Starter motors sit at the center of every modern ignition, yet most drivers only notice them when the key twist leads to silence. I want to unpack what that small electric motor actually does, how it ...

The phrase ‘fire her up!’ took on a new meaning this week as BMW issued a recall affecting hundreds of thousands of cars worldwide. Around 200,000 models in the United States and nearly 136,500 in ...

You hop in your Dodge diesel and turn the key only to be greeted with a click-click sound, instead of the more familiar whirring of your starter motor. Something is wrong. You somehow knew that the ...