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Can you rebuild an engine that's been through the ringer? This is a question I've often been asked when I worked as a mechanic, and one I've had to confront directly as someone who exclusively uses ...

Mat Armstrong rebuilds a wrecked Ferrari 812 Superfast, exposing the true cost, labor, and risks of buying a salvaged V12 ...

Today’s cars and trucks are literally rolling test beds of technology, which has tended to make the days of the so-called shade tree mechanic and eyeball diagnoses of what ails a given model a distant ...

It is a flooded 2015 Ford Mustang Convertible that has been sitting for quite a while. The time has come for it to be inspected and labeled as "worth fixing" or "to the crusher." With warning lights ...

A car rebuild expert traded in a sixth-generation Volkswagen Golf GTI for an old Tesla Model S that doesn't run or drive. No one on his team is a Tesla expert, but he still thinks that they can fix ...

Safety, performance, aesthetics, noise, comfort, reliability, and durability are the goals that keep automotive engineers up at night, and the miracle solution has, so far, been "more plastic." ...

In central Virginia, a group of teenagers is quietly reshaping what a high school auto shop can mean for a community. Instead of just learning to change oil or swap brake pads, students are rebuilding ...

If you’re really lucky and you’ve lived a good, clean life, it could be your oil pressure switch. That’s the device that reads the oil pressure and turns on the “Check New Car Ads” light when the ...