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Buying a Car for Dummies |  | Author: Deanna Sclar
Publisher: For Dummies
Category: Book
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Rating:  9 reviews
Sales Rank: 285309
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
Pages: 432
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.8
Dimensions (in): 9.2 x 7.3 x 1.1
ISBN: 0764550918
Dewey Decimal Number: 629.2220297
UPC: 785555550919
EAN: 9780764550911
ASIN: 0764550918
Publication Date: August 21, 1998
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Stay in the driver's seat as you steer your way through buying and owning a car, negotiating a fair price, and getting insurance and a maintenance plan you can afford. Buying A Car For Dummies can help you save a truckload of money over the life of your vehicle as you find out all you need to know about new and used car ownership in this entertaining and informative reference guide. Renowned consumer advocate Deanna Sclar covers all the angles and avenues related to your automotive questions. Park you fears, frustrations, and anxieties as you discover how to decide between buying or leasing new wheels, how to negotiate with car dealers, how to foil car thieves and carjackers, how to protect yourself in a breakdown or accident, and how to protect your automotive assets with insurance, warranties, and service contracts. Plus, the book features a list of ten great automotive Web sites for pricing information, ratings, industry news, diagnostic troubleshooting, and more.
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 Average Dummies Book January 24, 2010
Douglas Sagor (garland, tx)
Has some great tips but the tips are for someone who can take their time buying a car and really wants to play the game. In this weaken ecomony I not sure people are going to use most of the tips. Also, book is geared for someone who has no idea what they want in a car and not for someone who wants a specific car and is trying to great a good deal.
 A Typical "Dummies" Perusal Type Book May 29, 2009
J. head (littlteton, nh USA)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
One can always expect a summary type book from the Dummies series and this one is no exception. This text is a good book for what is covers. It provides a good reference for classifying systems such as the drive- train, which is broken down into; two wheel drive, 4 wheel drive, all wheel drive, and explains various types of auto transmissions. In another section it shows the various types of suspension system your car may have. The diagrams are extremely helpful as a visual aid. Any book with usuful info has its place, and provides some knowledge, but to perform a repair one should have a manual more specific to the actual car model such as a Chilton or Haynes book.
This book also spends an inordinate amount of time on exotic systems that a perusal type Dummies book should not delve into. An example is the fuel system section spends as much text on the fuel gasoline as it does on flex fuels, electric, fuel cell, and hydrogen vehicles. The section on safety includes explanations of Adaptive Cruise Control, Collison Mitigation Systems, cars communicating with Telematics and various navigation systems. Good information is provided of each system, but in a repair book for Dummies? All in all, it is a perusal type book, bound to have a few nuggets of useful info, but if you are reaching for your tools reach for a real repair manual.also,
 For the Car Illiterate in You... September 14, 2008
Malcolm Joseph (Boston, MA, USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
If you have no idea what a radiator is, nevermind where it is, or you don't know the first thing about leasing or financing a car, this book is for you.
I will admit that I know nothing about cars. I can't tell you the first thing about MPG's. So I knew that as I began my car searching, I needed a little help so that I wouldn't get completely owned by dealers. Enter "Buying a Car for dummies" (aka me). It introduced the lingo to me. What particulars I needed to look for when looking for my car. It weighed the pros and cons for me of getting a new car versus buying a used car. It basically empowered me to know what I was looking for, how I would look for it, and gave me the tools to best make my decision and at a price that I was satisfied with.
The book was published in 1998. Minus factual data (Enterprise isn't the only rental car dealership that sells used cars) and take into account how internet wired our population is 95% of this book still holds true today. I bought it for 26cents and it has been my best buy on Amazon to date.
Next buy: "Auto Repair for Dummies"
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OK but too old April 11, 2008
George S (USA)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book may be OK but too old. Many information are outdated. I will not read any dummies book older than two or three years.
Excellent book for buying a new car May 6, 2007
David A. Hurry (kapolei, hi United States)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is an excellent book to read prior to buying a car. This book helped me to research the car I wanted to buy before going to the dealership by giving me helpful internet sites to find the invoice price on my car and other facts. It also instructed me on negotiating strategies to use when I sat down with the car salesman. True to the books description the salesman used the same tricks the book predicted he would. Highballing the initial price, stalling, stating he was going to lose money on the sale, bringing his boss in, etc. Reading this book allowed me not to be to eager and to be willing to leave if the salesman being cooperative on the price. This resulted in my purchasing a 2007 Honda Civic Hybrid for $11 over the invoice price. I also bought my car insurance using one of the websites suggested by the book.
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