There are some great official sites where you can find just about any information you’d need for most models from the ‘90’s through today.

TOPIx – which is linked at the bottom of the landroverusa.com site and describes itself as:

TOPIx provides fast, online access to everything you need to enable you to deliver vehicle service and repair for Jaguar Land Rover customers.

The TOPIx site is great, it’s where you can find both owners manuals & service/repair info.  The owners manuals are free and don’t require registration.  The service/repair pages do require both registration and a subscription to the site.  Anyone can get a subscription and the prices vary depending on the info you want, how many models (i.e. all Land Rovers, a single model all years or a single model for one year), and how long you want access for(1 hour, day, week, month or year).  To give you an example, if you wanted to get the info for a 2008 Range Rover for 1 day, it’s $14, while all years for the New Range Rover for a day would be $23.  One more example, all models & years for a day is $46.

It can really be worth the money when you need some info you just can’t find anywhere else.  Like all the other sites, there’s not much thought put into the navigation design.  After selecting the model & year, you have to find the link that says Owner on the far right then find the link that says Owners Handbooks on the far left.  Then you’re stuck viewing a small frame on the page with the actual PDF content – lots of scrolling.  If you do select there “Maximise” icon, it just opens the PDF full screen, which is annoying in another way.

I would just assume with Land Rover sending people here directly from the home page for handbooks, it may make more sense to make the handbooks/Owners section front & center

Land Rover Owner Information

This is the site I’ve always used for Owners manuals and I think it is actually fewer clicks to the information you want when compared to TOPIx.  I’m not sure why Land Rover doesn’t link to this site directly off the home page, it’s just an easier site to navigate, but it doesn’t have service/repair info.

Here too you can find all sort of documents – the 2011 Range Rover Owners Handbook does reference this site, suggest for downloading the Land Rover Off-Road Driving handbook.

Owner Information Webshop

Here’s where you can buy actual hard copy printed materials – lost handbooks, wiring diagrams, etc…  As an example the full literature pack for a 2010 Range Rover is about $116.  This site is another one with an odd user experience – after registering, you just stare at a page that says “You’ve registered”, you have to find a small link in the corner to get you back to the content page, a redirect or larger, more obvious link couldn’t hurt.

All three sites are oddly designed with pop-ups and frames; which I assume is for some kind of I.P. protection, but with a little time, everything is downloadable, so they should just give us the option of downloading the entire PDF directly instead of all the clicking and waiting for each individual chapter.  On more then one occasion, I’ve had to close the window and start the process again because it just wouldn’t load a section, it gets old fast.

And even though the user interface/experience was a complete & terrible afterthought, I do thank them for putting all this info online.  Now why not put a small amount of effort into it and give us direct downloads.  Go check out how Mercedes-Benz does it and you’ll see how good & easy it could be.