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Model specific boards => Golf mk6 => Topic started by: JoeGTI on 01 August 2011, 20:33

Title: GTD no sooty pipes!
Post by: JoeGTI on 01 August 2011, 20:33
Not sure if this is worth a thread on it's own, but something I've noticed in the couple of months of GTD ownership is that the shiny exhaust pipes never get sooty, unlike my old GTI, where they would be black within days unless I kept them cleaned! I would have expected it to be the other way round.

I'm beginning to wonder if anything comes out of the pipes at all  :grin:
Title: Re: GTD no sooty pipes!
Post by: The Doc on 01 August 2011, 20:41
Your soot free as you have a DPF diesels are very clean these days  :wink:
Title: Re: GTD no sooty pipes!
Post by: dieseldunc on 01 August 2011, 20:45
I've just got up to 48k on my 2009 GT140; and the pipes are still amazingly clean. Not quite as pristine as when new, but pretty close.
Title: Re: GTD no sooty pipes!
Post by: REGS12 on 02 August 2011, 07:56
Wait till it does a DPF regen. [unblocks the sooty DPF]  Mine did it's first clean-up at 10500km. Pipes are not so clean after that.
Title: Re: GTD no sooty pipes!
Post by: mac7 on 02 August 2011, 17:16
DPF - reduces particulate emissions, or just saves them up and dumps them when no one's looking?  :undecided:
Title: Re: GTD no sooty pipes!
Post by: dieseldunc on 02 August 2011, 18:21
Quote from: REGS12 on 02 August 2011, 07:56
Wait till it does a DPF regen. [unblocks the sooty DPF]  Mine did it's first clean-up at 10500km. Pipes are not so clean after that.

Mine has done a re-gen, at least once, and still the pipes are comparatively clean; especially compared to the MkIV TDI I drove for 6 years.
Title: Re: GTD no sooty pipes!
Post by: The Doc on 02 August 2011, 21:39
These cars regen a lot more often than you guys think.....

Title: Re: GTD no sooty pipes!
Post by: ajmoir36 on 02 August 2011, 23:07
every 800 miles or so, the ones I notice anyway.
Title: Re: GTD no sooty pipes!
Post by: DDRFan on 03 August 2011, 00:25
the pipes on my GTI are filthy. in fairness i never wash them.
Title: Re: GTD no sooty pipes!
Post by: am1w on 03 August 2011, 06:50
I keep my pipes, wheels and interior very clean. The paintwork is filthy and so it shall remain as the car seems to get no damage when this is the case. Ask Neil, who'll never have his car detailed again!