The Family Handyman: Simple Car Care & Repair

by Reader's Digest Association and Family Handyman Magazine

Book Overview

For the car owner who's willing to bite off the manageable maintenance tasks, this book, written in clear, plain English, presents hundreds of illustrated repair jobs that can be done on one's car at... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0895779307
• ISBN13: 9780895779304
• Release Date: May 1997
• Publisher: Reader's Digest Association
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 1.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 10.0" x 7.3"

Customer Reviews

Good for understanding your car

This book is great for those wanting a basic understanding of cars in general and how to maintain them. A great starting point for those like me who don't know a lot about working on cars but are willing to learn the basics. The book covers a lot of thing that are good to know such as how to identify different fluids in the car (along with what to look for to see if there are signs of something wrong in them), what to look for to tell when belts need to be replaced (along with way to get rid of belt sqeak), along with some of the "simpler" repairs such as hoses, lighting, and spark plugs. It's best as a starter, and then a companion to something like a Chilton manual for your specific car. For example, this book talks about the PCV valve, but I had no idea where it actually was on my own car until the Chilton manual showed me a photo diagram of the engine I actually had.