Maintenance

Superchargers and turbochargers both serve to increase an engine’s power, but they go about it in different ways.

The bad news for vehicle service departments concerned with customer service is that wait times for owners are longer — but the good news is that owners still trust the work they do.

The vehicle repair and aftermarket industries are also affected by parts and labor shortages, shipping delays, increased wait times and rising repair costs.

Although “ECU” typically stands for engine control unit, it could also mean electronic control unit. Here’s what those mean.

Here are vehicle brands offering retail buyers some level of complimentary scheduled maintenance for the 2022 model years.

Electric vehicles don’t use oil in the traditional sense because their electric motors generally don’t have oil in them, but EVs may use other lubricants that should at least be checked periodically.

Our 2021 F-150 was finally set to receive BlueCruise, Ford’s driver-assist system that couples hands-free lane centering with adaptive cruise control, but we found no evidence it had been installed.

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.