Help under the bonnet
The New Zealand Car Book. Reader’s Digest/CoHins, 1986. 248 pp. Illustrations. $4O. / The popular “Reader’s Digest Book of the Car” of some years ago has been revised and adapted to New Zealand law and conditions. The result is a handsome and comprehensive book embracing such matters as first aid, insurance, finance, and motoring law, as well as large sections on maintenance and the ways in which parts of a motor vehicle operate. This is a comprehensive technical manual that will serve almost any car,
and with many additional features” that come as part of the package.« There are sections on child safety,’ locks and alarms, caravans, speakers and aerials, and how to set up a ” garage for home maintenance. ' . The mechanical sections are - elaborately illustrated in colour. Even such mysteries as the automatic gearbox seem comprehensible through, these large-format pages. For anyone. interested in travelling more safely on’ the roads, and in treating their car a little better, this is a genuinely helpful - book.
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Press, 10 January 1987, Page 19
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