vi This edition of Auto Fundamentals contains numerous enhancements to help students succeed: • The opening textbook chapters have been reordered to initially direct students’ focus on the career opportunities available in the automotive industry and on automotive service safety before beginning the instruction on automotive theory. • Chapter 1, Career Opportunities, has been completely rewritten with a new wider examination of automotive industry career paths beyond the automotive service and repair field, greater coverage of automotive training and education sources, and expanded content on finding and securing a job in the automotive industry. • All chapter summaries have been restructured and rewritten in a bulleted form to aid student reading and comprehension. • The majority of chapter review questions have been rewritten to provide instructors with stronger assessment resources. • Two new Critical Thinking questions have been added to each chapter to challenge student comprehension, expand on chapter content, and provide a basis for student discussion in the automotive classroom. • Content has been updated throughout the textbook. Dated automotive concepts, systems, and materials have been removed or greatly reduced, and information on the latest automotive technologies has been added. • The textbook includes many new photographs and illustrations to help the reader understand important content. Rubber Manufacturers Assoc. Saab Sergey Ryzhov/Shutterstock.com Slavolijub Pantelic/Shutterstock.com Snap-on Tools snapper8S8/Shutterstock.com Sociologas/Shutterstock.com socrates471/Shutterstock.com Sonnax South Bend Lathe Stanadyne Starrett Sterling Studio BKK/Shutterstock.com Subaru Sun Electric Corp. Sunnen Suvorov_Alex/Shutterstock.com Syda Productions/Shutterstock.com Texaco Th iti2129/Shutterstock.com Th yssenKrupp Tom Wang/Shutterstock.com Torsen/Gleason Co. Toyota Motor Corp. TRW, Inc. University of Toyota/Toyota Motor Sales USA Vereshchagin Dmitry/Shutterstock. com Vetronix Vladru/Shutterstock.com Volkswagen Volvo Voyagerix/Shutterstock.com VW Wagner wawritto/Shutterstock.com William Ju/Shutterstock.com WishnclickS/Shutterstock.com Wix Corp. You Touch Pix of EuToch/Shutterstock. com Zelfi t/Shutterstock.com ZF Transmissions What’s New?