Chrome bumpers made a quick exit from the automotive scene in the late '80s. In their place are elaborate, but flimsy, plastic covers hiding stamped-steel impact beams with a wide swath of Styrofoam ...

Chrome bumpers made a quick exit from the automotive scene in the late 1980s. In their place are elaborate but flimsy plastic covers hiding stamped steel impact beams—with a swath of Styrofoam ...

Maybe you've been there, trying to drive your car into a corner too quickly or simply putting it in Reverse and cringing at the crunch. The resulting damage used to mean a quick trip to the auto-parts ...

It is deceptively easy, but usually very expensive, to junk plastic car parts when they are damaged in crashes. Zip off that damaged bumper bar, side mirror or headlamp and bolt on a fresh one.

BALTIMORE, May 9, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Repairing plastic? No problem. With new DAP ® RapidFuse™ Plastic Primer Kit, hard-to-bond plastic surfaces are no match, offering a fast and flawless repair ...

I'm stopped at a red light at a weird intersection where the road goes uphill and turns at the same time, turning right. I look to see that no cars are coming from the left and start out moving only ...

I recently had a minor fender bender in my 2012 Accord. I failed to stop on an icy surface and barely tapped a pickup truck that was stopped in front of me. The airbag did not inflate, the truck had ...

DETROIT (AP) -- None of the six most-popular midsize sedans earned a top rating in bumper safety in the latest crash tests performed by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety. The Mazda 6 was the ...

As if the unusually cold winter in eastern Canada wasn’t bad enough, body shops are reporting having to fix more than the usual number of car bumpers at a cost of about $1,000 each. In the good ole ...

DETROIT -- None of the six most-popular midsize sedans earned a top rating in bumper safety in the latest crash tests performed by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety. The Mazda 6 was the only ...