Originally Posted by
IdahoMtnSpyder
Links to products which are, or can be construed as, solicitations for purchase are banned except for those connected to paying sponsors of the site. Links inside posts that are provided as information to help others are OK, such as the one above for the manuals site.
Links to documents which can be legitimately downloaded are allowed. As far as the service manuals BRP has not made them available for purchase other than printed versions ordered through a dealer. The manuals that can be purchased online are of dubious legitimacy. As I see it the suppliers are so well hidden in the dark corners of the Internet that BRP can't reach them, or BRP has determined it's not financially worth it to take down the supplier. He provides a service that probably wouldn't be worth it for BRP to provide. My suspicion is that someone in the printing company, in China I think, probably diverts the BRP supplied PDF to the dark web supplier. China is notorious for counterfeiting. The last time I looked, Helms, the producer of many vehicle service manuals, no longer offers an electronic version of any vehicle manual.
Another thing to be aware of as you search for parts. BRP documentation is not 100% consistent in the use of nomenclature. You will find ample opportunity to exercise ingenuity in figuring out how to search for some parts. For example, the microswitch that operates the light in the frunk of S and L models is not called a microswitch. I don't remember what it's called. Also, the part names in the parts list aren't always the same as in the text of the service or owner's manuals.