Introduction

You wouldn’t get into an airplane that hadn’t had regular maintenance checks carried out on it, yet every day millions of women around the world get into cars and they don’t even know how to open the bonnet! Your car is a sophisticated piece of machinery which needs regular maintenance carried out on it to ensure it works properly.

There may have been a time when you thought you would never get your head around new technologies such as the mobile phone or a computer but now you couldn’t imagine your life without them and you consider yourself quite a pro! When it comes to cars women seem to think that learning about how their car works and what they need to do to look after it, is too difficult and complex for them to ever learn. Most women seem to adopt an “I’ll wait until I hear a noise or see smoke before I take any action” attitude by then you will have no doubt done some very expensive (and sometimes dangerous) damage to your car. This attitude will also greatly devalue the resale value of your car when you look to sell it some time in the future.

When God was making the Universe he did not say “Women shalt not ever be able to understand the car”. Of course we can understand the car – it is probably that nobody has ever taken the time or effort to show us how! We don’t learn it in school, unless you did your driving test after 2005 it wasn’t part of your test, the car sales man doesn’t tell you how to look after it when you are buying the car from him. So when were you supposed to learn?

The Essential Car Care for Girls teaches a girl everything she needs to know about her car – but didn’t even know she had to ask.