Essential Car Care For Women

Despite the many advances women have made since the internal combustion engine was invented, there is still one widely held belief that won’t seem to go away: that when it comes to cars, women should just leave it to the men. In Essential Car Care for Women, ESPN NASCAR pit reporter Jamie Little and Discovery Channel “Turbo Expert” Danielle McCormick team up to dispel this myth once and for all—and to offer the indispensable, hard-won advice women need to buy, sell, and care for their cars with confidence. With this handy guide, women will learn how to save themselves money by performing basic—but essential—maintenance tasks on their own. Little and McCormick explain what an alternator, regulator, distributor, and timing belt are; how to change a tire, recharge a flat battery, check the oil, and assess tire pressure; what to do when a car breaks down or when an accident occurs; how to buy a car without being taken advantage of; and more. Straightforward and easy to follow—and including simple step-by-step diagrams and pictures to help along the way—Essential Car Care for Women is the ultimate handbook to everything a woman should know about her set of wheels.

A basic car maintenance guide and how-to written with women in mind, offering foundations in engine oil, fuel systems, tires, and hoses and belts. The guide provides step-by-step procedures for inexpensive maintenance tasks as well as a section on jumper cable set-up and safety.

The must-have accessory for every girl's set of wheels. This handy glove box-sized book tells a girl everything she needs to know about looking after her car, but probably didn't even know she had to ask! With step-by-step pictures, find out how to change a tyre in heels, recharge a flat battery, check your oil and tyre pressure, what to do if you are involved in an accident, how to buy and sell a car, learn all the car lingo so you will understand everything from GTi to horsepower. Save money on your fuel bill with its great energy saving tips. Buy this book and you will never need a man again!

Ok girls, are you ready to get your hands dirty and take back control of your own cars? Think Sex and the City meets Barbie on wheels, this book will finally dispel the myth that women should leave the cars to the men.

"Maintain your ride, think like a mechanic, get down and dirty under the hood"--from cover.

Vehicle maintenance.