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DirFX - The Complete Idiot's Guide to Car Care and Repair Illustrated

	List Price: $18.95 Our Price: $10.00 Your Save: $ 8.95 ( 47% ) Availability: N/A Manufacturer: Alpha
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Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 629.2872 EAN: 9780028644325 ISBN: 0028644328 Label: Alpha Manufacturer: Alpha Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 224 Publication Date: 2002-12-10 Publisher: Alpha Studio: Alpha
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Spotlight customer reviews: Customer Rating: Summary: Knowledge Comment: For those who are not naturally Mechanically Inclined , this book is Very useful. Customer Rating: Summary: OK Comment: Some good pointers in the book, but not as well organized as it might be. Customer Rating: Summary: An excellent general-interest guide. Comment: Dan Ramsey's CAR CARE AND REPAIR ILLUSTRATED (0028644328, $18.95) is for any newcomer to car repair and care - the perfect gift for the teen: it provides easy checks to maintain performance, step-by-step instructions for common auto repairs, advice on preventative maintenance and more. An excellent general-interest guide. Diane C. Donovan California Bookwatch Customer Rating: Summary: Are you certain you are a complete idiot ? Comment: The only fault I can find with this book is the misleading title. I thought I had purchased "The IDIOT'S COMPLETE Guide to Car Care and Repair" and in fact had purchased " The COMPLETE IDIOT'S Guide to Car Care and Repair". This is a book for someone who has never changed his/her own tire, never looked under the car or in the hood, and couldn't tell the difference between the radiator reservoir and the window-washer reservoir. I needed a book that would guide me to do repairs with confidence, this book really just skims the subject and is not a very good step-by-step manual for anyone other than a professional mechanic, who wouldn't need it to start with. I do not recommend this book for a person who is interested in getting dirty, and gave it 1 star as 0 wasn't available. To sum it up, for an at-home do-it-yourself-mechanic who needs to start somewhere, this is not the one and for those, this book is more a "bandaid" when a "tourniquet" is needed. Customer Rating: Summary: Without value Comment: There is less information in this book than is in my owner's manual. A quick look is quite misleading as there are lots of pictures of detail. However, there is no text or instruction to go with it. For example, there is a nice detailed picture of a drum break assembly, but the text that goes with it says "Drum brakes are replaced in a similar way. Only the parts are diffent [from a disc break]". The first 130+ pages cover what is in the owner's manual, but in less detail, and the rest mentions other repairs and directs the reader to the shop manual. Don't bother. Read the owner's manual if you want to do routine stuff (oil change, windshield wipers, etc), there is much more information there. If you want to do more, get a shop manual such as Chiltons to Haynes (I've found that the actual shop manual from the manufacturer assumes ownership of specific tools designed for that car). More Reviews

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