I'm looking for a good service manual for a 2004 S80. I generally buy factory service manuals for all my vehicles off ebay, but have only found electronic copies for the S80 (I'm OK with that). Everyone claims the other guy's are crap. Anyone out there have recommendations regarding a really good service manual for the S80?

 

Never mind. I scored a copy of VADIS last night. It's pretty much exactly what I was looking for and more.

 

How did u get the copy of VADIS. i always needed one of those. you think you could send it over?

 

Bought it off ebay for $19.99. You are actually not buying VADIS, but a file containing the instructions for downloading VADIS from another site and the semi-complicated installation on your computer. It is a non-current version of VADIS that covers pretty much all Volvos from 1991 to 2005. VADIS is in the form of a DVD iso file that you run from a virtual DVD drive that you set up on your hard drive (nice because it runs a lot faster than if you ran it on a real DVD drive). One nice thing about VADIS is the built in "print subject" mechanism. You can easily print the instructions for any repair procedure and carry it out to your garage.

Anyway, I'm not sure if it's 100% legit to be downloading VADIS all over the internet. Because of that, I'm not getting involved beyond this point and will not distribute it myself. Besides, it's a big download at 4.19GB. A few people have claimed problems with the the install, but my installation went very well.

You may be able to figure it all out for free, but I gave the enterprising young man on ebay his $20 and now have a VERY good service manual for a very reasonable price. Here's a link to his ebay listing.

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