By Karen Jones on Tuesday, September 04, 2001 - 06:50 am: Edit

Hubbie's keen to have one, so dutiful wife is inquiring. So far I've been quoted $200.00 plus shipping, can anyone suggest a better deal? 2001 Disco....thanks!

Karen

By JC on Tuesday, September 04, 2001 - 07:01 am: Edit

Karen,
I got my workshop manual for my 95 Disco dirt cheap off of Ebay. You might want to try looking on there. $200 seems a little steep to me for a workshop manual.
Good Luck,
JC

By Karen on Tuesday, September 04, 2001 - 04:55 pm: Edit

JC,

Thanks for the suggestion. I looked on ebay and could only find older shop manuals. Don't know if the 2001 comes up less often because it's so recent. I'll keep looking and I'm still open to any other suggestions for sources.

Karen

By Jeff Bieler (Mrbieler) on Tuesday, September 04, 2001 - 05:11 pm: Edit

Karen, you might be stuck paying a bit for yours. The Series II manuals haven't been around that long.

The demand for shop manuals on newer vehicles isn't as large as used ones.

Such is the cost of life on the "cutting edge"...

Sorry.

By Wes Legaspi (Wes) on Tuesday, September 04, 2001 - 05:35 pm: Edit

see if you can find someone who has one and take it to your local kinko's :-) it'll take awhile but it'll be a lot cheaper!

By Rico on Tuesday, September 04, 2001 - 05:56 pm: Edit

Email Nathan Crabtree at BOATBUGGY@aol.com to see what he could get. He seems to have better prices than most.

Rico

By Roverine on Tuesday, September 04, 2001 - 07:10 pm: Edit

Hi Karen,

We found out, from our dealer when we asked, that the 2001 DSII shop manuals from Rover are expensive (like $700 or more). LR dealers, as we were told, used to have printed manuals, but now use CD's that expire each year. Borrow your dealer's CD and print it (LOL).

Kim

By Scott A. Keen (Scottkeen) on Tuesday, September 04, 2001 - 08:00 pm: Edit

You can find a LR Workshop Manual on www.4x4connection.com

http://www.4by4connection.com/landrover2.html

Just checked, it's $75 for the Disco I workshop manual. You may want to call them to see if they have the Disco II manual.

By Karen on Wednesday, September 05, 2001 - 07:48 am: Edit

Scott, I called and they don't have manuals for the 2001 model year, and don't expect them for perhaps six more months. Jeff, you may be right about the cost of new ownership. Rico, I dropped Nathan an e-mail, if anything comes of it I'll post the word here. Wes, when Kim springs for the pricey tome, I'll borrow it from her, LOL! I'll probably just take a deep breath and buy a new one. It will hurt less when I give them Hubby's credit card number (G).

Karen

By Carl E. Cedeholm (Cederholm) on Wednesday, September 05, 2001 - 08:16 am: Edit

Karen,
Why not wait till the warrenty is closer to it's end? That's what I'm doing, by that time you'll be able to find them on ebay cheap. Let the dealer worry about the problems till then.

Roverine
If it's true that Rover is now making CD manuals, see if he'll let you burn a copy his CD, as long as your not planning on selling any copies. "what, did I say that??" ...and I hope he's not saying the CD is $700+, that's crazy...CD are far cheaper than books to make.

Carl

By Roverine on Wednesday, September 05, 2001 - 09:02 am: Edit

kim

By Dean Brown (Deanbrown3d) on Thursday, September 06, 2001 - 02:39 am: Edit

Kim,
You have a CD burner?

By Jeff Price on Thursday, September 06, 2001 - 07:50 am: Edit

I have bought my manuals from Landrover enthusiast's web site in the past (used to be the LRO site). www.landroverenthusiast.com. I don't see the Disco II manuals there but you could try contacting them. It does take a few weeks to arrive, though.

-jeff

By Greg Braswell on Thursday, September 06, 2001 - 11:25 am: Edit

Karen,
Send me an e-mail and I will forward a couple of replies I got to the same question a few weeks ago. I've not bought mine yet either but will soon along with OBD-2 software.

By Mike Beiergrohslein (400mcs) on Thursday, September 06, 2001 - 12:21 pm: Edit

Are the "manuals" the same as Haynes manual. If not is there any benifit of buying one for a Disco 1??
Thanks

By Jeff on Thursday, September 06, 2001 - 02:51 pm: Edit

One more reason I see for creating an online manual. I have thought of scanning mine. LOTS of pages though!

I would have to rent one of those feeding scanners. I will look into it.

By Axel Haakonsen (Axel) on Friday, September 07, 2001 - 03:39 am: Edit

An online manual would be great, but there is this one little obstacle called copyright.......
Posting copies of a copyrighted LR manual is not an option, but original tech articles is another story. Keep sending them to Ho, and he will post them.

By Carl E. Cedeholm (Cederholm) on Friday, September 07, 2001 - 03:51 am: Edit

Is the copyright violated if there is no money changing hands? Or are we entering Napsterland?

By Mike Rupp (Mike_Rupp) on Friday, September 07, 2001 - 04:04 am: Edit

Yes, the copyright would be violated even if there is no money changing hands. That's the point, no money would be going into the publishers hands. Same thing with Napster.

By Horness Spencer (Horness) on Friday, September 07, 2001 - 04:32 am: Edit

How everyone chipping in to buy the CD manual, and then... ahem, making a "backup".

Just a thought.

By Carl E. Cedeholm (Cederholm) on Friday, September 07, 2001 - 04:57 am: Edit

scanned and burned onto CD...
who said that???

By Dean Brown (Deanbrown3d) on Friday, September 07, 2001 - 05:44 am: Edit

Kinko's photocopies 2-sided at 16 cents / leaf. I'm guessing there are 500 of them, so that's $80 + binding. Hmmm. Oh well, just an idea.