A dead battery is hardly ever a pleasant surprise. Modern vehicles rely on electronics, sensors, and start-stop systems that place constant strain on the battery, making failures more frequent, ...

My 1991 Cadillac Eldorado with 140,000 miles on it began having starter problems about a year ago. When I would try to start the car, sometimes it would fire right up and other times the starter would ...

Consumer Reports no longer updates this product category and maintains it for archival purposes only. It used to be that a set of jumper cables (and an obliging fellow motorist) or a call for roadside ...

I'm planning to change out my car battery. I haven't done this myself in at least 20 years and back in those days, removing the battery generally meant your car stereo locked and you needed a code to ...