There are quite a few additives that can solve or prevent many problems under the bonnet of your car. Additives have the task of cleaning your car internally. Some exceptions aside, additives are particularly useful for cleaning your fuel system, the engine and the cooling system. For example, if particulates clot in the engine, your car performs less. The can result in higher oil consumption, loss of power, poor starting or increased smoke from your exhaust. With additives, you can clean the engine to make sure that your car will perform better again. There are a lot of different additives such as octane boosters, petrol and diesel injector cleaners, stop-leaks, fuel stabilizers and many more.
Different kind of additives
There are different types of additives on the market that all have their own impact. Think of fuel additives, injector cleaners, oil additives, EGR cleaner, octane boosters and soot filter additives. Although these additives are the most popular ones, many more are available. We?ll briefly discuss the most popular ones.
Fuel additives are a kind of chemical liquid which you may add to the fuel. Note that not all fuel additives are alike. For a diesel car you need for example a diesel additive and for a petrol car a petrol additive. One of the main goals of fuel additives is to ensure that the oil is better capable of cleaning the engine and/or that the engine is able to produce more power. Within the fuel additive category, there are again types with different purposes. For example, there are cleaning engine additives that help keep the engine clean. There are also injector cleaners, which clean the injectors and improve fuel injection. An additive called an Engine Flush removes soot and dirt from the engine and helps to prevent blockages. A DPF cleaner, also known as a soot filter additive, is also mixed with the fuel and is designed to easily clean the soot filter when it is clogged.
There are also oil additives, which naturally gets mixed with the engine oil. To prevent oil leakages we recommend to use Stop Leak. This makes hardened seals flexible again. There are also oil stabilizers, which improve lubrication between the moving parts in your engine. Additionally, it gives an enhancing boost to cleaning the engine oil.
Last but not least, there are also radiator additives. These aren?t mixed with the fuel but with the coolant. Radiator additives ensure that contaminated surfaces in the radiator gets cleaned.
Buying engine additives
You can buy additives for your car quickly and easily at Winparts. Simply use the filters on the side to make a selection. Next, it's up to you to choose your favourite brand. At Winparts you can choose from a number of quality brands such as Liqui Moly, Wynn's, Eurol and Bar?s leaks.