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Learn how to fix your own car with easy to follow, step-by-step instructions using online auto repair manuals. Save money and make auto repairs fast and fun.

Take a look at professional online auto repair help before you start repairing your own car. You may just avoid a disaster.

Your car or truck is a big investment and it should be treated as such. When it comes to auto repair it can go two ways.

You can be successful and fix it right the first time. Or you can make matters worse by creating additional problems. The latter will increase repair costs and down time of the vehicle.

Let me give you a real life example of this. I had a nice guy e-mail me for help with a no start condition. My first advice to him was to get some online auto repair help from a quality manual, to properly diagnose the problem.

My favorite online auto service manual has the best no start diagnostic charts in the business, because they come straight from the factory auto service manuals. Easy to follow tree charts with pictures and tech tips.

The gentleman told me he could not afford the $24.95 and his brother told him that replacing the distributor would fix the problem. A new distributor was $650.00.

He bought and replaced the distributor but this did not fix the problem. It was also not returnable like most electrical parts. Again I said cut your loses and get any kind of auto service manual and diagnose the problem, do not through parts at it.

Well He replaced the coil, cap, rotor, wires and spark plugs. It Still would not start. Now he is a thousand dollars deep in un-needed parts. The guy who could not afford $25. Finally he towed the car to the auto repair shop and they fixed it for about $500.00 by replacing the fuel pump.

So $1,850 later he was driving again. And to let you know step 1 on the diagnostic tree chart was an in-depth procedure with pictures for checking the fuel delivery system.

Also the online repair manuals had a technical service bulletin or TSB on the fuel pump for this specific vehicle. This is why the online auto repair manual can help you. What if you had the same auto repair information that the dealership level technician has?

But in a format that provides step-by-step instructions and pictures that a person of any skill level can follow. The virtual online auto repair help system was created to bring top-level information to the do it yourself auto repair public.

Find the auto repair information you need quickly and easily with the online auto repair manuals handy search engine. Just type in the component or area of the vehicle you need assistance with and the online programs provides you with just what you're looking for.

No more hunting through old-fashioned paper auto repair manuals filled with outdated information. You now have access to the same information professional auto repair mechanics use. Mechanics may have more hands on experience then you but they are not smarter then you, they just know how to find the required information for a specific automotive repair.

Mark Gittelman is an ASE Certified Master Technician With more than 23 years experience in the auto repair business. For more free automotive information visit his car questions web site. Or you can go straight to the  All-Data online auto repair manuals web site And take the free test drive. 



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