Sooty Tailpipes....

[spoons]

Since I moved over to Petrol cars, I expected to lose the 'sooty' tailpipes that you get with Diesels.

However, I have to say that the VXR is just as sooty as the Diesels (and no... I'm not putting Diesel into it)...

Is this normal ?

[chrisgettings]

well now then steve your car is sucking the rubber hoses into the engine with that much power ,,so i think with all the hoses getting eaten by the 300eds,, a bit of rubber hose fired out the back is to be expected

[spoons]

well now then steve your car is sucking the rubber hoses into the engine with that much power ,,so i think with all the hoses getting eaten by the 300eds,, a bit of rubber hose fired out the back is to be expected

Must be that then...

[ed taylor]

Or you are not driving it hard enough.

[Bainie]

Mine stopped after the remap, before that they were black .. The new car with a DPF has no soot, none, and it`s a deisel !!

[mduck]

Turbo cars "should" have sooty tailpipes otherwise you drive like an old lady. (Petrol that is)

So sooty tail pipes is perfectly normal and I would be more worried if they where not.

Which reminds me, I have to polish the tailpipes and put som wax on them

[Bainie]

Yep, mine was driven like an old lady ... Thats why I had a Remapped 2.8T *lol*

[Maverick]

Steve, you may find that it is running a little rich, especially on full power, you will find that alot of the time mappers ensure they do run a little rich is will add a little protection to the engine.

If you run lean, on full power it leads to detonation and melting pistons. My Zafira could be like that at times, I would not worry about it.

When new, they also have wax all over them, so any crap will stick like glue, give them a good clean and polish as suggested above and you may see a marked improvement.

[ion]

Yes Steve, this is a common problem.

Unlikely as it seems, it can be caused by having a small object wedged in the bootlock mechanism.

It seems to occur on debadged cars for some reason.

I'd dismantle it just in case!

HTH

[Dwabo]

you need one of them flame kits to burn all the excess soot off... apparently works a treat....