Gather as much information as possible about your car issue, including photos and videos capturing when a problem occurs. Not all information online is correct, and that goes for car repair advice.

Code readers are diagnostic tools that every car owner should consider owning. Having one of these is as important as carrying a spare tire or a fire extinguisher in the trunk. Back in the day, before ...

Your car is your key to survival in Pacific Drive. If it's not operating properly or doing some kind of weird, nonsensical, and oftentimes frustrating things, you have probably developed a quirk of ...

Possibly the most frustrating thing to deal with on an electronic fuel-injection car is the dreaded check engine light. Things were simpler with carburetors and distributors--you could hold the ...

The check engine light is on and it could be anything from a loose gas cap to a fouled up cylinder. Keith shows you how to find out the severity of the problem before bringing the car to the shop.

You're driving down the road, everything seemingly normal. Then, out of the corner of your eye, you see a light come on: the dreaded check-engine light. A lot of people just ignore it; after all, it's ...

Along with emissions standards and the OBD port came the much feared “Check Engine” dashboard light. Most people panic when it lights up because they don’t know what’s wrong with their car and how ...

Today’s cars and trucks are literally rolling test beds of technology, which has tended to make the days of the so-called shade tree mechanic and eyeball diagnoses of what ails a given model a distant ...