Description
Do you regard your car as an enemy or a friend? Are you charmed, mystified or terrified by its little ways? Did the person who sold it to you turn out to be a saviour or a tormentor, and could you have told which before you signed the cheque?Though the public is getting on to four wheels more enthusiastically than ever before, cars are as much of a mystery as ever to many of their owners. If you can afford to stay ignorant, fine. If you can't, this book will change your motoring life.The Virgin Car Book translates the language with which 'experts' pull the wool over your eyes and the rug from under your feet, explains simply how and why cars came to be the way they are and what you can do to avoid the worst pitfalls of ownership.In the war with the internal combustion engine and its minions, agents and familiars, this book is on your side.ISBN:9780863692598