Vehicle owners need to keep maintenance on the mind to ensure their cars and trucks are operating at peak capacity. Various components should be checked and serviced at key intervals. Oil changes and ...

In cars, swapping oil happens a lot – yet flipping your tires around matters just as much. It might sound small; still, knowing the right time plus reasons helps your ride last longer, keeps folks ...

Q. I am looking for some buying advice regarding tires. I have a 2009 Rav4 Sport with four-wheel drive and a rear-mounted, full-size spare. I have owned the car since it was new, and have done a ...

Thursday marks a year since the mounting toll of deadly accidents linked to Firestone tires and Ford Explorer sport-utility vehicles triggered a massive recall. The issue is no longer on the front ...

Adding tire rotation to your maintenance routine probably sounds like a nuisance. But even when alignment is kept up to snuff, tires do wear unevenly. Add to this the tendency for parts to wear and ...

Tire rotation is the process of interchanging your vehicle's tires, usually the front ones with the rear ones, with an aim to extend the life of the tread and sidewall rubber quality on each tire. In ...

Grab a cassette tape from your glove box. Isn’t it amazing that something so small can contain all that music? Look at the plastic case. This is about the amount of tire that touches the road. Isn’t ...

Q. With respect to your column on tire rotation (Transportation, June 26) and specifically for front-wheel-drive vehicles, you wrote: ” … crisscross the rear tires onto the front.” This is the first ...

Now that the ski season is over, it's time to take off my winter wheels and tires and put the summers back on. The summer tires are non-directional and I want to rotate them from where they were ...