After a happy few hours fitting bling to my V2.... https://twitter.com/manicguitarist/status/1250866370235031553 A would have shaved a couple of hours off if I’d had a workshop manual. Every other bike I’ve owned I’ve either been able to buy or get for free the official workshop manual. Why can’t I buy one for my V2? Just simple things like torque settings for wheels & calipers?! I’m not taking my bike to a dealer for the 3 sets of tyres a year I’ll chew through!
Would love to get one myself as well. coming from KTM where they wrote down the torque numbers for every single screw on the bike with thorough walkthroughs of almost everything, Ducati is taking the piss with telling me to leave my bike to the dealer to adjust my own chain.
I know what you mean, I had to figure out how to take the fairings off as it’s slightly different to the v4, different infills etc. However most chassis related jobs I think you’ll be safe with a 899/959 (apart from the obvious SSA wheel nuts etc) as the chassis is pretty much the same
I have a downloaded copy of the 959 one If you want it - lots of it will be the same. Would be easier to compare which parts are carried over if they would release the parts catalog!
Do we have one for the V4 as well? Should be identical numbers for rear sprocket, rear nut, chain tension screws etc.
Here is a link to the V4S workshop manual. It is in compressed zip file format as it is a large file from memory so you will need to unzip after downloading. https://www.dropbox.com/s/dk92yjnbbah0i5y/V4S MANUAL-20190209T232713Z-001.zip?dl=0
It’s not the same as the V4, different swing arm etc, it’s the same swing arm as the 1299 although all the big hub wheels are 230nm I think
I don’t understand why Ducati don’t sell them. I paid £60 in 1998 for a workshop manual for my R1. The lack of manual won’t make us go to dealer for everything, it just makes it harder for us.
All manuals from 2017 onwards (at least up until 2020, when I last checked) come on an encrypted USB drive, that you can purchase from a dealer. They can only be read, not copied and can only be updated by a dealer. Additionally, there are hyperlinks to supplementary pages, that can only be accessed if the drive is connected using a dealer's workstation and in conjunction with a known IP address, so it's pretty sewn up from their end. Not a biggy, but nowhere near as easy to access as it once was. The pendrive is over £200 but does contain most if not all the current range of bikes, when I last checked.
If this were the case then I would have happily paid £200 for it. However, at least for the V2 and other more recent models, it is only available online via the Ducati portal - which isn't available to mere mortals. Either that or 2 different Ducati dealerships in the UK have been lying to me when they refused / claimed it wasn't available to sell.
The pendrive I purchased from MR in 2018 had not had the V2 added to it at that time. I will be going down to MR at some point, so I will ask them to update it for me. If it transpires there is subsequently some V2 documentation on it, I will see if there is way to 'extract it' for you. TBH the architecture of the V2 is not that different from the 959 (at least mechanically) with obvious differences being the attachment of the bodywork, exhaust, peripheral sub-assemblies etc.
