Tire dealers and service shop operators should discourage technicians from crimping rubber brake hoses. This seemingly innocent shortcut may cause more time and trouble than technicians realize. Many ...

You're jamming across the dirt about to carve a tight turn through a sandy berm or you're puttering through a busy school zone on the way to pick up your kid. These two scenarios would seem to have ...

Unlike the brake lines, which are metal tubes that run the length of the car, the short brake hose found at each wheel is made of rubber. The hose’s job is to carry brake fluid from a brake line fixed ...

If your car has low brake fluid levels (see “Checking Brake Fluid”), it usually means that there’s a leak somewhere in your wheel cylinders or your brake lines, which are the lines that run underneath ...

When driving a car near the limit, feedback from the steering, engine, shifter, and pedals communicate the car's behavior to the driver. Anything that dulls these signals makes it difficult to extract ...