Maintenance

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.

The radiator is a key component of the cooling system whose main responsibility is to cool the mixture of antifreeze and water that circulates throughout the engine.

AFS stands for adaptive front-lighting system, or headlights that swivel in the direction a vehicle is turning to illuminate more of the road where the vehicle is heading instead of straight ahead.

Vehicle service costs are unpredictable, but a new report from data analysis firm We Predict aims to add a little clarity.