FUNDAMENTALS OF AUTOMOTIVE TECHNOLOGY: Master Modern Vehicle Repair, from Combustion Engines to High-Voltage Battery Safety, Sensor Calibration, Fault Codes, Wiring and Scan Tool Diagnostics - Softcover

Publications, GeekTech

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798170646395

Verlag: Independently published, 2026

Inhaltsangabe

Is the vehicle on your lift changing faster than your training can keep up with?

Have you read a fault code that named a component but never told you why it failed?

Have you turned work away because the knowledge, not the equipment, was missing?

Every technician meets this moment. The mechanical skill that carried the trade for a century is still necessary, but it is no longer sufficient on its own. A modern vehicle couples stored energy, structural loads and a network of control units into one system, and a fault in one place surfaces as a symptom somewhere else entirely. Parts replacement gets expensive fast. What is missing is rarely effort. It is a structured way to think about the whole vehicle, and a method that holds up when the pressure is on.

This handbook builds that structure from first principles and carries it through every system on the car. Work through it and you will be able to:

• Diagnose by measurement instead of by parts replacement
• Work safely and methodically around high-voltage systems
• Read a wiring diagram and locate the actual fault
• Follow a repeatable diagnostic strategy under time pressure
• Interpret live data and understand what it is telling you
• Calibrate driver-assistance sensors to a defensible standard
• Explain your findings clearly to a colleague or a customer

The vehicles arriving in workshops now will be routine within a few years, and the trade is quietly sorting itself into technicians who can service them and technicians who cannot. That sorting is already underway. Work that calls for high-voltage competence, network diagnosis and sensor calibration goes to whoever is ready to take it, and it does not return to the shop that turned it down. The gap compounds in both directions: every job you take builds the skill for the next one, and every job you pass up hands that ground to someone else.

You already have the mechanical foundation. This is the book that connects it to the vehicle in front of you.

Start building that competence today.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Independently published
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2026
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 13: 9798170646395
• Einband: Broché
• Anzahl der Seiten: 390
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Manufactured by Amazon on behalf of the author; https://www.amazon.fr/hz/contact-us; ; c/o Amazon Media EU S.à.r.l., 38 Avenue John F. Kennedy; Luxembourg; L-1855; Luxemburg