Thread: LR3 workshop Manual - at last I've found it!

Originally Posted by p38arover

You can take out a 24 hour sub to the LR GTR. I did so to download all the P38A info they had.

I stand corrected! When I last checked the site (middle of last year), LR had withdrawn the ability for individuals to register for the service. Maybe they had a change of heart - or was it a temporary withdrawal? Whatever the reason, I've just registered - so it is back on

Free or not , legal or not , I'm of the opinion that it's not much use
really . Without a Canbus reader , an understanding of what's wrong
( many a Dealer is clueless here........ ) and a hoist/tools/parts to
fix an out of warranty problem , it's little more than novel ......
There's been free-access around for years , you know .........
A Merck Manual won't turn you into a Cardiologist ;=)

Bugger - I was looking forward to being a Cardiologest.
Got the chain saw & everything.
Jonesfam,

Seemed to have opened a moral can of worms. Having owned several Disco's and experienced the joys and untimely failures of the product I feel the need to have a copy of the manual as part of my traveling kit; as important as my recovery gear!- I recall a (failed) trip to Alice Springs where my D2 overheated to the point of blowing a top hose - taking the vehicle to a remote Victorian repair agent who looked at he vehicle scratching his head saying.."It's not a Toyota mate, won't be able to do much". The only saving grace was having the RAVE CD on my laptop, which allowed me and the mechanic to remove the radiator, repair and replace; we would never have been able to achieve this without the manual and the nearest "authorized" dealer was a $2500 flat tray tow away.

If LR were to have a decent support network in the regional areas of Australia where we like to travel with our vehicles I wouldn't worry...it's probably not an issue in the UK or Europe....our country is a bit bigger.

As mentioned in an earlier reply(s), if this manual is not authorized it will disappear pretty soon. I am also of the opinion that there needs to be a "freely" available manual for a 5 year old vehicle - Imagine if Toyota or Nissan did not provide this?

The company selling the manual on the internet seems to have a suit of manuals for a number of vehicles. While I cannot vouch for the legitimacy of the source of the LR manual, in my mind it is a god send and an extremely valuable asset to my continued driving confidence in my Discovery 3.

Cheers

Originally Posted by Colin Pedersen

Seemed to have opened a moral can of worms. Having owned several Disco's and experienced the joys and untimely failures of the product I feel the need to have a copy of the manual as part of my traveling kit; as important as my recovery gear!- I recall a (failed) trip to Alice Springs where my D2 overheated to the point of blowing a top hose - taking the vehicle to a remote Victorian repair agent who looked at he vehicle scratching his head saying.."It's not a Toyota mate, won't be able to do much". The only saving grace was having the RAVE CD on my laptop, which allowed me and the mechanic to remove the radiator, repair and replace; we would never have been able to achieve this without the manual and the nearest "authorized" dealer was a $2500 flat tray tow away.

If LR were to have a decent support network in the regional areas of Australia where we like to travel with our vehicles I wouldn't worry...it's probably not an issue in the UK or Europe....our country is a bit bigger.

As mentioned in an earlier reply(s), if this manual is not authorized it will disappear pretty soon. I am also of the opinion that there needs to be a "freely" available manual for a 5 year old vehicle - Imagine if Toyota or Nissan did not provide this?

The company selling the manual on the internet seems to have a suit of manuals for a number of vehicles. While I cannot vouch for the legitimacy of the source of the LR manual, in my mind it is a god send and an extremely valuable asset to my continued driving confidence in my Discovery 3.

Cheers

Agree 100%, and I also agree it is high time these manuals were made available, on CD at least. I was just having a rant about the ease that ebay and online stores etc can undermine and promote the 'theft' of electronic media, made all the more popular due to people demanding it in the first place. I know it is supposedly banned from being sold online , but these things do have a habit of being sold in other ways, and undercover somewhat too. Look at the music industry for example

Nothing personal there Colin, but those are my views on the subject.

JC