Your car's transmission is one of its most important components, which means you'll want to take good care of it. Like most of your vehicle’s mechanical systems, a transmission requires quality, ...

Car makers are removing the transmission dipstick to deter owners from using it incorrectly, and to allow transmissions to ...

Automatic transmissions are highly complex automotive components. They're significantly more complicated and challenging to work on than manual transmissions, which means expensive repairs and ...

Q: What does kickdown mean in an automatic transmission? A: Kickdown is a downshift in an automatic transmission triggered when the driver pushes the car’s accelerator to the floor. Automatic ...

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An automatic transmission is any transmission that doesn’t require the driver to shift gears. There are more types of automatic transmissions than ever before, including conventional torque-converter ...

Transmission dipsticks used to be a basic tool of car ownership, as familiar as the fuel gauge or the hood latch. Now, more ...

Some problems mean your car is past the save point. These twelve warning signs signal it is time to move on: unsafe repairs, ...