Hi -

Noticed the Furby was pretty smokey today. I know, it's warm out there, but it really bellowed out a fair cloud. I was a little low in the revs, in 2nd gear, and I did plant it a little, but nowhere near flat-out. Engine was warmed up very nicely but is this really normal?

Car has done 10k, has PD160 air intake + Green Filter, with 4k on the Green filter so far.

Why would it smoke noticably more today then on a day where it was 33 deg C though?

You could always try the much talked about 'pikey mod' to cool the inlet air temp a bit...

I found some fuels smoke more than others.... i.e supermarket fuel = smoke... BP ultimate or Shell = less smoke.....

Same fuel as always - Esso, normal diesel.

Looks like it's gonna have to be pikey'd :( - Already got some bits but not got round to it due to Mrs being in during the week and my work

FMIC is starting to look very, very tempting

Low gears = more smoke, idle or missed gears especially and pretty much in hot weather, so i would not worry too much, FMIC i'm not going for at the mo but the pikey mod is definately worth considering :orb_phew:

Hi,

I've had the same thing, not sure if it's the heat or not but I have notice brown/black smoke in big quantities at low revs, around 16-1800RPM. Got mine booked into the dealer just in case. Very noticeable though and I have a passat with the same engine which doesn't do the same, weird !! Let you know the outcome.

Andy

You obviously dont drive it hard enough

One thing mine never did was smoke...

Hmm - let's just say it does get driven enthusiastically It gets given a blast-out revving treatment at least a few times a week, so that's not it.

It was just bad yesterday, first time I've noticed it in ages really. Engine bay was boiling hot though, so probably going to be venting that soon

Mine's been doing alot in this warmer weather even before being Jabba the hut'd from lower revs.

The "heatwave" weekend it was very smokey on a full blast and fuel economy dropped big time. I only got 380 miles out of the tank! :eek: :eek: which is about 60-80 miles down on what I usually get.

I've got the arch mod bits just have to find the time to put it on

Mine's been doing alot in this warmer weather even before being Jabba the hut'd from lower revs.

The "heatwave" weekend it was very smokey on a full blast and fuel economy dropped big time. I only got 380 miles out of the tank! :eek: :eek: which is about 60-80 miles down on what I usually get.

I've got the arch mod bits just have to find the time to put it on

Perhaps you should check the type of oil you put in

You obviously dont drive it hard enough

One thing mine never did was smoke...

Mine didn't either and I didn't have any of these pikey mods, Cupra intakes or FMICs

Perhaps we should start up a company to offer a stop diesels smoking service

Chris