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Degrease Your Engine

We all know how hard it is to keep dirt and debris off the outside of our vehicles, but there's one essential part that often gets neglected. Ironically it's the very thing that enables you to keep making a mess of your vehicle in the first place. This thing is under the hood. This thing is your engine...

Engine Cleaning

When cleaning your car, you normally think in terms of washing the outside and sprucing up the interior. How about under the hood? There are a number of practical reasons to include engine cleaning in your regular maintenance...

Performance Air Filter Cleaning

Oil-coated cotton-gauze air-filter elements tend to free up horsepower because they allow more air to flow into the engine than standard paper-type filters. These oilable elements trap even minute dust particles, but when excessive crud collects on the pleats, air flow through the filter becomes hampered—and the engine's performance suffers. Then it's time to clean and re-oil the filter element...

Undercarriage Wash

As much as we don't like to acknowledge it, a little bit of our car, truck, minivan, or station wagon wears out every time we take it for a ride. Tires leave a small amount of themselves behind. Brakes pads dust themselves all over wheels, calipers and suspensions. Clutch discs deposit miniscule fragments of disc as they grab the flywheel. Coolant overflow tanks drop a few drops here and there. Multiply these factors by the unfathomable number of people turning the key and going to and fro everyday and it all adds up to literally billions of pounds of debris deposited on the roadways of America every year...