Portable jump starters have become an essential part of modern car care and support kits, offering a reliable solution for dead car batteries without the need for another vehicle or professional help.

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 ...

If you’ve ever accidentally left your car’s lights on and come back to a dead battery (guilty) you understand the annoyance of waiting for a towing company or friend to jump the battery for you. It’s ...

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

Certain combinations work, like chocolate and peanut butter or Black Sabbath and eardrums. Other combinations don't, like orange juice and toothpaste or remote starters and manual transmissions. Well, ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." An automotive remote starter is the kind of device you don’t know you need or want until you’ve actually ...

Wayne Cunningham reviews cars and writes about automotive technology for CNET's Roadshow. Prior to the automotive beat, he covered spyware, Web building technologies, and computer hardware. He began ...