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Mitsubishi Galant, Mirage, and Diamante, 1990-00 (Chilton's Total Car Care Repair Manual)

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I returned this book after reviewing it briefly. I have used other books from Chiltons that I have found useful. I am a picture/symbol oriented person when it comes to auto repairs. I am a DIY guy, not a mechanic, so I need to see how it looks in the manual. The schmatics/diagrams/pictures in this manual are 1.5" x 1.5". At this size they are totally useless. I cannot even compare this manual to the Chilton's I use to repair my '93 Plymouth minivan. It's like they were written by two diffent publishers.

I'm gonna be blunt and to the point: How the **** do they expect people to figure out how to do something on a specific car model when the book covers THREE different vehicles, with an average of THREE different Generations within the 1990-2000 year range?

For example, the Mirage is split up into three different generations in this 10 year span. 3rd Generation (3G) is 1988-1992, 4G is 1993-1996 and 5G is 1997-2001. Also, with each generation, there are two different body styles, the sedan (95 Mirage=95 JDM Lancer, 97 Mirage=96 JDM Lancer, etc) and the coupe and hatchback (3G was hatch, same as Jap Mirage, 4G coupe is a JDM 4G hatch with body made into a coupe).

Also, would this cover the Dodge/Plymouth Colt and Eagle Summit cars imported by GM in 1993? Those have a rear wheel disc option not available on the Mirage. Does it also cover the 4-door Summit that uses the same body as the 4G Mirage? The answer is NO.

If you're serious about wrenching on a Mirage, head over to www.mirageforums.net. There, you'll find most anything about a Mirage, ranging from fixing things to body kits to tuning and performance info. A MUCH more informative resource than this book.

How can one book cover three different cars from yrs 90-00? I don't know! I would not recommend anyone to buy this book unless you already know alot about Mitsubishi Motors.

A nice, heavy, chock full o'pictures book. It's got a wide variety of useful diagrams covering just about every part of every model of the Galant, Diamante, and Mirage.......except for the one thing I was looking for! I don't know if they were in a hurry to publish this book (it was delayed MONTHS after the originally released date), or they just didn't bother to really look at the car. I tried to use this book to help me find my fuel pump, which they don't really have a picture of. Maybe it's just me. Maybe it's in there....somewhere. I also tried to use this book to figure out how to take my doors apart (to get to the speaker). It really may be worth buying this book just for the laughs you'll get when you try to decipher the language they used to describe the technique for disassembling the door panels. Hilarious. I figured that due to the huge sales of the Mirage, that it might have acually gotten some kind of favoritism in this book, but I was dissapointed. If you happen to own a Galant or Diamante, good for you. But then again....you probably just take your car to the shop anyway. On a good note, as far as I can tell, all of the specs for the cars are accurate and well organized. Did I mention the book was big?

If you don't already have a reasonable amount of auto mechanic experience under your belt, or have a friend who does, this book will probably not help you much. Some of the diagrams are sketchy ("Where on the engine is that? Does my car have one of those?") and the procedure descriptions are terse and assume you can work out the details for yourself. For example, they will say "remove the electrical connector" instead of "remove the electrical connector by doing ...". I've owned, had repair manuals for, and worked on three cars (including the mirage) and a motorcycle, but I still found the lack of detail made things take longer than they should. I would liken it to a cook book - if you already know how to cook, and can improvise a bit in the kitchen, a cook book is great, but if you've never cooked before maybe you should consider going out to eat.

I bought this book in order to fix my Mirage 1994. But the author of this book believes that you know how to make all the things and just tell you take appart, and installing is the reverse for the disasemble... really disapointing, not for help in any way... The common tasks that can be done by a do-it yourself ocassional mechanic never are explained well. I do not recommend this book to a serious person that want to adventure in the mechanics world...

Dam I should have bought a basic car book on how cars work or something like that, cause if you don't know a lot about cars this book is written in a different language. It's vague, confusing, and almost worthless. But if you want some kind of reference book you have no choice so buy it used.

If you don't already have a reasonable amount of auto mechanic experience under your belt, or have a friend who does, this book will probably not help you much. Some of the diagrams are sketchy ("Where on the engine is that? Does my car have one of those?") and the procedure descriptions are terse and assume you can work out the details for yourself. For example, they will say "position No. 1 cylinder at Top Dead Center", or "detach the connector" instead of "detach the connector by doing ...". I've owned, had repair manuals for, and worked on three cars (including the mirage) and a motorcycle, but I still found the lack of detail made things take longer than they should. I would liken it to a cook book - if you already know how to cook, and can improvise a bit in the kitchen, a cook book is great, but if you've never cooked before maybe you should consider going out to eat.

My Mitsubishi Technica engine dit'n apear in the book. At least not the Puerto Rico Technica version.