I’m going to start with a disclaimer: I am not mechanically inclined. I’ve tried to get hands-on with our cars in the past, but it’s seldom gone well. My latest bugaboo has been the check engine light ...

Our entire lives are run through — and directed by — our smartphones, so it only makes sense that your car’s diagnostics would live there, too. Thanks to Bluetooth technology, wireless OBD2 scanners ...

My dad used to work on his cars. I like to think I helped, but I just held the light where he was working. As cars get more and more complex, doing your own work is getting harder. We are all familiar ...

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A pocket-sized wireless device that enables you to carry out electronics diagnostics on your car through a smartphone app is proving popular on the Kickstarter crowd-funding website. Dubbed OBDLink MX ...

There was a time when you could open the bonnet of a car, look beneath it and see the engine in all its mechanical glory. If something went wrong, you'd more than likely be able to see something, or ...

A staggering amount of data flows through the wires of modern vehicles. Instead of independent wiring and switches for every function, just about everything on today’s cars is routed through the ...

My dad used to work on his cars. I like to think I helped, but I just held the light where he was working. As cars get more and more complex, doing your own work is getting harder. We are all familiar ...