Service Box Access
Posted: Mon May 04, 2020 11:24 am
There is a cheapish solution to the problem of access to Service box.
Like many of you I rely on the parts info to identify parts such as NOS on Ebay and was mightily miffed when the bean counters at PSA locked us out. I mean we only want the bit about XM parts I never had access to repair procedures and times etc. Now I went digging into my ancient CD box to find a cd rom of the Service Box circa 2013 era. I bought it before I used the web access to Service Box and had it installed on another long gone computer. Well I found it and hey presto Service Box on my PC. It's a real pain to load and takes a minute to start as the original system is made for Win XP. However on the disk after you winkle out the files using Winzip which I found out isn't free, there is a Windows Virtual program that it runs in. It took me two days to get it to work; files not found and various other computer speak things but it is there.
Ebay seller cdgcdg_3 seems to have it, but not UK based. £15 seems cheap enough. First part you buy using info off it will justify it's purchase. All I can say it's lovely to be able to browse XM part number at my leisure once again even if it takes a minute to load up. Plus it's got all the other cars from 1983 if you happen to own one of them.
Ian
Like many of you I rely on the parts info to identify parts such as NOS on Ebay and was mightily miffed when the bean counters at PSA locked us out. I mean we only want the bit about XM parts I never had access to repair procedures and times etc. Now I went digging into my ancient CD box to find a cd rom of the Service Box circa 2013 era. I bought it before I used the web access to Service Box and had it installed on another long gone computer. Well I found it and hey presto Service Box on my PC. It's a real pain to load and takes a minute to start as the original system is made for Win XP. However on the disk after you winkle out the files using Winzip which I found out isn't free, there is a Windows Virtual program that it runs in. It took me two days to get it to work; files not found and various other computer speak things but it is there.
Ebay seller cdgcdg_3 seems to have it, but not UK based. £15 seems cheap enough. First part you buy using info off it will justify it's purchase. All I can say it's lovely to be able to browse XM part number at my leisure once again even if it takes a minute to load up. Plus it's got all the other cars from 1983 if you happen to own one of them.
Ian