A Field Guide to Automotive Technology

By Ed Sobey

Open the hood of your motor vehicle and you’ll discover a complicated mishmash of wires, tubes, and mechanical units. What are all of these issues? Written for mechanical newbies who won't recognize their catalytic converters from their common joints, A box advisor to car know-how will aid them achieve a easy realizing of the way their autos functionality. How does an airbag recognize while to set up? what's rack and pinion steerage? And the place precisely does a dipstick dip? Even pro gearheads will research from this consultant because it lines the heritage and improvement of mechanisms they might take for granted.
 
A box advisor to car expertise has greater than one hundred thirty entries, each one with a transparent photograph to make attractiveness effortless. units are grouped in line with their “habitats”—under the hood, contained in the vehicle, and more—to support the reader establish the know-how in query. as soon as the “species” is came upon, the access will inform you its “behavior”—what it does—and the way it works, intimately. This advisor additionally contains sidebars on similar technical concerns, akin to find out how to combine up a batch of home made windshield wiper fluid. It even discusses different autos chanced on on our nation’s highways—buses, bikes, bicycles, and more—as good as a couple of off-road vehicles.

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Cm. comprises index. ISBN 978-1-55652-812-5 1. Automobiles—Popular works. 2. Mechanics—Popular works. I. name. TL146. five. S63 2008 629. 2—dc22 2008046620 hide and inside layout: Joan Sommers photograph on web page 28: © Smokey Combs © 2009 by means of Ed Sobey All rights reserved released via Chicago evaluate Press, integrated 814 North Franklin road Chicago, Illinois 60610 ISBN: 978-1-55652-812-5 revealed within the usa five four three 2 1 828-CRP AutoTech_interiorR4 3/10/09 6:06 PM web page three To all of these greasy knuckled those who tinker and examine higher how you can do issues. 828-CRP AutoTech_interiorR4 3/10/09 6:06 PM web page four C O N T E N TS Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 1 IGNITION! a short background of Wheeled automobile expertise . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 How automobiles paintings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 2 at the motor vehicle Antenna, AM/FM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Antenna, voters Band Radio (CB) . . . Antenna, OnStar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Antenna, satellite tv for pc Radio . . . . . . . . . . . Autopark and Back-Up Proximity structures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Bumper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Convertible most sensible . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Headlights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Heating Plug . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Hubcaps and Spinners . . . . . . . . . . . . registration code . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Spoiler . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Windshield . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Windshield Wipers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Wing replicate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 15 sixteen 17 19 21 22 24 26 28 29 30 32 33 35 three contained in the automobile Air Bag . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . air-con . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . computerized Windshield Wipers . . . . . . . Auxiliary Heater . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Brake gentle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Brake Pedal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . CD participant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . baby vehicle Seat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Cruise regulate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Defrost method keep an eye on . . . . . . . . . . . . DVD participant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Flares (Fusee) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Four-Wheel-Drive Shifter . . . . . . . . . . . gas Gauge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Fuses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Glove field . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . international Positioning method (GPS) . . . . Hand-Cranked Window . . . . . . . . . . . . Heater . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Key Fob . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 forty forty two forty three forty four forty five forty seven forty eight forty nine fifty one fifty two fifty three fifty four fifty six fifty seven fifty nine 60 sixty two sixty three sixty four Odometer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Parking Brake . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . energy Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Radar Detector . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Radio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Rearview replicate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Seat Belt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Speedometer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . guidance Wheel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Tachometer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Temperature Gauge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Tire strain Gauge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Toll Transponder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . flip Indicator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . sixty six sixty eight sixty nine 70 seventy two seventy four seventy six seventy eight seventy nine eighty one eighty two eighty three eighty four eighty five four lower than the automobile Brakes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88 Catalytic Converter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89 Coil Spring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ninety one consistent speed Joint Boot . . . . . . . . ninety two Differential . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ninety three gasoline Tank . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ninety five Jack . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ninety six Leaf Springs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ninety seven Muffler . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ninety eight Rack and Pinion steerage . . . . . . . . . . a hundred Resonator .

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