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 ...

Car enthusiasts are really no different from open source programmers or home DIYers. All of them like to pop the hood on their respective toys, root around to figure out what's wrong, and then fix it ...

So you're all scared about the condition of your transmission, whether or not you've properly filled it with whatever fluid it's so thirsty for. Unfortunately for you, your car's manufacturer hates ...

There are two schools of thought behind cars no longer including a dipstick. Removing it helps to deter less mechanically-inclined owners from using the wrong transmission fluid and ruining their ...