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[Martin_1962]

Whenevr I follow a modern one - the soot has gone but they make my throat feel horrible - does anyone else suffer from this?

[psychnurse]

Yes... it also makes my eyes water. Thought it was my hayfever, but, pinpointed it to city traffic... epecially derv!!

[Kevin Wood]

Yep. They make me wheeze if I'm om my bike (not often  ).

I wonder if they overfuel a bit to try to pick up some performance - or maybe many more chipped tractors are running around these days.

Mate of mine bought an Audi A4 TDI which smoked embarassingly every time he pulled away. Has been back to the stealers several times - TADTS. In the end I think they offered him a very good deal to swap for a 1.8T petrol - just to get rid of him.

Kevin

[TheBoy]

I think poor fuels don't help.  Mine smookes like a bitch at WOT on supermarket diesel, significantly reduced on branded fuel.  They always said diesels had a high microparticle emission though.

[Martin_1962]

Doesn't appear to be soot - follow a modern common rail diseasel and you get a dry throat and they smell.

[TheBoy]

Doesn't appear to be soot - follow a modern common rail diseasel and you get a dry throat and they smell.

Don't all diesels?

You should have a carbon pollen filter to stop that

[psychnurse]

They do seem to have a certain cabbage type smell. I thought it wa the wifes feet... but no, bless her! She always thought cat converters was my wind... so were evens  

[cem_devecioglu]

I think poor fuels don't help.  Mine smookes like a bitch at WOT on supermarket diesel, significantly reduced on branded fuel.  They always said diesels had a high microparticle emission though.

Yep...I need to clean from my paint weekly  

[Martin_1962]

Doesn't appear to be soot - follow a modern common rail diseasel and you get a dry throat and they smell.

Don't all diesels?

You should have a carbon pollen filter to stop that

yes but the smell gets through

[Taxi_Driver]

Doesn't appear to be soot - follow a modern common rail diseasel and you get a dry throat and they smell.

Don't all diesels?

You should have a carbon pollen filter to stop that

yes but the smell gets through

Try putting the recirculation on auto, see if that stops it   :-/

[Martin_1962]

Doesn't appear to be soot - follow a modern common rail diseasel and you get a dry throat and they smell.

Don't all diesels?

You should have a carbon pollen filter to stop that

yes but the smell gets through

Try putting the recirculation on auto, see if that stops it   :-/

It does but why should the diseasel in front be polluting so much?

[Taxi_Driver]

Doesn't appear to be soot - follow a modern common rail diseasel and you get a dry throat and they smell.

Don't all diesels?

You should have a carbon pollen filter to stop that

yes but the smell gets through

Try putting the recirculation on auto, see if that stops it   :-/

It does but why should the diseasel in front be polluting so much?

Try following a 15 year old bus, thats probably done a million miles.......i did today, got stuck behind it......i nearly choked myself......the rubbish that was coming outa the exhaust.......makes modern diesel's seem like petrols to me  

Diesels do tend to carbon up a bit if only used to pottering around town.......when they get opened up......they 'clear' themselves out......might be this that you are seeing/smelling.

I used to like doing that with my C220 diesel......spend a couple of days pottering around town.......then when i fancied it really open it up....ie in a 40 limit.....pull away from the lights foot hard planted down.....so the turbo was really working........you should have seen the smoke screen i left behind