Inside this manual you will find routine maintenance, tune-up procedures, engine repair, cooling and heating, air conditioning, fuel and exhaust, emissions control, ignition, brakes, suspension and steering, electrical systems, and wiring diagrams.
Inside this manual you will find routine maintenance, tune-up procedures, engine repair, cooling and heating, air conditioning, fuel and exhaust, emissions control, ignition, brakes, suspension and steering, electrical systems, and wiring diagrams.
Product was better than described, more like new than used, and it came quick enough to get the job done.
From top to bottom, this book shows you how to repair anything and everything on your vehicle. The only draw back are the images. The photos aren’t very clear, other than that this book will take you step by step on repairing even the most complex items on your car.
This book did not really help me for a 2003 Pontiac Grand Prix, they do not show you very detailed information, I would not buy this book if I knew it had this little detail.
This was not as good has previous Chiltens Manuals I have purchased. It is however a great timesaver when I need to try to repair items such as the dash illumination.
This book is generalized for several different makes of GM cars. Sometimes the car you are working on will be slightly different than the pics in the book. I use it as a general guide to determining if a repair job is feasible by myself or if I need assistance or a professional mechanic. For the $ it is worth picking it up.
Simple book that is easy to follow. For my chevy malibu I keep it in the trunk and it helped me complete a few projects. It also helped me learn how difficult it will be to install an alternator myself that it convinced me to take it to a pro before I got half way into the job and got in trouble.
We purchased this book because of my son’s car. We found that the engine had water in it, so we decided to do the work ourselves. My son’s car is up and running and it was great to have this book for a reference tool.
SO in general you have to know a little something about cars to be able to use these books. The main reason I get them is so I have all the torque specs. Please do not just throw bolts on and crank them down. So often you are going from one metal to another and if you just start cranking down on bolts you will damage the softer metal. Like a oil pain to an engine or transmission. The books are well laid out and easy to find what you need. At times it can be confusing because of all the different models an engine may have been put in and the slight differences on how to fix an issue.
I have purchased a Haynes (or Chilton) manual for nearly every vehicle I have owned. As a self-taught “shade-tree” mechanic, these repair manuals have paid for themselves many times over in by eliminating the labor portion of repair costs. I generally prefer the Haynes manual to the counterpart Chilton manuals since it seems that the Haynes manuals include more photo illustrations vrs. greater use of line drawings in the Chilton manuals (at least in the few that I have used/seen). I have a 1993 Chevy Lumina and have also used this to help a friend repair an Olds Cutlass. Very helpful in both cases.
Book is a good overview but covers too many models and is somewhat lacking in detail on some tasks. It provides a good starting point but you may have to find specific detail through other sources.