Basic Auto Maintenance Explained: A Beginner's Guide to Fluids, Brakes, Tires, Batteries, and Troubleshooting

A warning light, a new noise, a soft pedal - small signals become expensive repairs when they are ignored or misread.Basic Auto Maintenance Explained teaches beginning owners to observe, verify, act, and record, in that order. It explains how fluids, brakes, tires, batteries, and charging systems work; how to read the dashboard without guessing; how to check pressure, tread, levels, belts, hoses, ...