Our IMI Certified and Which? Trusted Traders approved service is about looking after the overall health of the vehicle, not just turning up to ‘perform a clean’.

Every booking starts with a health check to ensure it is safe to proceed, will clean properly and is appropriate.

An initial diagnostic code scan of the entire vehicle looking for underlying issues (where applicable).

Then live data diagnostics throughout the booking to highlight underlying issues with injectors, fuel pumps, sensors, thermostats, etc. which may not be logging error codes.

A properly performed Engine Carbon Clean helps clean up the hot side of the turbo, combustion chamber (injector tips, pistons, cylinders) and cats.

This will get it running smooth and quietly again – restoring response, fuel economy and lowering emissions.

This saves money on fuel, provides a smooth, quiet and responsive drive and can help deal with issues such as MOT emissions failures or sticking turbos.

Yes. All hydrocarbon engines create carbon buildup. You can clean petrol, diesel, LPG, hybrid or anything else such as methane.  Not just cars and vans, but we also work on boats, tractors, tanks, generators and landfill engines.

All vehicles (excluding electric and hydrogen fuel) will create carbon buildup.

Typical symptoms include a decline in fuel economy, noisier engine, increased vibration, sluggish response and smoke/emissions levels.

In the past cars just dumped a lot of this carbon out through the exhaust, but as fuel economy and emission targets have got stricter over the years the engine components have been developed and added in order to keep the soot within the vehicle rather than passing it out through the exhaust. This then clogs up EGR valves, inlet manifolds and DPFs.

There is no single answer to this, but most people are coming back to us for repeats approximately every 20-30k miles depending upon driving style, journey length and fuel quality used.

It is wise to time the diagnostic and clean just prior to a service or MOT if one is due.

If you have just bought a vehicle or warranty is due to expire then it is a perfect time to get it checked out and cleaned up.

Yes it does and it is very good at what it does as long as the relevant pre-checks are performed to ensure an effective clean and critically it is done by someone who is properly trained, certified, with the right approach and equipment.

An Engine Carbon Clean is great at cleaning up the back of a turbo, combustion chamber, injector tips, pistons, cylinders and cats to get a vehicle running smooth, quiet, responsive, economical and emissions friendly again, but will not clean up cold areas such as EGR valves or inlet manifolds and won’t unblock a DPF.

The only way to clean up these cold areas safely and effectively is a manual approach, e.g. strip and clean of the EGR or ‘walnut blast ‘the inlet.

The Engine Carbon Clean is complementary to these manual approaches as they are targeted at different areas.

Cleaning up the combustion chamber cleans up the source of the dirt – this helps minimise future buildup in the EGR and inlet manifold as well as extends the mileage between DPF regenerations.