For most of us, starting our car is (or should be) completely uneventful. You turn a key or press a button, then the engine just starts. However, there was a time when cars had to be manually started.

Back in the day, you had to hand-crank your engine to start it. Thankfully, Charles Kettering and Cadillac gave us the electric starter motor in 1912, and we’ve started our engines from the comfort of ...

When a twist of the ignition key brings no churning from- below, is the problem in the starter or outside it? In this, the first of two articles, we’ll step through simple tests which will show where ...