The Lady Mechanic's Total Car Care for the Clueless : A Manual for Car Owners by Ren Volpe,
ISBN: 0312187335,
paperback.
Buy this book if you don't know what to do with your
car besides put more
gas in it and
wash it once in a while. Written by "the lady mechanic," it is not as overly ambitious as most car repair manuals (you will not be
rebuilding the engine), but it's not too
dumbed down either. Should you get really interested in the
innards of you car, she provides you with the
vocabulary to get started. For
the rest of us, though, the book tells you how to do all the things you should know how to do already. The language is clear enough and the
index blissfully good enough that you should really read the thing through once or twice
and then put it in your
glove box and keep it there for when
weird things happen
on the road. Get a copy for everyone you know who might need it: your mom who drives to work by herself, your geeky
little brother who just got his license, your
girlfriend, anyone you care about and would like to be
safe and
informed.
PS: No, I am not related to the
author. I just think it's a marvelous little
book.