Modern Automotive Technology: Systems, Diagnostics and Applications: Principles and Practice of Vehicle Diagnostics and Electronic Repair
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Oct 2 2026
Pages: 430
Weight: 2.18
Height: 0.87 Width: 8.50 Depth: 11.00
Language: English
Modern vehicles are no longer mechanical machines with a few electrical accessories attached. They are distributed computing platforms built around combustion, thermodynamic and chemical processes, and servicing them demands fluency in both worlds at once. A technician who understands combustion but not network communication will misread half of what a diagnostic tool reports. An engineer who understands control software but not the mechanical wear beneath it will design systems that look elegant on paper and prove fragile in the shop. Most resources widen that gap: mechanical theory sits in one place, electronic diagnosis in another, and the reader connects them alone, usually while a vehicle waits on a lift.
What you will be able to do:
- Calculate compression ratio, thermal and volumetric efficiency, gear and final drive ratios, braking force and alignment angles from first principles
- Analyze air-fuel ratio, injector duty and delivery pressure across port, direct and common-rail fuel systems
- Convert raw sensor signals into engineering values through transfer functions, scaling and analog-to-digital conversion
- Read short-term and long-term fuel trim as diagnostic evidence rather than as numbers on a screen
- Trace communication faults across vehicle networks, gateway modules and multi-network architectures
- Interpret standardized diagnostic data, including trouble code structure, parameter decoding, readiness monitors and freeze frame snapshots
- Apply a repeatable five-step method that moves from verified complaint to confirmed root cause, including intermittent faults that refuse to reproduce
It is written for upper-level automotive and mechanical engineering technology students, for instructors needing one text that spans systems and diagnostics, for technicians moving from code reading toward genuine fault isolation, and for engineers who want the shop-floor reality underneath the specification. A foundation in basic physics, algebra and general mechanical concepts is assumed.
Begin reading, and start treating systems knowledge and diagnostic skill as one continuous way of thinking about vehicles.
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