The Kirby stuff is great! But can anyone direct me to the "must-have" manual for post '88 XJS? Thank you for your help!.

 

JDHT (Jaguar Daimler Heritage Trust) has manual on CD, reasonable priced. Be aware that there are issues trying to run them CDs on Vista.

The regular paper Jaguar manuals are common Ebay items.

I prefer the paper manuals personally BUT the jaguar CDs often include the service manual, parts catalog, and electrical manual all together on one CD. You really need all three type of literature to work on these cars.

If you've never seen a genuine Jaguar service manual (or "ROM"-Repair Operations manual) you're in for a real treat :-). They are not the best organized manuals out there and jaguar had a pretty nonchalant attitude about correcting wrrors with each new addition. Still, you gotta have 'em. And, eventually you get the hang of reading it :-).

Kirby's book has info you will NEVER find in any Jaguar manual.

Cheers
DD

 

After spending some "intimate time" with my V-12, I had a hunch I was going to be in for a real treat with the manual ;-)....Thanx!

 

the must have is the shop manuals.
I only have 3 of the 4 manuals, I am missing book number 3.
The manuals are in green binders.

If you would like to get a better idea of what I am talkign about let me know, I can take pics of them to show you what they look like.

 

sorry to interupt i got the haynes manual first, then i got whitch i think is the one you were discribing above .green cover R O M incorporting XJ-S HE5.3. ,&6.0 supliments. iv got a 1989 5.3 am i readin the right one. OPERATION NUMBERS refair to, please can you throw some light on this one its rather anoying every time i look sumthin up it just says refair to when i paid £50 for the manual i was under the imprestion i was geting the whole thing.

 

The true, full manual is the four volume set....hard to find. The green "ROM"...repair operations manual.... is a condensed manual and better than Haynes but, yes, not very well organized.

The JDHT CDs seem to be the best bet as far as content is concerned as most of them have the parts catalogs, full repair manual, electrical guides, and supplements. The downside is that they don't work with Vista.

Cheers
DD

 

I run my JDHT CD on an old laptop thats running windows 98. Handy in the garage or wherever

 

thanks for that, iwill go for the JDHT cd .cheers