With a circulation of more than 1.2 million readers per month, Popular Mechanics magazine is among the most trusted names in hands-on technology. For decades, astute drivers have turned to the magazine's automotive experts for advice on keeping their cars running their best. Now the editors of Popular Mechanics show you how to maintain and repair your car like a professional - rght in your own garage. From replacing wiper blades and aiming headlights to more advanced projects like servicing your brakes, cleaning throttle bodies and replacing a slipping clutch, the book covers 80 common service procedures. Tasks are rated by level of difficulty and accompanied by illustrations of each procedure. Sidebars explain how the various systems of your car work, and provide valuable tips for helping your vehicle last longer, ride better, and provide improved safety, mile after mile
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Popular Mechanics Magazine was founded in 1902 and now has a circulation of more than 1.2 million readers per month. The magazine covers everything from DIY, to car mechanics and woodworking.
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27 of 28 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Sure, it's not for those who ALREADY know how...,
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This review is from: Popular Mechanics Complete Car Care Manual (Hardcover)
I agree that certain parts of the book are fairly basic, but how else do you expect to learn? I think this book is GREAT!! I'm a university student, with a strong interest in cars/trucks. My father was never big into automotive, so I never learned. This book is basically the "bible" of automotives for those looking to learn. It teaches everything from simple oil changes, to doing complex things such as servicing your electronic suspension, etc...I have ONLY good things to say about this book, and I disagree very much that it is too basic. If it's too basic for you, you ought to consider going into mechanics as a profession, cause you know a whole lot!! BUY THIS BOOK IF YOU HAVE THE LEAST INTEREST OF LEARNING HOW TO SERVICE/FIX/ENHANCE YOUR CAR!!!!
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2.0 out of 5 stars
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This review is from: Popular Mechanics Complete Car Care Manual (Paperback)
If you don't know anything about cars, read the Dummies book or use the web to get familiar with basic automotive systems: ignition, fuel/air mix delivery, motor, transmission, cooling, exhaust, suspension, electrical... maybe a few more I'm forgetting.
If you actually want to fix something on your car, buy the Hayne's or Chilton's manual for your make and model. Between learning how cars work and learning how to fix your car falls the shadow. This Popular Mechanics book amounts to a long list of what can go wrong with your car, with some too-general-to-be-applied repair instructions. There are a lot of "this should be somewhere around here, or possibly over there, or maybe your car doesn't have it" situations. If shop manuals didn't exist, this book would be useful. But they do exist, and they are not hard to follow, especially for the sort of repairs you'd undertake by yourself without training. This book wastes your time with cheesy lead-ins to every problem ("You're on your way home from the mother-in-law's on a snowy Thanksgiving night, when you hear a knock coming from the front-passenger side of the car...") and proceeds to give instruction about as useful as the advice of a mechanically inclined friend who has not seen the problem. Not a completely useless book. Just not necessary.
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This review is from: Popular Mechanics Complete Car Care Manual (Paperback)
This book has some of what my husband already knows in it but he enjoys reading it anyway. He's found it to be pretty informative.
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