> All of their technical and repair manuals are available for free to anyone.

That should be the bare minimum. Ford charges you 40 dollar an hour for it and unless you know exactly what you are looking for you will spend several hundreds on it.

Too bad ford killed their old site, the print form was unauthenticated and you could print the entire schematics to pdf if you knew the internal model number. Or do what I did and run a script to dump it to higher res PNGs.

Any chance someone ripped that old site? Do you remember the URL? I don't have a Ford, just always curious about this stuff.

charm.li covers Fords and many other makes too up to 2013 ish. It is a pirate archive site holding workshop manuals for thousands of cars. Very useful. Very free. Long may it stay hidden.

More legitimately, alldata.com has repair data, workshop manuals for most marques up to today and will sell you either single vehicle (called "DIY") or a package aimed at independent mechanics where you can access anything. Same manuals either way, but you pay per vehicle with DIY (and have to contact support to switch.)

I use alldata for my GM truck, it is fantastic.

I didn't know they had shop manuals. That's been a pretty big limitation of my spouse's Buick is that there isn't any information or exploded-view diagrams of anything so we basically have to pay an hourly for someone else to change emissions parts in response to trouble codes.

I love whoever is behind charm.li very much- after the bad old days of Haynes manuals and broken PDF links on make-specific forums, it's a breath of fresh air to have one repository like that.

ETIS is dead and Ford finally pulled the plug, though since the current backend is some semi-custom IBM bloat I would not be surprized if you could get by that without too much hassle (took them three years to find out I was downloading all my car's travel and charging logs before they banned the dummy account, but now they track it and discontinued most of it anyways).

I won't go into details but searching around with the "forum" keyword and etis might get you somewhere (at least that did the trick a few years ago, now with LLM slop I don't know, and what the other person posted).

Being forced to release manuals doesn't make them good (thanks Massachusetts).

This is a misconception. The Massachusetts right-to-repair law didn't force Tesla to make their manuals free.

As others have pointed out here, other manufacturers like Ford and Toyota still charge for access to their manuals, even in Massachusetts. Tesla gives free access to anyone, worldwide.