Low cost solution to high bills
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HIGH MAINTENANCE costs often deter many owners of cars and light vans from having regular work carried out on their vehicles. This sometimes leads to expensive failures that might well have been avoided had simple routine tasks been carried out.
For those with an elementary knowledge of internal combustion engines and other basic vehicular components and whose enthusiasm is fired by the sight of steep repair bills, simple informative literature will help to keep maintenance charges down.
Car Maintenance and Repair (Butterworth, f5.95), written by Chas E. Miller and Denis Rea, explains each part of the vehicle in clear terms using simple sketches that will make basic routine work seem less daunting.
The book, which relies more on explanation than diagrams, has a commonsense theme obviously based on sound experience.
If you should only carry out routine servicing, change brake pads, and ignition parts then the saving in labour charges will quickly cover the price of this paperback. B.J.
The Butterworth Group— Borough Green, Sevenoaks, Kent.