Brad's Car Manuals

This site is a free, independent mirror of two open car repair manual databases: CHARM and LEMON. 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. It is open source and torrent-distributed. Read the original launch announcement for the full story.

What is CHARM?
CHARM (Collection of High-quality Auto Repair Manuals) is the predecessor dataset that LEMON was built on top of, covering 1982-2013. LEMON is a strict superset of CHARM - this mirror includes both.

Useful links:

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

Official LEMON sites:

• 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.