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.

Fuel injectors can get gummed up with dirt and fuel residue over time. Photo credit: David Traver Adolphus / Autoguide.com. Over time and miles, your car might start to slow down. It might not ...

Over time and miles, your car might start to slow down. It might not accelerate as quickly as it once did; the engine may not run as smoothly as you remember, or the fuel economy may dip—but ...

Fuel injectors that are working properly respond instantly to the demands of your engine. Unfortunately, even the best fuels contain impurities that can gum up the injector nozzles, reducing ...

The basic difference between direct injection (DI) and the port-fuel injection (PFI) systems we've become familiar with since the mid-1980s is that PFI sprays fuel into the intake manifold (behind ...

Fuel injectors don't just deliver fuel. They meter it, shaping the spray so the air-fuel mixture burns in the way the engine wants it to. When deposits build up, injector fuel flow can decrease and ...

You’re walking down the aisle of your local auto-parts store and you happen to notice the shelf full of fuel-system cleaners. They might be nestled between oil additives and those bottles of goo ...

Direct injection is all the rage these days. It has become the most significant development in internal combustion engines since, well, fuel injection. But the difference between the two is more ...

Direct injection, as the name suggests, refers to a type of fuel system which introduces fuel directly into an engine's combustion chambers. This differentiates it from conventional injection systems ...

The basic difference between direct injection (DI) and the port-fuel injection (PFI) systems we've become familiar with since the mid-1980s is that PFI sprays fuel into the intake manifold (behind ...