A “Check Engine” light on your dashboard could mean anything from a loose gas cap to a wallet-destroying repair in the offing. For [Dean Segovis], his CEL was indicating a fairly serious condition: a ...

For years, automakers were reliant on 6-speed transmissions. However, they began to adopt 8-speed replacements, following pressure from the government to meet new environmental regulations. When the 8 ...

CARS.COM — Vehicles with an automatic transmission might not have a clutch and a stick shift, but they can still have trouble shifting. At times, drivers may have trouble getting the car out of Park ...

As we’ve covered several times in the past, General Motors is facing several lawsuits over alleged defects in its eight-speed automatic transmission, which has been known to exhibit various ...

Toyota is facing fresh legal trouble over one of its most widely used gearboxes. Two new class action lawsuits allege that the automaker’s UA80 eight-speed automatic transmission is prone to early ...

An inline transmission filter is an aftermarket part that some enthusiasts choose to install on their rides. Here's how to ...

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, ...

The modern automatic transmission is a wonderful thing with efficiency that is now as good as a conventional manual, but with all the refinement and convenience that automatics have traditionally ...

A gearbox is one of the units that completes the drive train and is the only part of the car that connects the tyres to the engine. Essentially, the gearbox lowers rotation speed from the input to the ...

Transmission dipsticks used to be a basic tool of car ownership, as familiar as the fuel gauge or the hood latch. Now, more new vehicles arrive in driveways with sealed gearboxes and no obvious way ...