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Model specific boards => Golf mk7 => Topic started by: scotland67 on 24 July 2014, 08:50
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Hi all
Have you all noticed that the chrome exhaust tips do not get black and sooty as they did on the mk 6. Just done a 500 mile trip and they are still clean. On the mk6 they were dirty after less than 10 miles.
Can this be down purely to lower emissions?
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Hi all
Have you all noticed that the chrome exhaust tips do not get black and sooty as they did on the mk 6. Just done a 500 mile trip and they are still clean. On the mk6 they were dirty after less than 10 miles.
Can this be down purely to lower emissions?
Yeah I've noticed it. Mine barely get sooty at all. They were really terrible in the MK5, they used to get black within a few miles and almost permanently black if you didn't keep on top of cleaning them.
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Yep. Noticed it too. My previous Scirocco was a nightmare for blackened chrome exhaust tips :angry:
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Agreed our Scirocco was very bad....
I think you'll find the addition of port injectors along with the direct injectors have solved alot of the sooting problems. The EA888 Gen 2 engines do suffer with coke build up around the valves as there is no fuel washing the valve stems clean as the EA888 gen 2 only had direct injection.
Having 8 injectors is a major part of why the EA888 gen3 can produce big power from a stage 1 tune.
Ian
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I had a coil pack fail on my MK6 so replaced them all with the new revision.
My tips used to soot up but after the new coil packs were fitted they remain clean.
I haven't cleaned then in four weeks, about 1000 miles, and there is only a trace of soot in the inside.