Samantha Reed

If your engine feels sluggish, your throttle response has gone flat, or your fuel bills keep creeping up, the answer might be hiding in plain sight under your hood. After spending the last three months swapping out spark plugs across a 5.0L Mustang, a Honda Accord, and a Yamaha FZ6 motorcycle, our team walked away … Read more

I remember the first time a misfire sent my truck into limp mode on a highway on-ramp. The check engine light blinked, the engine shuddered like it was running on three cylinders, and I spent the next week learning more about ignition coils than I ever wanted to. That frustrating experience is exactly why we … Read more

I remember the first time I swapped a paper filter for a K&N on my old Tacoma. The throttle response was instantly crisper, and the engine note sounded angrier at full throttle. That moment turned me into a high-flow air filter nerd. Over the past three months, our team ran the best high flow air … Read more

I towed a 12,000-pound trailer across two states last spring, and by mile 200 my steering wheel was shimmying like a paint mixer. That trip is exactly why I started digging into the best steering stabilizers for trucks, and why I wrote this guide. A steering stabilizer (sometimes called a steering damper or steering dampener) … Read more

If you’ve ever stood in a tire shop staring at a wall of options wondering whether you really need to swap tires twice a year, you’re not alone. Our team spent the past three months researching, comparing, and reviewing the best all season tires on the market for so you can skip the guesswork and … Read more

Last month, a buddy of mine showed up at my shop with a 2010 Ford F-150 that idled like a washing machine and triggered a check engine light every 30 miles. The cause turned out to be two clogged fuel injectors. After swapping in a fresh set of OEM-spec units, the truck ran smoother than … Read more

If you’ve ever looked at a truck from the side and noticed the rear sits higher than the front, you’ve seen what the industry calls factory rake. Most half-ton and three-quarter-ton trucks ship from the factory with a slight nose-down stance, usually about 1 to 2.5 inches, so they can handle payload and towing without … Read more

I have owned three lifted Wranglers over the past nine years, and our team has installed, driven, and beaten on eight of the most popular kits you can buy right now for JK models. After months of highway commuting, washboard forest roads, and a week of crawling in Moab, one thing became obvious: the best … Read more

I installed my first set of lowering springs on a beat-up Civic in 2009, and the way it transformed the car still sticks with me. The wheel gap disappeared, body roll dropped, and suddenly every backroad felt like a rally stage. Twenty years later, I’ve installed or ridden in dozens of spring setups, and I … Read more

A sway bar, also called an anti-roll bar or stabilizer bar, connects the left and right sides of a suspension through torsion springs. Its job is to reduce body roll during cornering by resisting the suspension movement that tips one side of a vehicle down while the other rises. The best sway bars make a … Read more