New and updated topics in the 5th Edition cover a wide variety of topics, including sections on Fuel Filters, Internal-Combustion Engines, Electric Drive Units and Vehicle Information Systems. Bosch GmbH technical experts, the same Bosch technical experts who design and build the world's finest automotive components, have fully revised the manual, adding 70 pages of new material.
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The Automotive Handbook, a reliable guide full of up-to-date and concise information, has grown over a period of six decades from a calendar supplement of 96 pages to a 960 page reference work. In that time, over a million copies have been produced worldwide and the text has been translated into numerous languages.
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