Have your owner’s manual handy. Place your vehicle in “park,” or “neutral” for a manual transmission. Firmly set the parking brake. Download and install the manufacturer’s code reader app to your ...

Before I figured out how to work on cars, onboard computer systems scared me. I’ve had no formal training, after all, so the idea of a car’s complex electricals and countless sensors made DIY work ...

If you've got a programmer for your truck, then you have diagnostic trouble code (DTC) reader built into your programmer. Lucky you. But for the rest of us, we still need a way to read codes on our ...

Some service personnel insist that erasing trouble codes for motorists is a valuable courtesy and convenience, but unfortunately, this practice also may be counterproductive. Thinking that they're ...

The 1980′s were well known for questionable fads and trends that thankfully didn’t stick around, but one thing that did was the notion that motor vehicles needed to produce less emissions. Thus, the ...