Brad's Car Manuals

This site is an independent 3rd party mirror of two open car repair manual databases: CHARM and LEMON. We are not affiliated with either project.

What is LEMON?
LEMON (Liberated Excellent Manuals ONline) is the largest collection of free car repair manuals, covering roughly 10,000 US and Canada market vehicles from 1960-2025. LEMON is open source and torrent-distributed. Read the original launch announcement for full background.

What is CHARM?
CHARM (Car History and Repair Manuals) is the predecessor dataset that LEMON is built on. LEMON is a strict superset of CHARM - this mirror includes both.

Useful links:

• LEMON launch announcement
• Download full database via torrent (~1.1 TB)
• Louis Rossman video about LEMON

Official LEMON domains:

• lemon-manuals.la
• lemon-manuals.org.ua
• lemon-manuals.gy

Other mirrors:

• lemon.dogeware.me

Thanks to Dogeware for the dark theme, which this site's styling is based on.