Automotive Maintenance & Light Repair

Rob Thompson's Automotive Maintenance and Light Repair is a great textbook to prepare for the ASE G1 Auto Maintenance and Light Repair certification exam. I'm studying for the G1 exam and find it precise to the point, torough in coverage within the scope of the exam and what an entry level technician should master to succeed in Automotive Service.By no means will you learn how to rebuild an engine or a transmission here, but as to the maintenance and light repair, you get focused training on the specifics of ASE G1 AMLR category.Basicly it covers bumper-to-bumber inspections, suspension and steering, brakes, electrical system, engine systems, basic engine performance, basic transmission, drivetrains and axles service, basic Air Conditioning service and a chapter on Preventive Maintenance, Fluid Service and so on.This book has its place as Preventive Maintenance, Inspections and Light Repair, that is it's scope and prepares well on such competencies, so don't rule it out. There are other Autmomtive Technology books with a deeper and broader scope, but for AMLR, here you have it in one book organized.Rob Thompson co-authors with Jack Erjavec the textbook Automotive Technology: A Systems Approach, now on its 7th edition, which provides full coverage of Automotive Technology competencies on all vehicle systems thoroughly.For us, technicians starting out and wanting to master the G1 AMLR category, which provides a lot of work to keep you busy in the shop, this is a great book to study from, learn it well and you will be a competent technician, then you can move up into mayor systems repair on automotive.Add it to your automotive bookshelf, study it, learn it, and make a career on it!Highly recommended to prepare for ASE G1 Automotive Maintenance and Light Repair exam.

Although I have only overviewed this e-book my main concern was that the media, such as pictures, graphs, diagrams, etc., were going to be missing as they sometimes can be from the kindle versions. But this e-book is complete and feature rich. It is huge with over 800 pages and lots of reviews and summaries. It is a complete introduction to Auto Maintenance and Light Repair and at a third the price of the hard cover I highly recommend it if you are training for the ASE certification or as a reference to the subject. Cool book.

Really great no bent corners and gives my son all the information about being a mechanic.