The P0118 code means that the engine control module (ECM) has detected a voltage signal that’s too high from the engine coolant temperature (ECT) sensor (below). In practical terms, the ECM believes ...

So your car’s temperature gauge is acting up, or not working at all, and you want to fix it? Good for you. Your car’s engine temperature is vital to its operation, and a properly-operating gauge is a ...

Q: My 1999 Pontiac Sunfire coupe is doing something something I can't easily explain. The car has 240,000 km on it and it has the stock engine, although I think I bought it with a K filter charger.

When I built my first serious race engine, a Honda B18C with Toda high-compression pistons and camshafts, a knife-edged crankshaft, a Supertech valvetrain, and a ported cylinder head, I threw a ...

One of the oldest Mustang gripes we can think of is engine overheating. We can write this problem off as one of the penalties of old car ownership, but classic Mustangs were cursed with overheating ...

As an engineering professor for more than 40 years, my father often told me that the only difference between a difficult problem and an easy one is knowing the correct answer. While that axiom can be ...

Along with power, internal combustion engines make heat. They actually create so much heat that if it isn’t adequately channeled away, it can potentially damage an engine beyond repair. To solve the ...

Whats wrong?: In certain cases the engine coolant temperature sensor may be cracked, tThis cracking could cause the engine coolant temperature warning light to come on inadvertently and in rare cases, ...

Internal combustion engines — including those that run on diesel fuel — rely on various systems, accessories, and electronics to keep the pistons moving and your wheels turning. Of those systems and ...

This Propylene-based engine coolant lives up to most of the company claims based on my testing so far. In my 2019 KTM 790 Adventure, the temperature ran 8 to 10 degrees Fahrenheit lower than the OEM ...