There are about a thousand and one sounds a car can make when it’s deteriorating toward failure. You’ve got clunks from broken suspension parts, the hiss of a spent radiator, and brop, brop, brop of a ...

Starter motors sit at the center of every modern ignition, yet most drivers only notice them when the key twist leads to silence. I want to unpack what that small electric motor actually does, how it ...

Picture this — you're set to go out, and you try to start your car, but all you hear is a clicking noise. Even worse, nothing happens. Such a situation leaves you with two options. The first is ...

We've all experienced it at one time or another: You put the key in the ignition, and nothing happens. You're met with silence or maybe a faint click, but there's no sign of the engine cranking and ...

Every driver knows that feeling. Something’s off. The car sounds different, and it’s not going away. The human ear picks up on changes in mechanical rhythm faster than most people realize, and these ...