Problems ahead??

mickyTDI

Veteran Member
Joined
Sep 21, 2003
Location
Longford, Ireland
Thought i'd post this here since the car is tuned with a DPF delete and tune. Car produces a healthy 200bhp (CR 170 turbo). Car runs great. However this morning on the warm up phase it was kicking out blasts of black smoke under normal acceleration. When the accelerator was gently pressed and picking up speed i could see swirls of black smoke coming up in the rear view mirror and small clouds left hovering behind me :confused:

Engine sounded normal and i didn't notice any power loss etc. Once it got to full temperature it stopped doing it and was fine for the rest of the day and no loss of power. Any ideas what was going on?
 

GT Beetle

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Joined
Aug 2, 2015
Location
B.C Canada
TDI
Black 98 N Beetle
wonder if your car burns out its catalytic convertor .. by design. Just a guess I know some diesels have the feature...

Could be a sensor is unplugged / not seated properly.
 
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