General Motors has issued a recall for over 350,000 pickup trucks as they may have left the factory with alternators that were wired incorrectly. The defect: according to the filing from the National ...

Your car won't start for the second day in a row. You ask your neighbor for a jump (again) and head off to work — late, of course. You come to the conclusion that it has to be the battery or the ...

What are the signs of a failing alternator? How do I differentiate between a battery problem and an alternator problem? Every car has a red “alternator” or car battery symbol in the instrument panel ...

There’s a very simple check you can do to see whether the battery or the charging system (alternator, regulator and wiring) is at fault here. With the engine running, place the probes of a multi-meter ...

For the most part, it’s simple. Your car or truck has a battery, it supplies electricity to the bits that need it, and that’s all you care about. Until something goes wrong or you want to do something ...

It’s cold. It’s dark. It’s raining. Your reach down and flip on the fog lights. They help but not that much. So you power up the light bar. Yup! That’s the ticket. The stereo is cranked up and life is ...