Technician Paul Kennaley witnesses something frightening almost every week: customers who ignore warning lights in their vehicle instrument cluster but fail to take proper (if any) action. Frequently, ...

When your car needs repairs, few tools are more valuable than an OBD2 scanner. A check engine light only tells you that something’s wrong, but an OBD2 scanner can tell you exactly what it is. The ...

Matt Nelson is an automotive journalist with nearly a decade of experience in all things cars. He's spent years working at dealerships in sales, finance, and service. He's since traded in his pens and ...

Whether you’re a Miata fan or not, you’ve heard the praise: It’s nigh-on impossible to beat the Miata when it comes to the simple joys of driving. For more than 35 years and over the course of four ...

TOAD-Pro is one of the best car diagnostic software tools you can download on Windows to perform a quick and effective diagnosis of your car. Thus, you can use it to check exactly what’s going on ...

Compatible vehicles include OBD 2 ports through which your laptop, mobile, or tablet can receive diagnostic details from the OBD system. The software can also be handy for monitoring fuel economy or ...

The Mazda RX-7 is one of the most iconic cars in JDM history. While it is not universally banned in the United States, model years after 1995 definitely faced restrictions. This came down to a simple ...

Although commonly referred to as the “check-engine light,” some cars may instead display the message “Service Engine Soon,” or show a yellow or orange outline of an engine, perhaps with the word ...

Car thefts are rising nationally in Australia. According to the National Motor Vehicle Theft Reduction Council, a car is stolen every 11 minutes, and one in every 120 homes is affected by car theft.

Modern vehicles are equipped with onboard diagnostics (OBD) systems that act as interpreters between drivers and their cars. When the engine sputters or the check engine light illuminates, an OBD2 ...