowed to have this document included with the cost of the car.


That's my take, if you buy a car, you should have a parts list and service manual. You bought it, you should have access to all the particulars how to service it and go to any shop you want. Where warranty issues come into place is if you take it to a 3rd party shop and they screw something up, I can see Honda not honoring the warranty.

 

I am also under the impression that the manuals are only available online now, but can't you get them from Service Express? I only found-out about it recently and have not subscribed to it, but I think others on these forums have. I have also seen a few GK wiring diagram PDFs floating around that I am assuming came from there. The owner's manual also makes reference to it on page 354 where past manuals have referenced Helm.

 

Yea I noticed that in my owners manual(service express) the cost to subscribe are something like $10 daily $50 for a month and $350 for a year...Guess this is hondas way of getting more money out of us people who like to do their on work.

 

Yea it really ticks me off that they don't provide a service manual. I guess when it comes time to for me to do some work on the car i'll find youtube videos or give in to the service express website and buy a subscription.

 

I completely agree that the move to online only manuals (with no option for a printed version) is a bad one. As far as I can tell, it only benefits Honda. However, from a purely economic view, the online only manuals may actually be cheaper than the printed manuals depending on whether you are allowed to download parts of the manuals. For example, if you were able to get what you needed in a month, that would be less than the printed manuals. The printed manuals aren't cheap!

 

Information is expensive. It is also profitable. Just like downloading music, or movies.

 

But is anyone sure that no print version is avail for 2015 FIT from Honda?
Don't think so, personally.

I'm a mechanical engineer at a vehicle manufacturing company (no, not at Honda!), but we have both pdf verion and paper/book for all our models.
I prefer pdf version if I'm to look for something at my desk.
I prefer a book if I'm in a shop to work on actual vehicle.

 

You got me thinking about the airlines wanted to get rid of the printed flight manuals in favor of the Apple iPads to save on weight and printing costs.

For car shop I'd have to question how rugged these tablets can be but in a special thin rubber protective case with oil free protection screen might work.

The e-paper kindle might be perfect.

 

Someone, somewhere will break the password protection and put the 2015 Fit Dealer Service Manual and put it on line free of charge. I may be the only one here who remembers FUPROLOCK.

 

Sure hope that someone does. I cannot stand to have a car or motorcycle without the FSM; how else are you supposed to know how to do ANYTHING properly so far as service is concerned? The reason my cars and motorcycles are all in perfect condition is that I have NEVER allowed anyone to touch them!

No dealer will ever see my (wife's) Fit, or anything else in my garage.

 

Apparently so, it gets zero hits on Google!

 

HEAR HEAR!!! Exactly....

 

Let me take you back to the days of yesteryear ... oopps, wrong kind of program.

Back in the days when new computer programs like Lotus 123 and dBase III came on multiple floppy disks, they were "protected" by little built in programs to prevent copying. The programs were expensive ($300-800 each) and each computer had to have its own copy. One such protection copy was called ProLock. A new version of dBase was coming out. Two days after it was released a hacker program was free at pirate sites and it was called FU-ProLock. dBase would look for its key disk and FU-ProLock would tell it "Yeah, yeah, it's there. Get back to work!"

The last thing I want to do is fiddle with the mechanics and/or electronics on my Fit EX. I like the car too much, but I'd like to know where things are that the owners' manual don't mention, even things that aren't asterisked..

 

Ah, yes, I remember those days. I worked for a company called CADAM, that made CAD software. When they put out a $1000 PC version it came with a hardware dongle that had to be inserted into the serial port. Every other line of code queried the dongle to make sure that it was present. It was rather effective and very few copies of CADAM were pirated.

The main competitor, AutoCAD didn't use copy protection, and it was widely copied. Lots of engineers had copies of AC at home and therefore taught themselves how to use it.

The ironic end was that, with a ready pool of self-trained users, AC proved much more popular and profitable than CADAM. Sure, many copies were pirated, but businesses bought their copies and in the end, AC outlived CADAM.