There are about a thousand and one sounds a car can make when it’s deteriorating toward failure. You’ve got clunks from broken suspension parts, the hiss of a spent radiator, and brop, brop, brop of a ...

If you’ve ever accidentally left your car’s lights on and come back to a dead battery (guilty) you understand the annoyance of waiting for a towing company or friend to jump the battery for you. It’s ...

My 1991 Cadillac Eldorado with 140,000 miles on it began having starter problems about a year ago. When I would try to start the car, sometimes it would fire right up and other times the starter would ...

Portable jump starters have become an essential part of modern car care and support kits, offering a reliable solution for ...

Some problems mean your car is past the save point. These twelve warning signs signal it is time to move on: unsafe repairs, major rust, constant breakdowns, failing transmission, overheating, ...

Consumer Reports no longer updates this product category and maintains it for archival purposes only. It used to be that a set of jumper cables (and an obliging fellow motorist) or a call for roadside ...

Wayne Cunningham reviews cars and writes about automotive technology for CNET's Roadshow. Prior to the automotive beat, he covered spyware, Web building technologies, and computer hardware. He began ...

Portable jump starters have become an essential part of modern car care and support kits, offering a reliable solution for dead car batteries without the need for another vehicle or professional help.