Consumer Reports has no financial relationship with advertisers on this site. The process of walnut blasting, which entails cleaning the intake manifold and valves of a car’s engine with a high ...

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.

When you think of paint stripping as merely removing a coating from a base material, it sounds very simple. However, in reality, this process can be messy, time consuming, expensive, and can leave a ...