Shop manuals

[ericrernst]

Anyone know where to get 2004 shop manuals?

Thanks,

[efusco]

Someone was selling pirated copies on Ebay for ~$10-20 on a CD or DVD.

If you want hard copies you can go to the parts dept. at your local Toyota dealership....be ready to shell out some cash though. It's 3 volumes at $160/volume!!! No wonder people buy pirated stuff.

[htmlspinnr]

Or download your own at techinfo.toyota.com for $10/day - much cheaper than the paper version.

If you can't find it "all", after paying the $10/day, buy the pirated version and you'll have "paid the license", plus you'll probably have the complete deal - still less than the paper version.

-Rick

[efusco]

Posted to your question on Priusonline too.... Here's the pirated CD of the manual

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAP...item=2457737082

[DaveG]

I picked up a set there because Toyota doesn't offer access to the techinfo site if you don't live in the US - they really didn't leave me much option.

That said, it's worth every penny - a truely fascinating read. There's stuff in there that any techy could appreciate. Every connector, wire, pin is labeled and explained.

Great stuff.

[redbarnclock]

Thanks for the tip about ebay just bought 2 one for me and a friend.

[ericrernst]

Many thanks. Great help!

[FredWB]

It appears that the ebay seller is not offering the cd's anymore. Anyone care to sell a copy? Thanks

[coondognd]

Hey all,
I got sick of the endless clicking on toyota.techinfo.com, so I tried to buck the system a bit. I wrote a script which tried to download everything for the 2004 Prius at once.

I didn't get as far as I had hoped (I couldn't get past their "cookie" logic, for the other web geeks out there), and I ran out of time (I only had one evening to do it), but I did manage to get a complete list of the URLs for all their independent PDF documents.

Just sign up for the techinfo site (sorry, you still have to pay them the $10), then open a new web browser and go to my site here:
http://www.kevincooney.com/projects/prius/output.html

You can right-click on each link and select "Save Target As..." Still tons of clicking (took me about an hour to get all I wanted), but about a third less than doing it through the techinfo site directly. I'd also suggest making a lot of new folders, because they have a tendency to re-use file names, so you'll end of overwriting files if you try to save them all to the same folder.

Hope that helps (especially if you can't find the CD on eBay)!

Kevin

P.S. Web Geeks: If anyone out there knows how to work with session cookies and wget (or the Perl LWP::Simple module), let me know. I might be able to finish my script to automate the download from techinfo.
P.P.S. For any concerned about legality, as far as I know this is perfectly legal. You're still paying for they're content, and I'm not making anything off it.

[JJay]

There is a utility called "curl" (I think for capture URL), normally used on Linux systems, but also exists on Windows.

It is a utility for getting files from remote servers (FTP, HTTP, and others).

You have the URLs listed on Kevin's web site; using those, batch files in the windows envoronment may be written to save the files to your local system like this:

curl "http://(your URL goes here)" > (local file name goes here)

On this cookie-based system, I think you would still have to run it on a system which is already logged in with username and password, but I've never tried it on a secure system.

Good luck!