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The check engine light has always been a bit of a gamble. Sometimes it’s a loose gas cap. Other times, it’s a four-figure reminder that modern cars are way more complex than they need to be. What’s ...

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You’re driving along in your car or truck and suddenly a yellow light illuminates on your dash telling you to check or service your engine. If you’re like most car owners, you have little idea about ...

Oxygen sensors detect the amount of oxygen in the exhaust. Oxygen sensors usually don’t have a replacement schedule. A bad oxygen sensor can be diagnosed with a code reader or scan tool. A car’s ...

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When the check engine light comes on, it always grabs your attention. It’s designed to alert you that something isn’t right under the hood, but that doesn’t always mean it’s time to panic. Some causes ...

There are few things more distracting when driving than a check engine light, or CEL. The CEL is a vague, catch-all light that indicates there is an error somewhere ...

Most of us expect that a check engine light is no big deal when it comes on within the first 20k miles. It might mean a loose gas cap or a fussy sensor. That’s what makes what happened to Nick Godfrey ...

Today’s cars and trucks are literally rolling test beds of technology, which has tended to make the days of the so-called shade tree mechanic and eyeball diagnoses of what ails a given model a distant ...

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Abstract: A spacer-based cavity with distributed Bragg reflectors (DBRs) is employed in high-performance gas sensing utilizing wavelength interrogation. The DBR is formed by a 1-D photonic crystal ...