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Automotive Technology: A Systems Approach
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AUTOMOTIVE TECHNOLOGY: A SYSTEMS APPROACH, 5th Edition remains the leading authority on automotive theory, service and repair procedures. The new edition has been updated to include coverage of hybrid vehicles throughout the text, new content on electronic automatic transmissions, preventive maintenance, and many other topics that reflect the most recent changes in the industry. Chapters cover the theory, diagnosis and service of all system areas for automobiles and light trucks, and the content closely adheres to the 2008 NATEF Automobile Program Standards.

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quality text book
 
Review Date: May 17, 2010
Reviewer: C. J. Scott, New Zealand
this book is massive in a good way, like the majority of these books it doesn't go into heavy specifics of automotive systems but it gives you a great understanding of everything. Would be a great book for anyone who like me is wanting to get into the automotive industry or just wanting to know how there car or any engine works.
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Review Date: April 19, 2010
Reviewer: B. Desta,
On time delivery, Excellent condition and I recommend everyone to have business with this seller. Thank You.
Piles of info-poorly edited
 
Review Date: April 10, 2010
Reviewer: Robert O. Harris, Middletown, CT
The quality comparison of this book next to other college level books (non-automotive) as a device for learning is both sloppy and poor. I read this edition for my course. It is cobbled information about parts/systems of automobiles. Pet peeve #1: Acronym usage, an acronym is explained once, sometimes several chapters back, and then used without an explanation or catalog of meanings to be found in the book. BAD for instructors who teach by jumping around. Pet peeve #2: I can go online and find basic symptom/cause charts. Why so few, and good luck finding them when you need them. Pet peeve #3: Conversion charts: 2. Metric to Decimal & General Bolt Torques. That's it! Pet peeve #4: The book has a full SPANISH glossary of general automotive terms, remember peeve #1? No acronyms defined! In finality... As a dirty prep to get your students on the same idea for next class discussion, sure. But you could do just as well to do a little research and give them a bibliography of web address'.
Big book, useful ideas, expensive though
 
Review Date: March 26, 2010
Reviewer: Virgilio A. Nebel, River City
For those of you out there purchasing this book for an automotive class, ask your professor if its fine to use the previous edition, since this baby will run you for about a tenth of a thou, which in these times of non-abundance and redundance carves a chasm in your pocket. But yes, for those of you planning an automotive career, a new book would def be an investment. My prof allowed the previous edition be used for basic class. Major changes might've occurred in the electric motor industries, and you may not need that knowledge until you're in an advanced stage of learning. So if you're just entering the automotive industry through its learning side, consider using a used book (extend the lives of books!)- once you get deeper into the matter, deeper into hybrids and full electrics, resell the old edition (you might get half what you got it for) and use that money towards one of the newer, more expensive ones.
good enough
 
Review Date: March 25, 2010
Reviewer: Mary Beardsley,
The book was like new except that is was rubber-stamped on the inside of the front cover and it also had a number written on the pages in magic marker. For my purposes it was acceptable. However, if I needed an unmarked new book I would have had to return it.