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There's been a little bit of interest for owners manual for the R33. To save people the $46 or whatever, I am prepared to scan the 150+ pages and save into PDF format for people to download.

I want to get an expression of interest so I know I'm not wasting my time doing it. Who would be interested?

-MearCat

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I'm not so sure the people who spent a lot of time and money transalating and printing the manual would appreciate that.

Haven't we heard about copyright?

You can afford a $20k car, surely you can afford $40 -$50 for a manual.:cool:

Alan - I'm interested... you can email it to me direct, you have my addy :cool: and regardless of what people say, your not wasting your time doing it... heaps of people will want it :)

as for the copyright thing, bah! we all OWN R33's it's just the original manual was jap, and we can't read that! on with the engrish i say!

I personally can't stand people that charge $100+ for a book that comes with a car anyway...

..... anyone wanna buy a Hyundai Sonata manual ? only $300 + GST! Bargain!......

There is supposed to be a owners manual that comes with every grey import. Compliancers should have given included a copy. So if you don't have the manual, it's your right to have a copy of it, for safety reasons of course. Manual shows you how to use a seat belt, child restraint, etc.

I don't see a problem with making a copy of the manual, for one thing it isn't the most detailed of documents(ie. a lot of "...detailed later in this section" but it isn't) and second they say it is a copy of the japanese manual but make no reference to the original copyright owner.

I'm sure if people think the manual is usable then they will buy it.

didn't you guys get the japanese owner manual with your car?

yeah i would be interested to ... i got the jap manual which looks like its never been opened... but whats the point if u can't read jap? about the copyright ... well i would pay to have it ... either in digital or paper format ... so yeah pm me when u got it done ... i would also be interested in the workshop manual to ... why don't they advertise it?? i'd buy it if i can find it ...

Originally posted by MearCat

It's the OWNERS manual, not the workshop manual. I think the WORKSHOP manual is something up around $400.

The JPNZ Workshop Manual is around $150.
There's no mention of Copyright in the entire manual either.
My understanding is that copyright exists by virtue of the fact that the document exists. There does not need to be any explicit statement on the document to say it is copyright.

no more on this - this is a copyright violation and wont be tolerated on SAU.

If you guys want to discuss this with me further - [email protected] is the way to go.

Thanks!

Christian

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