Haynes manuals....

[Zippyworld]

Greetings all,

When I was a sprogg I used to love looking through the Haynes manual that my Dad got for each of his cars, funny thing is I didn't become a mechanic...

Anyway, is there such a thing for a 98 XJR that anyone is aware of ? Something that will tell me what each part is called, that sort of thing?

Maybe on CD ROM if necessary ?

[Markymark69]

I think you can get a workshop manual cd on ebay, not sure about a Haynes manual.

[SeismicGuy]

I bought a 2005 XKR almost 2 years ago and the first thing I did was search for a hardcopy manual. These were available at a reasonable cost for every single other car I have owned. However, NOT SO for Jaguar. The JTIS CD that you can find advertised on Ebay and other sources is a very very poor second choice. I cannot figure out why Haynes, Helms, Chilton or someone else has not come up with a manual for recent Jaguar models.

Doug

[Zippyworld]

Not sure why I didn't think of Ebay in the first place !

Yeah, it kind of puzzled me why a hardcopy is not available.

Thanks for your input

[Jaguar steve]

Haynes have never produced a manual for either the X300 or the X308. You could at a push use an XJ40 Haynes manual for much of the work on a X300.

The JDHT have released the factory workshop manuals for the X300 range on CDs, but when I asked a couple of years ago they told me there are no plans to release a similar one for the later X308.

You can buy several different "workshop guides" for the V8s from places like ebay for pennies. I've bought two and they both went straight in the bin.

The only option I know of is to buy a genuine JTIS CD again from ebay, and get used to the rather odd way information is presented on it.