Solenoids are everywhere. They open the water valve in your dishwasher, control the flow of gas in your stove, regulate ink delivery in printers, and play a crucial role under the hood of your car.

In the quest for ultimate performance, the car crafter's perpetual search for horsepower is perhaps only paralleled by his infatuation with reducing weight. Aluminum blocks and heads really help, but ...

BMW of North America has identified an issue affecting no fewer than 105,588 vehicles produced for the US market. As it happens, the engine starter software doesn't prevent the starter from being ...

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 ...

Full-voltage, single-speed motor starters: Single-speed squirrel-cage motors have starters that fall into two categories: full-voltage or across-the-line starters; and reduced-voltage starters.