As far as I know there is no legitimate outlet from which to purchase digital copies of these manuals. LS has them, dealers have them, but they aren't in anybody's inventory list as an item for sale (again, that I know of). It seems that if you want to obtain them from an "official" source, you're at the dealers' mercy to:
1. Acknowledge that they exist, and
2. Provide you a copy.
I don't know how much the ones I have would help. They're for XR series but I imagine they are pretty similar. Shoot me a PM if you need any further help.
I haven't followed it recently but there was a big fight going on called 'Right to Repair'.
Seems John Deere felt that even though you may have paid 200 - 300 hundred thousand dollars for your tractor/combine, whatever, that when it broke, the only people that were allowed to work on it was John Deere.
So, you're out in the field, your expensive, shiny new John Deere takes a dump and the stealer is like, "I'll get there when I can."
And there is no way on God's Earth you can break through their codes. It just ain't gonna happen. Not unless you've got a Cray Super-Computer.
Generic Motors is partnering in that concept. Figures.
They feel like they own the technology even though you may have paid hundreds of thousands of dollars for the tractor, Deere feels like they can withhold the technology required to get into it and repair it.
Only they can. And they can charge you whatever they want. And fix it when they're in the mood.
And the last I checked, it was holding up in the Court system. Hacks in black.
My buddy has to pay thousands of dollars each year in order keep his Snap On Zeus updated with all the codes, etc, required to worked on all the cars today.
I guess access to actual Repair manuals and downloads is a little tougher today than it was back in the day when we could run out an buy a Chilton's or a Motor's Manual.
Like I said, I haven't followed it in a year or so. Maybe it's changed.
I'm gonna run right out and buy something green and yellow.
Count on it.
Reminds me of what I found in my tissue this morning anyway
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John Deere Just Cost Farmers Their Right to Repair | WIRED
