More cars belching black smoke than ever?
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Has anyone else noticed an increase in the number of cars leaving a ferocious trail of billowing filth behind them?
Slightly knackered vans and 3.5t tippers doing it are to be somewhat expected. But I can't remember ever seeing, or being stuck behind, as many cars doing it as I have in the last six months or so. Primarily seems to be mid-late 00's German fare, usually in a bit of a state.
Just seems strange to me how even with clean air at a higher priority than ever, and rightly so, there's still so many people around unintentionally rolling coal.
Slightly knackered vans and 3.5t tippers doing it are to be somewhat expected. But I can't remember ever seeing, or being stuck behind, as many cars doing it as I have in the last six months or so. Primarily seems to be mid-late 00's German fare, usually in a bit of a state.
Just seems strange to me how even with clean air at a higher priority than ever, and rightly so, there's still so many people around unintentionally rolling coal.
brillomaster said:
If theres a car belching black smoke its usually a taxicab... lots of short journeys and idling probably kills dpfs very quickly. Easier to just get rid i guess.
I've seen on it of a few Transit vans as well. It's Council types with the "feck everybody else, I'm alright jack" attitudeMy diesel five series has started doing it more often, particularly if you boot it out of a junction. It has relatively recently replaced dpf and not remapped or modified. Suspect it’s doing more short journeys since lockdowns and less trips to the office. Does still get a couple of long runs each month. May also just be as they get older and more crudded up.
Our TDV8 Range Rover is quite embarrassing for this. The second turbo only spools up past a certain RPM which is rarely hit whilst pottering around town. As a result it clogs up. On those occasions when you plant your foot for the first time in a while and the second turbo spools up the cloud of smoke that comes out the exhaust is huge!
Wheel Turned Out said:
Has anyone else noticed an increase in the number of cars leaving a ferocious trail of billowing filth behind them?
Slightly knackered vans and 3.5t tippers doing it are to be somewhat expected. But I can't remember ever seeing, or being stuck behind, as many cars doing it as I have in the last six months or so. Primarily seems to be mid-late 00's German fare, usually in a bit of a state.
Just seems strange to me how even with clean air at a higher priority than ever, and rightly so, there's still so many people around unintentionally rolling coal.
This is the crux of it, Joey Chavrat and his mates running shagged old Golfs, Caddies, A4s etc with zero maintenance and crappy mods for moarr powah bruv.Slightly knackered vans and 3.5t tippers doing it are to be somewhat expected. But I can't remember ever seeing, or being stuck behind, as many cars doing it as I have in the last six months or so. Primarily seems to be mid-late 00's German fare, usually in a bit of a state.
Just seems strange to me how even with clean air at a higher priority than ever, and rightly so, there's still so many people around unintentionally rolling coal.
J.R.B. said:
Our TDV8 Range Rover is quite embarrassing for this. The second turbo only spools up past a certain RPM which is rarely hit whilst pottering around town. As a result it clogs up. On those occasions when you plant your foot for the first time in a while and the second turbo spools up the cloud of smoke that comes out the exhaust is huge!
4.4??There's a fix for that!
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