It’s pretty tough to come up with names for ordinary household products, let alone automotive ones. Sometimes they end up being unintentional gems, decades after they have been launched in the first ...

A form of bacteria responsible for respiratory illness, including the deadly pneumonia known as Legionnaire's disease, may be able to grow in windshield washer fluid and was isolated from nearly 75% ...

Editor’s note: Dr. Lee Pickett has retired, but Creators continues to distribute columns from her archive. This one is from 2022. Q: While adding windshield washer fluid to my car’s reservoir, I ...

The last thing you want to do on a cold and snowy morning is spend 10 minutes chiseling the ice off your car’s windshield (especially if you’ve forgotten your gloves inside). Save your frostbitten ...

A form of bacteria responsible for respiratory illness, including the deadly pneumonia known as Legionnaire's disease, may be able to grow in windshield washer fluid and was isolated from nearly 75 ...

Q: While adding windshield washer fluid to my car's reservoir, I spilled some on the ground and my dog started licking it. I sopped up the liquid before he got more than a taste, but afterward, I ...

If your windshield goes milky-white at 65 mph, you don’t need a new SUV. You need the right windshield washer fluid. The winter mistake is simple: you run summer fluid, or you water it down, then ask ...

If you thought buying an electric vehicle (EV) meant you did your part to lessen the human burden on the environment… Well, think again! A new study claims that not everything is about exhaust gases.

I recently was driving my delivery truck to the convention center in our fair city. I hopped out to speak with the gate guard and discovered that my truck was leaking bright green coolant. The guards ...

Q: The rules restricting cold-weather windshield washer fluid that Dylan Rogers complained about are the kind of thing that gives environmentalists a bad name. As he pointed out, this kind of rule can ...

Q: My family and I could have died two weeks ago heading to Tahoe from Sacramento, and I blame California regulations on winter-mix windshield washer fluid. This is a beautiful state and I appreciate ...

Q: While adding windshield washer fluid to my car’s reservoir, I spilled some on the ground and my dog started licking it. I sopped up the liquid before he got more than a taste, but afterward, I ...