A small but familiar piece of hardware is disappearing from modern cars. Once a routine checkpoint for owners, it’s being ...

Going out to your car and finding a leak can make you worry about making it out of the driveway, let alone to the nearest auto repair shop. Depending on the severity of the leak, you may need to tow ...

Every modern car relies on a small set of critical fluids to cool, lubricate, and protect its most expensive components. When those fluids age, break down, or leak, problems often start quietly and ...

The average car has around 30,000 parts and many fluids are used to keep them running properly. The most important fluids are motor oil, transmission fluid, brake fluid, washer fluid and coolant.

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Ask your mechanic to check your coolant, ...

Automotive fluids are rather gross and toxic, and brake fluid is among the worst of them. Glycol-based brake fluid (DOT 3 or 4), used in the vast majority of cars, can act like paint thinner if ...

It might seem unusual to drain a vehicle's windshield washer fluid, but there are legitimate reasons why this is an essential maintenance activity. I experienced this firsthand last year with a Ford ...