VW Rabbit, Jetta (gas) '75'92 (Haynes Manuals) (Paperback)

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Total Car Care is the most complete, step-by-step automotive repair manual you'll ever use. All repair procedures are supported by detailed specifications, exploded views, and photographs. From the simplest repair procedure to the most complex, trust Chilton's Total Car Care to give you everything you need to do the job. Save time and money by doing it yourself, with the confidence only a Chilton Repair Manual can provide.

Product Details

• Paperback: 1 pages
• Publisher: Thomson Delmar Learning; 1 edition (January 15, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1563920611
• ISBN-13: 978-1563920615
• Product Dimensions: 11 x 8.5 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.3 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 2.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #263,992 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Good if you're already super-technical, May 12, 2004

By	J. Samuelsen (New York) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Assumes too much previous knowledge. Lacks basic description of what you're actually doing to the car, and why.

2.0 out of 5 stars Dangerously incomplete, February 11, 2006

By	Osorio Batres Silvia Rebeca "booknut" (Guatemala city Guatemala) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: VW Rabbit Diesel 1977 thru 1884 (Haynes Manuals) (Paperback)

This book is not badly written but fails to point out serious and important facts about rebuilding a vw diesel engine. You are much better off getting the bentley vw diesel manual.

3.0 out of 5 stars misleading at times, confusing at others., November 14, 2005

By	Rion (Alameda, CA USA) - See all my reviews

Like all these manuals that cover many models and years, they are forced to focus on the service procedures that are common and you shouldn't expect this manual to give the details on how to take YOUR dashboard apart. Instead it gives a lot of specifications and tips on tuneups, brakes, shocks, engine work, etc. It assumes that you are going to remove the engine from the car and rebuild it, so they don't tell you how to do anything major with the engine still in the car. They do also assume a fair amount of mechanical experience and knowledge of cars, and even with though I have that, I still found their procedures confusing at times. Sometimes this was due to drawings rather than actual photos; sometimes it was due to photos being unintelligable due to bad photography.

At one point in this book, they incorrectly pointed to a screw on the manifold and referred to it as the idle adjusting screw, when in fact this screw should only be adjusted by the dealer using special equipment. I wrote a letter to Haynes about this and I felt that their response was a bit defensive.