For the most part, modern cars are incredibly durable and reliable. If you avoid bad habits, most mainstream vehicles are easily capable of reaching 100,000 miles. However, despite how robust ...

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 ...

In the last couple of days I have noticed that a grinding noise has appeared when starting. Whilst at the petrol station I turned the ignition key and this grinding noise appeared and I thought the ...

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 ...

When I start the car in the morning. There's a grinding noise from maybe the fan? I switch the car off, then start it again and the noise disappears, and doesn't occur at all on any start up for the ...

Hello Paul, my Toyota Harrier has behaved strangely on two occasions. I tried to start it and I just heard a whirring noise like a running motor without the car starting. After three attempts, it ...