Automotive Fundamentals

by Jay Webster

Book by Webster, Jay This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0028297202
• ISBN13: 9780028297200
• Release Date: January 1986
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Glencoe
• Length: 325 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Automotive Fundamentals by Jay Webster, Second Edition

After finding the first edition of this book in an Air Force library, I contacted the publisher and bought the second edition for my daughter's sixteenth birthday in 1993. She refused to read it and, as far as I know, hasn't read the Owner's Manual to her new Civic, either. On the other hand, I refer to this book a lot.Webster explains in clear, non-technical, terms how and why an automobile works, covering the interrelationships of the parts. As a guy who learned the how of automobile maintenance, I appreciate understanding the why, and the influence of one aspect on another. The book is also well organized.I recommend this book to the technically curious but unschooled. It's especially valuable to the car owner who wants to understand enough about their vehicle to help diagnose problems and speak intelligently with those involved in its maintenance and repair. Cars are for many of us a necessary, major, and recurring expense rivalling shelter and education in magnitude. I want my children to become intelligent consumers of things and services automotive, and to enjoy their cars.