I have noticed there is little puffs of black smoke coming out of my exhaust pipe after I have changed gear and accelerated ( my dad was following behind and he noticed) its not alot only only small.

My car is a Fabia VRS 2004 with 50k miles on, is this unusual and do you think I should get it checked out or is it quiet common for a diesel. As i know diesel cars do smoke a bit.

I have only recently just bought the car

Its normal.

normal x 2

one of the perks of having a fabia, smoke screen

Yep, entirely normal. Go for a long fast run and the tailgate gets covered in soot.

Normal +5

Its a diesel? Thats your answer!

Normal +6

when i first got my fabia, my friend was behind me going through town and she foned me (hands free) to say that she thought something was wrong with my car as it was chugging out big clouds of smoke at times.

women.

Is this time for a link to Jason's video?

Haaa welcome to club

YouTube - fabias

Nothing exciting but gives an idea of the smoke levels emitted from a humble likkle Furb':thumbup:

Welcome to the smoky club common trait of the fabia even better when you run millers diesel sport 4 through it to clean up the injectors.

Millers has no effect on mine. I'd just take the smoke as gospel

same here, mines a heavy smoker according to Star performance when he stuck it on his rollers!

Davy, Symon's car is in a whole different league to yours when it comes to smokiness:thumbup:

I can see a most smokey TDi bet coming on

I'd be happy with a puff not a cloud. I clean it one day and the next its matt black

You can do it on demand with a bit of practice. Drive along for 2 or 3 miles at about 1500rpm then give it full throttle and you get a very satisfying black cloud to annoy convertible drivers following you.

You can do it on demand with a bit of practice. Drive along for 2 or 3 miles at about 1500rpm then give it full throttle and you get a very satisfying black cloud to annoy convertible drivers following you.

I can do something similar, put I dont have to wait 2 or 3 miles under boost, I can do it at any rpm, in any gear

A few weeks ago I noticed mine was smoking when I booted it from 1500 to 2000 rpm. It was more noticeable with the low sun. I was using Shell V-Power Diesel and Millers for a few tanks as well. I think it's the ECU over-fuelling in this high outside temperature, so perfectly normal.

If the car is smoking all the time especially on boost then it maybe a leak in the pipework to and from the Intercooler. There may also be a loss of power as well.

"1500rpm then give it full throttle"

"I booted it from 1500 to 2000 rpm"

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"1500rpm then give it full throttle"

"I booted it from 1500 to 2000 rpm"

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Only in a high gear. If you do it in 2nd it's fine.

or have a SMF

God you think thats bad follow mine then