Volvo: Coupes/Sedans/Wagons 1970-89 (Chilton's Total Car Care Repair Manual) (Paperback)

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Product Description

The Total Car Care series continues to lead all other do-it-yourself automotive repair manuals. This series offers do-it-yourselfers of all levels TOTAL maintenance, service and repair information in an easy-to-use format. Each manual covers all makes format. Each manual covers all makes and models, unless otherwise indicated. :Based on actual teardowns :Simple step-by-step procedures for engine overhaul, chassis electrical drive train, suspension, steering and more :Trouble codes :Electronic engine controls

Product Details

• Paperback: 520 pages
• Publisher: Haynes Manuals, Inc.; 1 edition (February 25, 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0801987865
• ISBN-13: 978-0801987861
• Product Dimensions: 11 x 8.2 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 2.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #994,393 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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21 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars 19-year cover - too much, March 11, 2000

By A Customer

1970-1989 is 19 years. You may probably think that Volvo was not developing new cars during this period. Wrong! An average manual covers about 7 years. Thus you just get almost 3 times less information for the same price. Apart of that you will be searching among all this features and years for your particular model. However, I did not find anything better for my 89 740GLE:(. For earlier models, Haynes is probably better.

16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Subject matter too broad to cover correctly, January 15, 2000

By A Customer

I found this book to be very brief on particular subject matter. I suspect it is because the models and years are so broad. Also the paper is cheap leading to diagrams that are sometimes hard to read. I'm going to buy the Haynes and see how that is.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Chilton's Volvo-1970 to89, April 1, 2002

By	Thomas j. Spillers (Crestview, fl. United States) - See all my reviews

This book was disappointing in that it covers to wide a year span,and does not specify year that most changes occur or if there were changes. It is a book for designed to assist persons only making minimal repairs. The transmisson section does not give a breakdown or even include wiring for transmisson. The location or change of location for the overdrive unit,relay or selonoid as well as the wiring for it are not included. All in all it did not meet my needs or expectations.
I was not told that if the other book I ordered was not in stock it could take from 6 to 8 weeks to get. If I had been notified in a timely manner the book was unavailable I would have shopped elsewhere. Now I'm without a vehicle for a month to a month and a half. This could have been avoided had I been given the delay information in the E-Mail conformation of my order.

Thank you for at least reading my concerns. Hopefully this will help you in processing your orders with less disappoint and confusion.
Thomas J. Spillers