Honda announced yesterday that it is issuing a voluntary recall for roughly 440,000 units of its stellar Odyssey minivan. The recall covers cars from the 2018–22 model years and concerns side curtain ...

A 2025 Hyundai Ioniq 5 N owner was venting on Reddit recently about not being able to change his brake pads without specialized computer equipment. It sounds insane, but this is what new-car ownership ...

Right to Repair: The Car Hacker’s Guide to Freedom—or Felony? For decades, car enthusiasts popped open hoods with little more than a socket wrench, a Chilton’s manual, and some elbow grease. Tuning a ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. The 5.7-liter Hemi was the first engine of Chrysler's modern Gen III V8 family, introduced in the 2003 Ram trucks. Since then, it has been ...

Most people can generally assume, and be correct about, how expensive it is to own any German luxury car. The BMW X1 is the smallest SUV the brand has to offer, but it doesn't lack the flare, comfort, ...

Think of your Volvo like a finely-tuned orchestra. When it refuses to start, it’s often a single instrument out of tune. Your job is to find that one note—be it a dead battery, a faulty sensor, or a ...

Electronic car keys, also called key fobs, are useful for controlling your car’s doors, trunk, and alarm and can sometimes even remotely start your car from a distance. Like any other electronic ...

It’s easy to think that you need a mechanical engineering degree — or, perhaps, to be Dominic Torretto from The Fast and the Furious — to work on your own car. That’s hardly true, however. You should ...

It’s true that engine remaps were once the preserve of geeky car enthusiasts and the boy-racer brigade, but what was once regarded as a dark and often dubious art has become surprisingly mainstream ...

This article was researched using publicly available sources. See our methodology and corrections policy. Reprogramming a car’s computer, also known as the engine control unit (ECU) or electronic ...

This article applies to the Mercedes-Benz C-Class C250/300/350 w204 (2007-2014). So you want to make your C-Class truly your own, but wheels and body parts don't truly add any performance. Good news!