Chrome bumpers made a quick exit from the automotive scene in the late '80s. In their place are elaborate, but flimsy, plastic covers hiding stamped-steel impact beams with a wide swath of Styrofoam ...

I bought a new car over the summer and then endured a minor mishap, requiring a quick repair that I covered in this story. I referred to scratch repair in that guide, so I thought I'd revisit my ...

You can live with scratches on your car — but you shouldn't. Scratches are like the old torture of death by a thousand cuts. Eventually, they'll destroy your car's finish by allowing rust to develop ...

I'm stopped at a red light at a weird intersection where the road goes uphill and turns at the same time, turning right. I look to see that no cars are coming from the left and start out moving only ...

A gap forming on the side of a vehicle’s bumper, where it meets the fender, is a relatively common issue that can occur during normal vehicle use. The difficulty of the repair depends on the cause of ...

The fastest way to tell how deep a car scratch is to run your fingernail across it. If your nail glides over the mark without catching, the scratch is in the clear coat only and can be polished out at ...