The Car Care World
How to Get Your Car Fixed Without Being Taken for a Ride
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About the Book
We all need mechanics, yet half of us don’t trust them. The Car Care World is a collection of humorous factual auto advice columns. Easy reads, these pearls of wisdom are written in consumer-advocate style by an experienced mechanic. The sometimes contentious viewpoints of owners and mechanics are discussed with humor. Some of the reasons for the distrust are explored, and some solutions are offered. The reader will begin to understand whom to trust and when to trust them. This is not a book about how to fix your own car, although hundreds of repair tips are presented, along with solid advice about necessary and unnecessary repairs to today’s cars. It is a series of stories that will enlighten you about getting a car fixed by professionals without being duped, whether you “know cars” or not.
About the Author
Larry DeHays is a college graduate, a US Navy–trained electronic data systems technician, a Vietnam veteran, and a field engineer with the Apollo Program, which landed men on the moon. At twenty-six, he was the youngest station manager in the NASA network. He then brought those skills into the automotive repair field. He has spent forty years “turning wrenches” and talking with the public about car repairs in his service center, in a small South Florida town, where these highly popular weekly columns appear in the local newspaper.