Customer Reviews

Nissan Sentra and 200SX, 1995-1999 (Haynes Manuals)

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I avg. about 25-30k miles per year on cars, so when I bought my Sentra 2nd hand (yes from the original owner) I knew I had to do some work on it. Even with a complete history record I didn't know exactly what needed to be done etc. This book has everything I've been looking for or asking about. Great book! Course my Sentra is the same color as the one on the back too. :)

I bought this book to help me diagnose and change the alternator. I expected to see many more steps in taking things apart, but was disappointed when I started working in the car.
There are numerous steps missing and several key pictures missing. Some of the pics are completely clueless on which part you are looking at. It should be great for an experienced person but then, it's pointless: if one is savvy enough he don't need the book.
Anyways, it's a great source of consult for a first timer. It'll save you serious bucks if you are the kinda of handyman.
All systems of the car are there, but don't expect great details.
Suggestions are made on many procedures, but there are lots of gaps on this topic too: one could use many alternatives instead of "take the pulley of the alterator off" (it's not needed : a new one comes with the pulley..)
The wiring diagrams are great. They helped me to clearly understand how the car ir wired and how the components interact.
My advice is: if you have nothing to start with, this one will do. Even though I give it 3 stars, because of the missing steps, it's worth its price.

Like all the other haynes manuals i have purchased this one did a decent job of giving recommendations for maintenance and repair work. However i always seem to find it lacking details where i need it most (basic repair tasks that seem to be identical between manuals), and having way more details for jobs that i don't care about (totaly engine overhauls, etc. ).

Pros:
- Affordable Help for repair work
- covers most repair topics you might care about
- I have purchased several manuals for cars i have owned and found them all to be helpfull.

Cons:
- Says it covers multiple varients of the same model, but often has diagrams for only one of them.
- Many of the more common repair tasks (brakes, oil change, body work, etc.. ) are heavily coppied between the vairous Haynes manuals for different models, so often lack spesific details that would be helpfull. You can usually overcome this with some common sense, but i have found several times wishing i new exactly where something was rather then them assuming i know where it is.
- Lacks discussion on common problems encountered during repairs. Ie, would be nice to have advice on what to try if your break rotors are rusted on, etc. .

this manual help me to repair my nissan, is very usefull to repair or mantain your automovile.
this was a good purchase.

The guide goes through many common problems and tells you how to fix them. Some mechanical knowledge is necessary to use this guide, but for the DIYer; it is a great resource.

With great expectation from this book that was all crumbled to pieces. Let me put it to you this way-if you really wanna learn how to fix your car you're better off going to school to be a mechanic. Why? Why do I think this book is not helpful? Because it is far too advanced to understand-unless you already know about cars and how to fix them (but then what would be the point of this book??.) Sure the car has good diagrams and 'good' explanations on some parts but heres the next question...WHAT?? This book pretty much expects for you to know about your car already like what and where a camshaft is, what a distributor looks like and every piece inside of it. For me-pretty much new at this-I have no idea what I'm doing and expected this to help when all this did was confused me even more.
Final thoughts-if you're new at this but wanna learn how to fix your nissan, go to school and become a mechanic. This will totally confuse the heck outta you if you have no experience whatsoever. However, for the intermediates and experts-this may be the book you've been waiting for.

The sale went very well. Communication was great, item was packed well, and was shipped very quickly. It arrived in exactly the condition that we expected. this was a very good experience.