I posted links to two sites that had the service manuals and parts manual for the European s2 on the old Lotus Forum and then Lotus contacted the people and made them take them off of their sites.
And all I was doing was trying to help a guy find a part for the key and ignition on an Esprit. He contacted his dealer and they were unable to help him. I thought if he looked at the Elise ones, he could tell if they were similar.
I didnt realize that Lotus UK sells the service and parts manuals for a couple hundred bucks...oops...I printed it out and it is over 400 pages and half of it has to do with all of the UK Rover engine mechanical stuff. You would think they would want to publish the parts manuals for free. This way we could tell the dealer exactly what we needed, since most of us know more about cars that the average person and it would save the dealerships the hassle fo having to look up part numbers when we went in to order them.
I bought a Mercury Cougar a few years ago and they even had a PDF file of the owners manual right on their website that you could download, along with those of other Ford and Mercury cars, so I dont see what the hassle is.