John Ibbotson, Consumer Reports’ chief mechanic, says that regular washing protects your car’s finish. It helps remove “road grit and residue left from rain and birds.” Not washing your car, he adds, ...

A washing machine repairman leapt away from a truck that hurtled into an appliance store. The quick-thinking technician was cleaning the lid of a second-hand top-load washer beside his shop when ...

This was very much the case with older washing machines and other white goods, and while their modern equivalents may have switched to more understandable motors, there are still plenty of the ...