Woodall's RV Owner's Handbook: The Complete, Illustrated Guide to Preventative Maintenance & Repairs [Paperback]

Woodall Publications Corp. (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 1, 1999

Woodall's has enjoyed a long history of providing the best in directories, guides and handbooks geared toward the needs of RVers, campers and tenters across North America. The RV Owner's Handbook is a complete, illustrated guide to preventive maintenance and repairs. This newly revised edition covers RV issues such as towing with a motorhome, winterizing your RV, holding tank systems, heating systems, water pumps, trailer towing, spring shakedown, water systems and much more.

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Woodall's has enjoyed a long history of providing the best in directories, guides and handbooks geared toward the needs of RVers, campers and tenters across North America. The RV Owner's Handbook is a complete, illustrated guide to preventive maintenance and repairs. This newly revised edition covers RV issues such as towing with a motorhome, winterizing your RV, holding tank systems, heating systems, water pumps, trailer towing, spring shakedown, water systems and much more. (8 x 10 3/4, charts, b&w photos, detailed illustrations)

Product Details

• Paperback: 250 pages
• Publisher: Woodall Publications Corp.; First edition (December 1, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0762707062
• ISBN-13: 978-0762707065
• Product Dimensions: 10.8 x 8.1 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #410,019 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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20 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good general info, May 13, 2001

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Dr. L.Paul Bedard (Quebec, Canada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Woodall's RV Owner's Handbook: The Complete, Illustrated Guide to Preventative Maintenance & Repairs (Paperback)

The book offer great review of basic and generic RV systems. Now I have a much better understanding of propane, electrical, and water system, etc. It offers all the basic information to do your repairs. Provided a minimal general mechanic knowledge the book does the job. The only shadow is the number of sketch and plans is a bit low and information is not specific to any RV model. It is a general book, so I do not think we should expect such detail for each vehicule model. It does not offer step by step description of repairs, so you have to know a bit. On the other hand I will keep the book in my RV for all repair. This is a recommended book for every RV owner book. It could be quite useful to fully understand what the RV repairman had done/is doing/will do to your vehicule.

18 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars You're not an idiot, but you're no RV Mastermind, get this., July 23, 2002

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R. Harris "Full of it" (USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Woodall's RV Owner's Handbook: The Complete, Illustrated Guide to Preventative Maintenance & Repairs (Paperback)

I was surprised. Great illustrations, in-depth enough to satisfy my curiosity, but not to the engineering level. If you have an I.Q. over 100, skip the Idiots guide and just buy this book for it covers the basics in one chapter and the real "guts" in the other chapter. Everything is covered from solar power to rubber roofs to checklists and notes areas. It's a book you work with and in as well as from. Wiring diagrams, suggested manufacturers, and even mathmatical formulas will help the novice gain a solid understanding of the RV as a whole.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Is There an Editor in the House?, August 29, 2004

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David A. Lockhart (Houston, TX) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Woodall's RV Owner's Handbook: The Complete, Illustrated Guide to Preventative Maintenance & Repairs (Paperback)

Overwritten, confusing, and sloppily edited. Full of misspellings, omitted or duplicated words. RV owners are often confronted with an incomplete, generic owner's manual, which contradicts the separate component manuals to which it refers the owner. I was hoping this book would serve as a quick-start introduction to understanding and maintaining my diesel pusher motorhome, and make it easier to wade through these manuals. No such luck. Yes, the information is there, but the presentation is so amateurish that the book loses credibility. If you don't believe me, read the first sentence of the chapter on RV electrical systems. It's rare that an author can be redundant and contradictory at the same time, but Mr. Bunzer achieved it. I received this book as a gift, and it's still annoying.