Customer Reviews

Jeep Liberty, 2002-04 (Chilton's Total Car Care Repair Manual)

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Thin both in dimension and information.

One example is the parking brake - there's a sentence about replacing the shoes, but no information about testing or adjusting them, or if they're self-adjusting.

A Haynes book may have been a better choice, but it has been my experience that it's often good to have both Chilton and Haynes books as one may miss something that the other has good coverage of, and vice-versa.

This applies to every vehicle, not just the Liberty.
If you want a good manual spend the extra money and go right to the source, the factory authorized service manual.
Even though they are quite a bit more expensive just one simple repair you perform yourself will pay for the book. Half the pages in Chiltons and Haynes tell you to take the car to the dealer, that the repair is too complicated for the do it yourselfer whereas the factory service manuals give step by step instructions for every part of the vehicle and are written in simple terms.

Wanted to know where to find the oil sending sensor, a simple fix, and this book makes no mention of it, anywhere.

I picked Chiltons up with the Haynes Manual. Unless you get a shop manual, no one manual covers everything. They sometimes offer slightly different ways of doing things. Chilton seems fine.

After reviewing the info in the book we took the jeep to a mechanic. The book served its purpose. We were not qualified to do the work. We did learn that and more.