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Summary: A Must Have!!
Review: I found this book to be an excellent reference source and I highly recommend it. The book is well written and easy to understand. The illustrations are great. The author's style is witty and entertaining. The recipes are a delicious touch!
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Summary: Bill "Toolbox" Martinez from Miami Florida
Review: I read this book and thought that it was informative and professionally written. Being an Hispanic, I thought that the recipe section at the end of the book was refreshing. The recipe for the Bollos Pelones was muy magnifico. I use this book every day in my business. I thought that the introduction cleverly (and clearly) explained the theory behind how an engine works. Many times books such as this get bogged down in technical minucia and are often not easy to read. This book flows and is easy to follow for both the professional as well as the novice. In short, GREAT BOOK, I BOUGHT IT without waiting for the movie to come out.
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Summary: I expected more from a 'Bible'
Review: Purporting to be the "OBD II Bible", I find that this book falls short of the mark. Although I did learn a few things from the book, I expected considerably more technical content. I was able to read through most of the book in an evening (except for the recipe chapter, which I was somewhat annoyed to find- feeling that if I wanted a recipe book, I would have *bought* a recipe book!).I will say that the book does present clear, concise and well laid out text and graphics for the content it does have. But I was expecting a far more in-depth treatise on the subject going into possible symptoms/solutions for each type of main OBD II code. In the author's defense, I probably am not the target audience as I am a computer engineer who's playing around with designing an OBD II scan tool as a hobby.
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Summary: I expected more from a 'Bible'
Review: Purporting to be the "OBD II Bible", I find that this book falls short of the mark. Although I did learn a few things from the book, I expected considerably more technical content. I was able to read through most of the book in an evening (except for the recipe chapter, which I was somewhat annoyed to find- feeling that if I wanted a recipe book, I would have *bought* a recipe book!). I will say that the book does present clear, concise and well laid out text and graphics for the content it does have. But I was expecting a far more in-depth treatise on the subject going into possible symptoms/solutions for each type of main OBD II code. In the author's defense, I probably am not the target audience as I am a computer engineer who's playing around with designing an OBD II scan tool as a hobby.
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Summary: Great Book
Review: Thanks for writing this book. These guys are funny and creative - even my wife liked it, well just the cooking chapter, haha. It helped me to understand all the theories behind OBDII among other interesting concepts. At first I thought this book was for fixin all parts of cars! After I read the book, I learned that OBDII is really about something else - the Engine and Fuel system. But thats great since I am a weekend warrior (I repair my car and the cars of my family, on the weekend). My wifes car had a check engine light on, so I got this book and it has helped me to choose the scan tool that is right for me, and plus not spend too much money. Once I got the tool, I checked her car, and BAM, the fault code was right there in the book. So this book saved me time and money.
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Summary: Book has limited audience
Review: The book focuses on the computerized On Board Diagnostics system (OBD-II)which is on all cars built in the US in 1996 and later. The author assumes you know about the sensors, actuators, and enmissions control systems such as PCV, EGR, EVAP, O2 sensors, fuel injection operation, and so forth, although a very brief definition is given for many of these terms. You will not be able to fully understand this book until you really understand how a modern engine works. You will need another book for this. I was somewhat disappointed in the book. Since I understand electronics, I wanted more detail about how OBD-II worked. The book was lacking. Of the 250 pages in the book only about 50 had any real "meat". The rest were tables of DTCs (trouble codes), repeated info, shallow glossaries, blank pages, and pictures that did not really add any important information. Also there is a food recipe and a picture of the author's wife. (Strange???) I feel much more could have been done in a book with a nearly $ price tag. The book is produced very well with glossy pages and a hard cover. I feel the real information could have been put in a $ soft cover book of about 100 pages using less expensive paper and smaller type. I read the book in less than one hour. It now sits in my closet until I need to use it to look up a trouble code.
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Summary: informative for the weekend mechanic
Review: The book was and is informative to the mechanic new to and unfamilar with OBDII systems.
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Summary: DON'T WASTE YOUR MONEY!!!
Review: This book is absolutely terrible. I knew I would return it the instant I found the chapter containing COOKING RECIPIES! I'm not kidding, there's actually a chapter on kitchens and cooking in this "auto repair" book. I would have laughed had I not paid ... for it.
The real reason you shouldn't buy this book is that it contains no real information. The book is composed literally of photographs and illustrations, and tables of OBD II codes. Well, you need the OBD II codes, right? WRONG! ... Plus you get all the other information in those books, such as how to fix your brakes or repair the engine.
This book is a joke... I feel sorry for the unfortunates who decided to keep the book and can't return it anymore. This one's going back book rate!!
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Summary: Most WORTHLESS book I've ever seen!
Review: This book is absolutely USELESS. It contains very little information--only brief and superficial explanations. Half the book is filled with lists of diagnostic codes easily available from the web. The lists of generic, GM specific and Chrysler specific codes only contain titles and do NOT contain explanations. The Ford codes have very brief explanations. To top it all off, there is an entire chapter of KITCHEN RECIPES! Yes, kitchen recipes in an OBD book! I could not believe my eyes. No words can adequately explain how bad this book is. Don't waste your money.
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Summary: Finally, I understand!
Review: This book presented the information in a way that I understood. I never was able to get this much out of Factory manuals. It taught me how to use the scan tool for diagnostics and diagnostic tips for the the Big (3) vechicles.
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