Maintenance

If you must drive or ride in a shared car, you can improve your chances of protecting yourself from the coronavirus by using the right cleaning products in the right places.

We reached out to automotive service experts to understand the biggest potential problems with unused cars and what steps you can take to prevent them.

Here are our five suggestions for things you can do to maintain your car while still practicing good social distancing.

CVTs can offer benefits to fuel efficiency and, with the engine more often at optimal rpm (or revs), performance.

We’ve already racked up more than 4,000 miles on our 2020 Palisade. That drew a maintenance reminder, courtesy of the Palisade’s companion phone app.

Hyundai is tacking on three years, or 36,000 miles, of complimentary maintenance for model-year 2020 vehicles sold on or after Feb. 1. Here are the details.

Cars.com had to replace a tire on its long-term test vehicle, a 2019 Genesis G70. It wasn’t as straightforward as you might think.

Twenty-seven months after unfurling an impressive six-year warranty, Volkswagen will cut the provision to a less remarkable four years — but it will also add two years’ free maintenance.

According to a new study by CarMD, the District of Columbia has the highest check-engine-light-related repair costs of any district or state in the country for 2018.

Cars.com has owned a 2017 Chrysler Pacifica for more than two years, and one recurring problem — rough shifts from the automatic transmission — finally landed the minivan in for dealer service.