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Offline andyr

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Re: Excess soot in exhaust?
« Reply #10 on: 25 April 2012, 12:22 »
Quote from: wigit on 25 April 2012, 11:56
Quote from: JoeGTI on 25 April 2012, 11:45
Nearly every GTI I see has completely black tail pipes. I used to keep mine fairly clean but they'd get sooty in no time.

Strangely the pipes on my GTD never get sooty (I'd have expected them to be worse!).

this tends to be the norm now, our mk5 has sooty tips as did my rocco (hence i went ceramic finish on my milltek)

Think DPF!
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Re: Excess soot in exhaust?
« Reply #11 on: 25 April 2012, 12:36 »
Thanks for the reply dudes, Ill ask him when i see him next..
 :cool:
As for the oil usage the 4/5 litres has been over the past few months since owning the car!
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Offline Mr GTD

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Re: Excess soot in exhaust?
« Reply #12 on: 25 April 2012, 17:24 »
Quote from: JoeGTI on 25 April 2012, 11:45
Nearly every GTI I see has completely black tail pipes. I used to keep mine fairly clean but they'd get sooty in no time.

Strangely the pipes on my GTD never get sooty (I'd have expected them to be worse!).

Nearly every GTI I see seems to suffer with this problem but like you said Joe the GTDs(mine anyway) doesn't suffer with this....I wud expect the diesels to be worse tho.

Seems to be the norm with the GTI's...
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Re: Excess soot in exhaust?
« Reply #13 on: 25 April 2012, 18:40 »
Mine get sooty too, I,m due a service in a couple of months time.
I was gonna mention about this, but after reading this post now
I dont need to.  :smiley:
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Re: Excess soot in exhaust?
« Reply #14 on: 25 April 2012, 19:48 »
A lot of the Mk5 GTI engines are known to use oil, how much though varies. It will tell you in the manual acceptable oil consumption per mile, so chances are yes it's using oil but it's within the manufacturers spec.

Sooty pipes are due to the way TSI units burn fuel during the warm up process, so I wouldn't worry about that.
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Re: Excess soot in exhaust?
« Reply #15 on: 25 April 2012, 21:16 »
I have noticed the soot problem with the ED35....My brother in law bought a GTD just after me and he doesn't have any soot on the exhaust..he must be a petrol prob... :angry:
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Re: Excess soot in exhaust?
« Reply #16 on: 25 April 2012, 22:34 »
Quote from: Murrayedition35 on 25 April 2012, 21:16
I have noticed the soot problem with the ED35....My brother in law bought a GTD just after me and he doesn't have any soot on the exhaust..he must be a petrol prob... :angry:

Phil, get some pics of your brother inlaws GTD.... :wink: :wink: nudge nudge!
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Re: Excess soot in exhaust?
« Reply #17 on: 26 April 2012, 07:46 »
You's are a helpful bunch.. cheers  :grin:
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Offline R32UK

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Re: Excess soot in exhaust?
« Reply #18 on: 26 April 2012, 11:06 »
I would get it checked to be safe. Mine died only 3 months after being in for a something else to be fixed... where they claimed to have topped up the oil. It the end the timing went but it was also very very low on oil at the time.  :smiley:
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Re: Excess soot in exhaust?
« Reply #19 on: 26 April 2012, 19:24 »
Will do..if I every get a photo without him in it cleaning the thing... :grin:
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