A vehicle workshop manual writer for the people who hold the engineering data

A workshop manual is written for a technician with a vehicle on a lift and a torque wrench in hand. Every procedure has to say which vehicles it covers, what tools it needs, what to renew and what to tighten to. INKFLOW drafts service and repair manuals for vehicle makers, converters, specialist builders and fleet engineering teams from data they own.

If you are looking for a repair manual for your own car, this will not help, and it is better to say so now. INKFLOW does not hold manufacturers' repair data and will not guess at specifications. The manufacturer, a dealer or a published manual for your model is the place to go.

Name it a vehicle workshop manual in your brief and the writer works from guidance for service and repair manuals, asking for applicability by model, engine and VIN range, specifications, fluids, special tools, renew-on-refit parts, fault codes and wiring data. Missing values stay as marked placeholders and the draft goes to your technical approver before release.

Start a workshop manual

Assembling a workshop manual from your engineering data

1
Define the vehicles covered
Models, engine and transmission codes, VIN ranges and markets. Every procedure inherits this, so a step never silently applies to the wrong build.
2
Supply the specifications
Torques with angle stages, clearances, tolerances and service limits, fluid types and capacities, and the fasteners and seals that must be renewed.
3
Add diagnostics and wiring
Fault codes with descriptions and test logic, wiring diagrams, connector views and pin-outs that the test steps must quote exactly.
4
Name the approvers
The engineer who signs off content and, for electric or hybrid vehicles, the high-voltage competent person. Once you accept the quoted price, they review the draft before release.

Repair manual procedures written for the workshop

A header on every procedure

Vehicles covered, special tools with approved equivalents, parts to renew and the safety notes that apply, all before step one.

Removal and installation in order

Numbered steps that match the callouts on your exploded views, with each one-time-use fastener flagged at the step where it is fitted.

Fault finding that follows your logic

Fault tables and pinpoint tests built on the manufacturer's test sequence you supply, not on general advice.

High-voltage isolation

Your isolation procedure, discharge wait, proving-dead method and what to do when isolation is not possible after damage, with the PPE you require.

Airbags, pretensioners and ADAS

Disconnection and handling rules for pyrotechnic parts, and which repairs trigger a driver-assistance sensor calibration.

Coding after replacement

Which modules need coding or programming once replaced, and the tool or service that does it.

Workshop manual safety that is never paraphrased

Electric and hybrid vehicles carry enough stored energy to kill, and HSE expects manufacturers to give repairers the information to work on them safely. INKFLOW will not write a high-voltage procedure from general knowledge: if your isolation steps are not supplied, that section is a placeholder and the draft says so.

We draw your process flows and diagnostic decision trees; exploded views and wiring diagrams come from your own drawings, placed beside the steps. Nor does it vouch that a procedure is correct. Your engineers confirm that before any technician relies on it.

Questions

Who is this for?

Vehicle manufacturers, low-volume and specialist builders, converters such as ambulance or campervan builders, and fleet operators with in-house engineering: anyone writing for technicians from data they hold.

Can it cover a conversion we fitted to a base vehicle?

Yes, for your conversion. Procedures for the base vehicle should follow its manufacturer's own information, and the draft refers to that rather than reproducing it.

Can it update a manual after a model-year change?

Upload the current manual to have it revised, and send the changed data. Values that did not change are kept exactly; the new ones come only from you.

What if our data has a gap, such as a missing torque?

The procedure is still written, and the gap shows as a marked placeholder naming what is missing, so your engineers can find and fill every one before release.

Do prices include VAT?

Prices include any VAT; nothing is added at checkout.

We are an organisation. How can we pay?

Single orders are paid by card at checkout. For subscriptions and repeat orders, care homes, councils and businesses can ask about paying by Direct Debit or standing order at app.inkflowstudio.org/organisations.

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