Some cars barely leave the driveway anymore. One owner works from home. Another keeps a second car for weekends. Someone else leaves town for a few weeks and comes back expecting the car to start like
People will baby a car in all kinds of strange ways. They will buy the fancy gas, wipe dust off the dashboard, stress about tiny paint chips, and somehow still ignore the four things holding the entir
Everyone knows someone with a car that just refuses to die. It is usually not pretty. The paint is tired, one of the buttons stopped existing emotionally years ago, and the inside smells faintly li
Car advice has a funny way of surviving long after it stops being true. Some of it came from older cars. Some of it came from guys who sounded confident. Some of it probably started because it made so
The average car on American roads is now almost 13 years old, which sounds surprising until you think about what a new car costs now. Then it sounds completely logical. A lot of people are h
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 people learn car stuff the same way they learn everything else in adult life: badly, on the fly, and usually five minutes after the problem starts. Nobody hands you a guide called How Not to B
Fuel economy usually does not get worse all at once. It sneaks up on people. The tank that used to last comfortably through the week suddenly needs filling sooner, then sooner again, and before long i
Michelin offers an 80,000-mile treadwear warranty on two of its Defender tires, the Defender2 and the Defender T&H MTP. Only applies to replacement tires though, not the ones that came on the car
Bubbling, peeling, purple-tinted windows are one of those things that make a car look genuinely rough. Taking it to a shop is an option but it's not exactly cheap and it's honestly not that ha