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Years ago, the check engine light on my car used to fill me with dread. I never had the time or the expertise to handle it, so it became a neon orange alert that I was about to spend hours finding a ...

Chaya Milchtein holds a copy of her upcoming book 'Mechanic Shop Femme's Guide to Car Ownership.' For a lot of people, learning how to maintain their car and what question to ask their mechanic can be ...

As the auto mechanic industry races to fill jobs to meet the growing consumer demand for car repair, underrepresented groups, like women and Hispanic/Latino people, are beginning to take on and ...