TOLLAND – Attention gearheads: the Tolland Public Library is now offering you access to a do-it-yourself online repair guide to fixing and maintaining your cars and trucks.
Thanks to a $1,935 grant from the Tolland Public Library Foundation, library patrons can now access the Auto Repair Reference Center for free at the library or from home using their library cards.
The database features repair instructions for more than 37,000 vehicle makes made from 1945 to the present. It includes many drawings and photos as well as wiring diagrams for many vehicles.
The database also includes more than 110,000 technical bulletins and recall notices.
Library director Barbara Pettijohn thanked the Foundation for the grant, which has brought a valuable tool to the hands of local home mechanics.
“Anyone trying to save money by doing their own car maintenance will find the auto repair database easy to understand and helpful,’’ she said.
To use the database from home, visit http://www.tolland.org/library/ and click on the auto repair icon. Patrons must have a Tolland library card to login to the database from there.
For more information on the Auto Repair Reference Center, call the library at 860-871-3620.