Service Manual

[ChumpusRex]

I was planning to do a little work on an IS300h, so I wanted to see how to take some trim and panels off.

I went to the lexus tech site and accessed the service manual, but the design of the site appears to have changed. I was unable to print or download, or otherwise save a copy of the relevant page of the service manual.

For the 2IS manual, I have had no problem of accessing a specific manual page and then saving it or printing it out, but I couldn't do this with the 3IS manual. If I tried to save it, it would just save blank, and if I tried to print it, it would only print part of the page, and most of the information wouldn't print.

Am I doing something wrong, or is this a new plan to ensure that people can't just pay one subscription fee and keep a copy of the page for posterity?

[C Mclean]

Did you try a screenshot of the page ?

[ChumpusRex]

That's what I ended up doing. Saving a bunch of screenshots.

They've really made the IS300h manual difficult. Because instead of putting full instructions on each key topic, like the 2IS manual does, it just says "remove flange grobble - see chapter x" and then you have to screenshot a whole different page.

If I was cynical I'd say they want to stop people keeping copies of pages, so that they have to subscribe every time they need to look something up.

[ColinBarber]

They ARE trying to stop people pulling local copies. Under the T&Cs you don't have the legal right to full time access to the information, only with a valid in-life subscription.

As a point of reference, and in no way suggesting Toyota's copyright should be broken using such methods, taking screenshots isn't the best way if the pages are long as you need to take multiple images, scrolling in-between, and the resulting images are large and not searchable.

Most browsers has a save-as feature but typically don't work very well. Safari seems the best here because the save-as creates a full archive of all the page components so it views perfectly again, but you need to be a Mac user.

[Steve44]

Try a free software tool like duckcapture which allows you to screenshot an entire webpage and save it as a jpeg.

http://www.ducklink.com/p/free-screen-capture-tool/