Maintenance

Automotive solenoids allow a smaller amount of current from the ignition switch to route a much larger amount of current from the battery to the starter motor.

Although drop-in and spray-in bedliners have been the traditional choices for protecting the inside of your pickup’s cargo bed, there is now a third style: sectional bedliners.

Our Palisade appeared to be on the up-and-up after the initial fix in November 2020, but a year living with the SUV — and particularly the return of hot weather — unearthed whiffs of the original scent.

Low-rolling-resistance tires are designed to improve a vehicle’s fuel economy by reducing its rolling resistance as it travels down the road.

A throwout bearing is used on vehicles with a manual transmission.

Disc brakes are more modern and effective than drum brakes, which date back almost to the beginning of cars themselves.

While it’s tempting to squeeze in as much gas as possible when you fill your tank, filling it past the pump’s first automatic shut-off can damage your car to the tune of hundreds of dollars.

Run-flat tires can be driven on — at least for a short distance — even if they lose all their air pressure.

A flywheel is a heavy disc attached to the end of a rotating shaft that helps smooth out the engine’s power pulses and store energy through rotational momentum.

Actuators work behind the scenes in vehicles to convert energy into a physical action or force, and they perform a variety of performance and convenience functions.