Your car is composed of thousands of individual parts that work together to carry you down the road. Some of those components are large and well-known — for example, most people understand that the ...

CARS.COM — Your car’s struts are a vital part of its suspension system. They are structural in nature, and they are mounted to the top of the car’s chassis. Struts come down through the chassis and ...

Shocks and struts often, but not always, go together. So if you're replacing one, do you need to replace the other at the same time, or can you wait?

I’m 80 years old and purchased my 2004 Toyota Corolla new. Now, I drive mostly around town, so it just has 145,000 miles on it, and I’ve been very diligent with the maintenance over the years. When I ...

The vehicles we drive depend on a huge, interworking network of parts and systems to keep us moving down the road. While some of those components get a lot of attention, like the engine, transmission, ...

The terms "shock" and "strut" are often colloquially used to refer to the same part, perhaps because they both operate within a car's suspension apparatus. Structurally, however, they are distinctly ...