If the starter motor on your car stops working, you have two options: Replace it, or repair it. Most people (including me), would probably just buy a new starter and chuck the old one in the trash if ...

Modern starter motors make getting on the road as simple as turning a key or pressing a button — until they stop working. When a starter fails, your car won’t crank at all, leaving you stuck and ...

Zak is new to the CarBuzz team, working as a freelance content writer. When Zak isn't writing How To articles for CarBuzz he's working as a high school automotive technology instructor. Before ...

Starters don't get much thought until we turn the key and nothing happens. Discount auto parts stores still offer rebuilt Autolite or Motorcraft starters for classic Mustangs because they were in ...

HOUSTON – Support Local spotlights individual businesses challenged by the coronavirus pandemic and offers ways you can support them. We asked Houston businesses to share their story with us including ...

Vehicle alternators are interesting beasts. Produced on a massive scale, these electric machines are available for a minimum of cost and contain all kinds of great parts: some power electronics and a ...

The opening part of this series laid out how the starter motor works, set the thing in the context of its electrical supply and suggested a few eyes-and-ears checks as the first steps in ...

There are about a thousand and one sounds a car can make when it’s deteriorating toward failure. You’ve got clunks from broken suspension parts, the hiss of a spent radiator, and brop, brop, brop of a ...