BACKGROUND:
While I am not really "into" the mechanical side of vehicles (as evidenced by the Mercedes 202 sitting in the driveway STILL waiting for restoration!) however other members of the family were into restoration, showing and twerking the performance of various classic and "modern" cars, some years ago. Whilst being focused on old British vehicles, they also "played around" with some Japanese cars, including the Toyota Camry.
This manual was used by them for references but it's usefulness to them has long since past so this manual is looking for another workshop to live in.
HAYNES REPAIR MANUAL
TOYOTA CAMRY 1997 ~ 2001
Covering all models
Published by Haynes Publishing USA & Britain (those who are into the world of Automobile servicing will be very familiar with this company)
2000 Edition
This is not a "Oh look at those nice pretty pictures of the Camry's type of book, it is for the mechanic or automotive electrician who loves to keep these cars running just as though it had come off the production line yesterday.
Loaded with technical information, diagrams and component photographs and detailed information on the mechanics such as a complete engine strip and rebuild or figuring out what is wrong with the electrical system with complete circuit diagrams.
I have taken a photograph of the contents pages so you can get an idea of just what areas this book covers.
Soft cover
NO personal writing at all on any of the pages and no "working notes"!
ISBN 1-56392-404-8
COSMETIC CONDITION:
You may initially think, "Oh it's a mechanics reference and is going to be dirty, oily and in poor shape"
Not so ... the "mechanic" in the family looked after his books fairly carefully and this manual, while absolutely showing signs of use (page creases mainly) there is no significant damage to the manual.
Clean - front & rear book jacket and all internal pages
NO handwritten notes of any kind
NO damage to the glued spine, pages are held securely
NO torn or missing pages!
There are fairly obvious signs of "foxing" i.e the paper used has not degraded with time and remains a Creamy White colouring. Paper suffering from foxing tend to start going Brown and eventually end up as a rather Chocolate Brown looking piece of paper. The pages in this book have foxing around the outer edges but rapidly decreases going into the centre of a page.
All text and photographs (generally Black & White) are perfectly readable.
To preserve the current very good condition, I have now placed the book within a sealed cellowrap packaging (cellowrap will not react with the paper) and it now patiently waits to assist someone else to bring their A-Series engine to peak performance.
For a well used mechanics manual that is now 25+ years old, this book is in really good condition - all things considered.
