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Summary: Good enough for basic troubleshooting
Review: This book has saved me a lot of shop trips, mainly in the electric components. The wiring diagrams are great and with minor misprints. I will recommend it, though I haven??t seen the Cilton manual, but from ... the Haynes is better.
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Summary: Good enough for basic troubleshooting
Review: This book has saved me a lot of shop trips, mainly in the electric components. The wiring diagrams are great and with minor misprints. I will recommend it, though I havenÂ't seen the Cilton manual, but from ... the Haynes is better.
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Summary: Errors and misprints galore. Pictures unclear.
Review: This is a decent general reference book, but as I was troubleshooting an ignition problem I found that color codes and positions of wires listed are incorrect. The illustrations are black and white, grainy, and very small. Additionally they certainly appear contradict the instructions in the text.Example : a drawing labels 4 wires coming off of a part as a,b,c,d and gives the color codes. These don't match the real part. Then the instructions say check the resistance between a and c, but the photo shows them checking between b and d. The color codes are right for the picture, but the labeled position is wrong - or is it the other way around .... who knows ????? Many of the photos are too small and grainy to verify what is being checked anyway, so now your really lost. Another example, a section tells you to remove all the wires from the terminals on a part (so that only the case is electrically connected to the ground). Now you are asked to verify that there is voltage between terminal X and ground. How could there be!?!? Not finding any is supposed to tell you the part is bad. The photo shows it being checked with all wires connected. ?!?!? BTW one of these check is for resisitance between two teminals that show 12V between them - ZAP! there went your VOM fuse! From these types of checks you are expected to determine if a part is faulty or not. If you have two identical hondas, one working and one not, you could use this book to get the gist of what you are supposed to be checking, otherwise its pretty useless. There is a decent section on trouble codes which seems to be correct if not complete, and other than the nitpicky details it seems to be a good guide, but they assume the user has a good bit of knowledge and don't go into enough detail on alot of steps.
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Summary: Errors and misprints galore. Pictures unclear.
Review: This is a good reference manual for an experienced mechanic. This book does not contain enough details for a beginner. The author of this book assumes the reader knows the major engine parts and components like crankshafts, pivot bolts, etc. and its locations. There are not enough pictures to show where the exact location of the part you are looking for and to know how it looks like. All of the pictures are black and white too, so you would have to look real close in some of them. If you are a beginner mechanic with no experience or little experience, I don't recommend this book for you. This book would be a good reference manual for an experienced mechanic. This book has good information about the specifications on different areas of the car like bolt torque, logical electrical wiring diagrams, etc....
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Summary: Not for the beginner mechanic.
Review: This is a good reference manual for an experienced mechanic. This book does not contain enough details for a beginner. The author of this book assumes the reader knows the major engine parts and components like crankshafts, pivot bolts, etc. and its locations. There are not enough pictures to show where the exact location of the part you are looking for and to know how it looks like. All of the pictures are black and white too, so you would have to look real close in some of them. If you are a beginner mechanic with no experience or little experience, I don't recommend this book for you. This book would be a good reference manual for an experienced mechanic. This book has good information about the specifications on different areas of the car like bolt torque, logical electrical wiring diagrams, etc....
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