Shutterstock // Setta Sornnoi Over time and miles, your car might start to slow down. It might not accelerate as quick ...

The other day I dropped my car off at a European specialist shop, and while I was there, a technician was working in the engine bay of a Mk7 Golf R, cleaning out carbon deposits off the intake valves.

Gasoline direct injection, or GDI, is one of the most crucial bits of technology in the modern internal combustion engine. In engines equipped with GDI, highly pressurized gasoline is sprayed directly ...

There are many things that can degrade your vehicle's performance over time, from a dirty air filter and low tire pressure, to fouled spark plugs and worn out plug wires. However, nothing will rob ...

Car problems are a regular occurrence for drivers. Something can go wrong with the plugs, tire alignment could be off, or you haven’t changed your engine coolant in a while, and now performance is ...

Fuel injectors certainly can suffer from a build-up of carbon and the problem will be worse if the engine is not burning its fuel and air completely every time its cylinders fire. But 58,000km would ...