Workshop manual ??

Thanks DCDucati,

I will keep on waiting...

My dealer told me yesterday they have a digital one, and I can have a copy for $25, but it has errors in it, and they expect a corrected one soon. They told me they'd let me know when they get the new one and I can come get that one on a flash drive for the same price.

I opted to wait for the corrected one. Hopefully soon.

Great !!!

Please keep us posted.

MacaveliMC said:

My dealer told me yesterday they have a digital one, and I can have a copy for $25, but it has errors in it, and they expect a corrected one soon. They told me they'd let me know when they get the new one and I can come get that one on a flash drive for the same price.

I opted to wait for the corrected one. Hopefully soon.

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Hey Mike,

Any update from your dealer? Did you get a copy of the service manual from them?

Chris.

Where the $#@& is our workshop manual??!! This is redicoulous.

INSANITY ive called 3 local dealers and 4 "ducati performance" shops with no luck....


can someone please just quickly type up a 500 page detailed manual.... with pictures lol

chrissa said:

Hey Mike,

Any update from your dealer? Did you get a copy of the service manual from them?

Chris.

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Sorry Chrissa, didn't see this until just now. I'll give my dealer a call again and see if they finally got an updated manual.

Big UP, any news guys on this service manual issue?
My DS said he doesn't have it :-s
Thx in advance for keeping us posted!

Went to my dealer in The Netherlands yesterday and was told their mechanics get their info via a direct internet link at Ducati...and that the workshop manual will probably come out on usb stick for around €300,-....

I guess once it's out, we'll find it on the www.

I'd think it would be priced around where ducati sells it's manuals on cd around $75 US.

That said it's pretty inexcusable that over a year on and ducati still can't get a manual out to owners.

BOO1199R said:

Went to my dealer in The Netherlands yesterday and was told their mechanics get their info via a direct internet link at Ducati...and that the workshop manual will probably come out on usb stick for around €300,-....

I guess once it's out, we'll find it on the www.

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boo is right, read this thread: Ducati USB Service Manuals - Ducati.ms - The Ultimate Ducati Forum

It sounds like they're only selling the manuals by model years, and cd manuals won't be available anymore, the 2012-13 usb is supposed to have all models, I asked if it includes the pani. It's pricey at $570 but not a bad deal if it has the manuals for all bikes in a given year.

BOO1199R said:

Went to my dealer in The Netherlands yesterday and was told their mechanics get their info via a direct internet link at Ducati...and that the workshop manual will probably come out on usb stick for around €300,-....

I guess once it's out, we'll find it on the www.

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zvez said:

boo is right, read this thread: Ducati USB Service Manuals - Ducati.ms - The Ultimate Ducati Forum

It sounds like they're only selling the manuals by model years, and cd manuals won't be available anymore, the 2012-13 usb is supposed to have all models, I asked if it includes the pani. It's pricey at $570 but not a bad deal if it has the manuals for all bikes in a given year.

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Quite a bargain, as I currently own all the 2012 Ducati models

Looks like our beloved Pani is included. Check page 28 of: http://store.proitalia.com/downloads/instructions/SVC-13-015_Attachment.pdf

Surely if it is a downloadable version if one person purchases it then it can be "lent" to a friend if you know what I mean?

Has anyone seen this yet? The tech at my dealer (no, my other dealer) said that they just got this and it had all 2010-2013 Ducati models. He also said they couldn't unlock it because Ducati didn't send them the unlock key! But, he said it will be for sale for about $400. This is just stupid, but may come in handy for the rear hub torque specs for the Diavel that I will never own.

I finally got back to pestering my dealer, and in their defense they've been super helpful, offering to sell me the digital copy for only $25 when they get it.

I called them back after waiting a couple months and this is the explanation I received:

The way Ducati is doing things now, is the manual (probably along with the manuals for all bikes? Not sure on this yet) is on a USB stick, and when the stick is plugged into the computer, it started up a sort of interactive shop manual that, as you can imagine, is probably super helpful to anyone working on a bike. So it's not just a PDF, it's an actual program that runs. They told me they've been trying for weeks to copy this USB stick for customers to use on their own, but they cannot get it to work. Something about there is always some file that gets corrupted or won't copy, and it ends up not working. They said they are still working on it and trying to find a solution because many customers are asking for it.

On another note, I received a call back a couple days after, and they told me that another company had put together a shop manual, and it's available on houstonsuperbikes.com for $19.99. Unfortunately it only claims to be for the base model as you can see in the models listed. On top of that I have no idea how good it is, but if anyone would like to purchase it and give us a heads up, I'm sure we'd all appreciate it.

In the meantime I'm really hoping that my dealer will come up with some way of getting us the USB stick program because it sounds awesome.

@MacaveliMC - Based on your post I went to the Houston Superbikes site and ordered an 1199 manual. You have to enter your year and model into the field for the manual on CD. I paid for the order last night and then today I received a cancellation notice with the following note:
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Your order has been updated.
Order Status: New

Hi Jeffrey,
We do not have the manual for the 1199 Panigale yet, we are unsure when
we would get them in, but you can always check with us periodically to
see if we have them. We are sorry for any inconvenience this may have
caused.

Thank you,
Houston Superbikes



Best Regards,
Houston Superbikes
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Bummer.

JeffD said:

@MacaveliMC - Based on your post I went to the Houston Superbikes site and ordered an 1199 manual. You have to enter your year and model into the field for the manual on CD. I paid for the order last night and then today I received a cancellation notice with the following note:
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Your order has been updated.
Order Status: New

Hi Jeffrey,
We do not have the manual for the 1199 Panigale yet, we are unsure when
we would get them in, but you can always check with us periodically to
see if we have them. We are sorry for any inconvenience this may have
caused.

Thank you,
Houston Superbikes



Best Regards,
Houston Superbikes
>>

Bummer.

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Wow, way to get our hopes up Houstonsuperbike.com I'll have to call my dealer back and let them know not to tell people this then.

I have the USB stick now. In order to access the workshop manuals, a program needs to be executed and this is probably how the info is copy protected.

Nevertheless, manual pages (e.g. specific procedures) can be "printed" to a PDF file and thus can be shared. I know someone ??? in the forum has a site where files have been placed for people to download. Let me know which "manual procedures" you need and I ´ll be happy to e-mail them to ??? so he can make them available to all.

xpercad said:

I have the USB stick now. In order to access the workshop manuals, a program needs to be executed and this is probably how the info is copy protected.

Nevertheless, manual pages (e.g. specific procedures) can be "printed" to a PDF file and thus can be shared. I know someone ??? in the forum has a site where files have been placed for people to download. Let me know which "manual procedures" you need and I ´ll be happy to e-mail them to ??? so he can make them available to all.

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how much was the usb?