Is it necessary to clean car carbon deposits?

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ODiana
07/29/25 4:09pm
It is necessary to clean vehicle carbon deposits, and the air filter should be cleaned frequently. Regularly cleaning the air filter can also help reduce carbon deposits. Driving on the highway can wash away carbon deposits: driving at high speeds can indeed use the airflow to flush the air passages and remove some carbon deposits. Once carbon deposits accumulate, symptoms such as engine shaking and reduced power may occur. Since there is currently no complete way to prevent carbon deposits, if they are not cleaned regularly, carbon deposits will continue to accumulate indefinitely. Reasons for cleaning vehicle carbon deposits: The engine is the core of a car, just like the heart of a person. If a car engine fails to start, it cannot function and becomes a burden, which is wasteful. There are many factors that affect the engine, and carbon deposits are one of them. Carbon deposits have poor thermal conductivity, which reduces the heat transfer coefficient on the surface of components, hinders heat dissipation, and causes the combustion chamber temperature to rise. The increase in carbon deposits leads to overheating of the engine combustion chamber, increasing the amount of nitrogen oxides in car exhaust emissions and worsening the atmospheric environment.
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