On 27 Oct 2004 08:20:32 -0000, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I think the price seems high because it actually encompasses 5 manuals. The
>esprit manuals I bought in early 90s were in the $150 range each for the
>parts and service manual (I think they had another one or two manuals
>available for separate systems).
>
>I pretty much just consider it the price of admission and don't consider it
>obscenely high. That said, it's only a matter of time before someone posts
>the manuals in pdf for sale on ebay or available free to download just as
>the S1 and S2 manuals have.
>From what I've heard Lotus legal have been going after hosts/
suppliers of online/CD manuals very aggressively in the past few
months. Despite the legalities I found them invaluable when touring
overseas when you might be some hundreds of miles from a main dealer
and so I either carry a CD for use and printing at an internet cafe or
use an electronic copy on my PDA (Before Lotus legal come breathing
down my neck I own paper copies of every manual I have an electronic
copy of)
One "justification" for the high price of the paper manuals I've seen
is that the coated "oil proof" paper used by Lotus is *very*
expensive. Personally I think that USD450 = GBP245 doesn't seem too
bad for 5 volumes - especially in the context of the car being $40k
and an average service probably around $2-300 - I doubt Lotus make
much if any profit on the paper manuals.
Martin
72/45 90/94/M100 96/111
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