All About Your Car [Illustrated] [Paperback]

David Nigel Kline (Author), Jamie Robertson (Author)

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Review

Finally: an auto maintenance guide which provides a non-technical, consumer oriented clue to how each car system operates and interacts, and what this means to basic maintenance procedures! Chapters pack in basic information and tips on how to find a mechanic or do it yourself. The take-out dashboard troubleshooting guide will prove particularly inviting. -- Midwest Book Review

Product Details

• Paperback: 278 pages
• Publisher: Dimi Pr; 1st edition (January 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0931625327
• ISBN-13: 978-0931625329
• Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.3 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,508,839 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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24 of 27 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars book contains many factual errors, December 4, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: All About Your Car (Paperback)

There should be a choice "zero stars." I expected this to be a simple book. What I did not expect is many factual errors. A "D" size flashlight battery is not 9 volts, but rather 1.5 volts just like an "AAA" cell. Engine capacity is not "the volume of the piston chambers." A conceptual method to determine the engine capacity is to remove a spark plug, rotate the engine to bottom dead center on that cylinder, fill the cylinder with water, turn the engine to top dead center and measure the volume of water that came out of the spark plug hole. Multiply this volume by the number of cylinders and you have the engine capacity. Of course you wouldn't actually want to do this procedure, but this is an easily understood mind experiment that correctly gets the concept of displacement across to the reader. Power is not "potential motion" but rather a measure of how fast work is performed. A tappet is not a lever. There is no excuse for these errors; they are not the result of simplification.

3 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Must have for any car owner, February 5, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: All About Your Car (Paperback)

I have read this from cover to cover and am so amazed at how Mr. Robertson has made it a dream instead of a nightmare to own a car. I recommend anyone who owns a car, to buy this book.