Unless you've got a lemon, most vehicles can continue to run well past 100,000 miles if they are well maintained. That means changing the oil at recommended intervals and making sure your transmission ...

Next to the engine, your vehicle’s transmission is the most complicated piece of gear (some would argue it’s even more detailed than the engine). And though the transmission may not figure in the ...

Ford's Automatic Overdrive (AOD) transmission arrived in 1980 in full-size Fords, Mercurys, and the Lincoln Continental. As the AOD became available in more applications during the 1980s, including ...

It was a good run. How long did your Ford C6 automatic transmission live? Ten years? Fifteen? After 20 years and 250,000 miles, ours finally slipped (pun intended) into mechanical unconsciousness.We ...

Cobus has never been able to keep his car opinions to himself and at age 12, he expressed them in no uncertain terms to a certain motoring magazine’s editor. It was the first of many times he would be ...

The Floor Check™ is a subtle art known and executed by nearly every home mechanic around the globe. What was once a clean garage floor, driveway, or parking spot has now been Jackson Pollacked by a ...

Engineers are just wizards with college degrees. No, I take that back, they're powers are stronger than mere magic. I don't care what spells Harry Potter knows; nothing in his wizarding world is as ...

There is an old quote out there that goes something like, "Sometimes the easiest way to solve a problem is to stop being part of the problem." We aren't sure who said it, but he or she must have been ...