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My 2024 hybrid has 18K miles. Recently, with cooler weather, I've noticed that the truck's gas engine runs upon starting, making quite a racket. My house is on a hill, and when leaving home I'm almost always headed downhill. The temp gauge stays on "C" for 20 or more minutes until I start going...

Five weeks ago, my wife had a minor collision with an SUV that caused some cosmetic damage to my left front bumper. (It caught the right rear bumper of the SUV in a glancing blow.) No dents, no major scratches, and the no air bags deployed. It cost all of $80 to buff away some rubber residue and...

Quite often when rolling to a stop I feel a distinct "clunk" as I near a complete stop. It feels like a regular automatic transmission dropping into first gear. But with the cvt, there are no gear changes, so it should just be a smooth, continuous transition. Anyone else experiencing this? I'm...

A hypothetical question: We've all heard stories of runaway vehicles that accelerate with unresponsive brakes which usually end catastrophically. I always thought that you could put the car in neutral and engage the parking brake. That would work with the old mechanical parking or "emergency"...