DEAR CAR TALK: Five years ago, I bought a 2012 Volvo S60 demo with only 4,000 miles on it. It has been a great car and now has just 58,000 miles on it. But over the past few months, the car has ...

I want to extend my thoughts and prayers to the victims of Hurricane Ike. My pal Tim Spell, as well as my brother Ray and his wife Gina, sustained home damage. Q: DEAR BARBARA: I have a wonderful 1985 ...

Q: I have a 1999 Nissan Maxima with only 57,000 miles. I hear a clunking sound at idle from the engine bay. Could this be the timing belt? I actually do not know if this engine has a timing belt or ...

DEAR CAR TALK: Five years ago, I bought a 2012 Volvo S60 demo with only 4,000 miles on it. It has been a great car and now has just 58,000 miles on it. But over the past few months, the car has ...

My 2010 Ford Escape hybrid with 70,000 miles has been a wonderful car. It’s never needed repair. Only new brakes and tires. But in the last year, it’s been making a clunk-clunk sound that comes from ...

Phongsiri Nirachornkul bought his used Chevrolet Bolt EV on November 23 in Fort Worth, Texas. Soon after he started driving it back to his home in Dallas, the fresh Bolt owner started to listen to a ...

Every driver knows that feeling. Something’s off. The car sounds different, and it’s not going away. The human ear picks up on changes in mechanical rhythm faster than most people realize, and these ...