The 2nd and 3rd generation two-liter turbo Audi and Volkswagen engines are known to produce an oil leak from the cam cradle. This leak allows oil to run down the front of the engine block and onto the water pump housing. Over time this oil will deteriorate the plastic of the water pump housing...

Volkswagen Motorsport, with the help driver Romain Dumas, crushed yet another record over this past weekend. This time it wasn't just an electric-car record, but the overall record up the famous FOS hill—finally toppling the twenty-year-old record by a massive 1.7 seconds. The Volkswagen ID.R is...

Every fifty to sixty-thousand miles you should be replacing the water pump on your BMW if it has the N54 engine. It's common for them to fail around this mileage, and when it does, diagnosis is simple as it results in a fault code you can access via a scan tool. This replacement BMW N54 Water...

This Sunday, we closed out our second Cars and Coffee of the year, following our largest ever that fell in conjunction with our Customer Experience Center grand opening. Our parking lot and lawn quickly filled in—almost matching the turnout of the grand opening.  I'd like to lead off with a...

The BMW N54 engine is one of BMW's most popular engines they ever produced. However, like all direct-injected engines, it has one major flaw—and that's intake valve carbon buildup. You could go to the dealer and pay over $700 to have your intake valves cleaned, or you can do it yourself for a...

The OEM turbochargers on the BMW N54 engine have multiple methods of failure that are relatively common. Having to replace your failed turbos isn't a small task, so doing so with new OE units the first time is imperative.  Turbochargers on the BMW N54, for the most part, last around 100,000 miles...

The FCP Euro motorsport team is in sunny Sonoma, California for rounds seven and eight of the TC America Championship. A new circuit for the FCP Euro crew, Sonoma Raceway provides breathtaking terrain and, of course, the associated challenges with an unfamiliar and unique circuit.  As a second...

Exactly one month ago, Volkswagen Motorsport and the 670HP-equivalent all-electric VW ID. R took to the Nürburgring-Nordschleife for their first official test in preparation for their record-setting attempt. After a long month of anticipation and speculation, they succeeded in what they set out...

FCP Euro is at GingerMan Raceway for the GRIDLIFE MidWest Festival. There's drifting, time attack, concerts, wheel-to-wheel racing, and even Japanese-inspired Touge battles between our VW GTI TCRs and the Honda Civic Type-R TCR. Here's everything you need to know about what the team is up to and...

FCP Euro is Proud to Announce the Grand Opening of their Customer Experience Center For Immediate Release - May 24, 2019 -- Milford, CT -- After the long-awaited construction completion, FCP Euro is proud to announce the grand opening of their Customer Experience Center.  Sunday, May 19th marked...