Gas Up 34%, Insurance Down 5%: September’s CPI Moved the Cost of Driving From the Policy to the Pump
BLS data show gasoline up 34.2% and car insurance down 5.0% over the year. The cost of owning a car…
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Mavis Owes Pennsylvania $215,000 Over Alleged Unnecessary Repairs. You Don’t See a Dime Unless You Complain by Jan. 26.
Mavis Discount Tire agreed to pay Pennsylvania $215,000 over alleged unneeded and unfinished repairs. Only drivers who complain by January…
Watch a Missouri YouTuber Tear Down a 2022 F-150 EcoBoost That Hit 180,000 Miles in Four Years, Then Find a Piston Burned Straight Through
A 2022 Ford F-150 Lariat that rolled out of the factory in May 2022 had...
Ford’s Wet Timing Belt Case Went From 44 Complaints to 1,299. The Part That Clogs Can’t Be Reached Without Pulling the Engine.
NHTSA's probe into Ford's 1.0-liter EcoBoost grew from 10,473 cars to 135,551. Two months later there's still no recall. Here's…
Your ‘Full Synthetic’ Oil Usually Starts at a Refinery. That’s Why the Hormuz Mess Is Hitting Your Oil Change.
Most drivers picture synthetic oil as something cooked up in a lab, safely walled off...
The Service Bay Pays Your Dealer’s Bills. AutoNation Just Warned It’s Slowing Down.
AutoNation's stock fell 10.5% after a cautious investor talk. The real story is the service bay that earns half of…
The Feds Quietly Closed Their Honda Ridgeline Backup Camera Case Without Ordering A Single Repair
Federal regulators just closed the book on the Honda Ridgeline backup camera problem, and the...
Ram Recalled This Truck Six Times for Bad Software. Its Engine Got 22 Reflashes and Zero Recalls.
Six of eight recalls on the 2025 Ram 1500 are software faults. The Hurricane inline-six, with misfire codes on every…
There’s a Wedge of Plastic in Your Windshield Whose Entire Job Is to Fool Your Eyes
A modern windshield is a restraint component, an optical instrument and a sensor mount. One layer inside it is deliberately…
A $3,359 Exhaust Won’t Make the Charger Sixpack Sound Like a V8 — the Noise You Want Is in the Crankshaft
MagnaFlow rates its own Charger Sixpack system MODERATE outside and MILD inside — and excludes sound from the warranty. The…
Your Engine Was Designed Around an Oil America Barely Makes. Now the Bill Is Due.
Costco is rationing motor oil and charging $5.80 a quart, but the cause is not crude prices. It is API…
Costco’s Synthetic Oil Price Just Jumped 60%. The Purchase Limit Is the Real Story
Costco has spent four decades building a reputation on prices that refuse to move: the...
Clark Howard Just Killed His Famous Car-Repair Rule — And Blamed the Wrong Culprit
For the better part of two decades, if a mechanic’s estimate crossed half of what...
405,000 Drivers Called AAA Last Labor Day — Blame the Spare Tire Your Car No Longer Has
Every Labor Day, AAA releases the same warning wrapped around a new number. This year...
That $19.99 Car Wash Membership Isn’t Selling You Clean Paint. It’s Selling Wall Street a Subscription.
A market research firm just published a report projecting that the global car wash industry...