All, I reached out to the individual who had set up the mediafire account. Unfortunately, it was a paid subscription of which this forum was the only reason he had set the account up. He is no longer a member and has decided not to renew. I am looking at options to obtain the files and post - the biggest hurdle being the pdf size limitation. In the interim, recommend checking out Gus's website to see if you can access files you may need

JagRepair.com - Jaguar Repair Information Resource

 

Many thanks for doing that. Can we assume he still has the original pdfs and might transfer a copy over to someone else?
I have set up a free-to-use MediaFile account, which has 10Gb of free storage. paying for the service would add 20Gb. It may have enough capacity to take some or even all of the pdfs that we collectively need. I'd be happy to use that account if the Forum thought it would help.
I have had a look at the Jaguar Rep[air Forum. It contains loads of interesting stuff, so thank you for the link. However, it does not have any of the owners' documents that I need that would come with the car.

 

I can ask and if so will advise so we can move forward

 

I'd be willing to pay to support the site if it meant we could have some good manuals and stuff. Maybe offer a subscription service where supporters get a "supporter" tag or something next to user name?

 

nice thought - but we don't own the forum so not sure how that would work as they also own many of the other major brand forums. I have asked about increasing the file size limitation to allow direct posting of the pdf's. We shall see what they say

 

You could maybe give archive.org achance too.

Would not need to play with subscriptions of some random filesharing site.

And anyone can backup everything and re-share later if needed.

Like this: https://archive.org/download/jaguar-...0-151-20140416

And even this, which after some few hours will contain all previously existed files from random files sharing service:
Jaguar XK8 XKR (X100) Vehicle Literature Packs (PDF) 1996-2006 UK and USA

 

is GG gone?

 

unfortunately yes, left the forum in April of this year. I do keep in touch with him and he is doing well

 

Hi fgirard. I am also quite new to the forum, and have passed 10 posts too. Sadly the XK8/XKR documents are not currently available, but we are trying to get further copies and then post them here. This may take some time.

 

Thank you kindly Ewan. I was able to locate manuals for my wife's 2000 XKR at the url below. You'll need to copy and past this link into your browser. Best wishes...fg

https://ia801403.us.archive.org/33/i...002%201400.pdf

 

Many thanks fgirard, that is incredibly helpful of you. I have managed to access the documents I need. Yours, Ewan.,

 

New member here. I just purchased a 2006 XK8 with 84k miles and is in ok shape. I really need manuals because I don't know how to work a lot of the buttons on the dash.

 

looking for digital owners manual for 97 xk8
mediafire says no longer there
did I hit a wrong button? Have they been moved?

 

@engravosaurus the mediafire account was a former members who let it expire when he left. Check out Gus's site Jag Repair at JagRepair.com - Jaguar Repair Information Resource

 

Jaguar XK8 Drivers Handbook JJM 10 02 14/72 (from MY 1997 EU Scandinavia Car) : Jaguar cars Limited : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

and here some more for '97
XK8 owners manual.pdf (9.01 MB) - User's manuals - English (EN)

And here for every other X100: https://archive.org/details/jaguar-x...cle-literature

 

thank you
went there, cool site, fun read
but having trouble finding manuals on the site

 

Which one?

Archive? Scroll down and on right click "SHOW ALL"

and you get this kind of list:

On mobile device you must start scrolling from very very bottom of the screen, other ways you you just scroll default document. Computer view is better.

On Jag-Club.net you scroll down and you will see this list:


not too hard?

 

thank you

 

Hi Been trying to get Manuals for my XKR 2000 year RHD model, but everytime I follow any of the links MediaFile tells me the data no longer exists. I see most of the posts on this site are 10 or 20 years old. Is there any other access point for manuals? I have no litrerature for my car and have been flying blind. Grateful for all the help this wonderful site gives

 

No longer on mediafire