The original Audi A2’s front service flap provided access to its oil dipstick and the filling points for engine oil and washer fluid. More extensive engine access involved removing the bonnet. O
A remarkably low odometer reading has a way of making every other detail fade into the background. The paint may be dull, the tires may look suspiciously old and the service book may contain a de
An engine can be low on oil and sound perfectly content. It may start normally, idle without complaint and carry the car through the morning commute. The driver sees no smoke, hears no knocking and re
Fresh motor oil is reassuring stuff. It pours from the bottle in a clear amber stream, looking clean enough to belong in a kitchen rather than an engine. A few hundred miles later, the dipstick can
There was a time when checking automatic transmission fluid involved a dipstick, a rag, and five minutes under the hood. Now the dipstick has vanished. The filler may be buried beneath the car, the fl
There are dashboard lights that can wait until the weekend. A low washer-fluid warning, for instance, is hardly a reason to abandon a grocery run. The red oil-can symbol is not one of those lights.
Fifty-three and a half percent. That’s how many roadside breakdowns come down to tires, not engines or mysterious sensors—just rubber that never got a second glance before a family pil
You probably don’t expect something as simple as removing a dipstick to become dangerous. But that’s exactly why Harley-Davidson is now recalling more than 88,000 motorcycles across the Un
Changing your own oil sounds like a bigger deal than it really is. Then one day you do it, realize it is pretty straightforward, and suddenly paying someone else to do it starts feeling a little annoy
Most drivers never think about whether engine oil can actually evaporate — and the short answer is yes, it can, but only under pretty extreme conditions. Engine oil normally stays put, but wh