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deslynam
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My 'R has started putting out sooty black smoke when accelerating on light throttle and not boosting!
It does it at all speeds, but once it starts boosting it runs fine :?!
When this happens, the engine becomes hesitant and stutters a bit.
Even did it whilst stationary, with my better half giving it a few revs - and it popped through the exhaust which it never normally would without moving.
It started whilst on the return leg of a 2hour journey, can't say I've noticed it before, although I have occasionally had the bit of grey smoke come out of the back when accelerating hard, which from experience/reading up on here is just the petrol smoke.
The oil pressure has been ok according to the gauges (hovers around 3 whilst driving normally). Level & temp is fine as well, currently using Millers 10W40 fully synth.
The only thing that's changed is that before the journey I put 25L of SUL from the local independant petrol station, rather then the usual Tesco 97Ron or Optimax it would usually have.
I'm thinking/hoping it's just the pants fuel, perhaps contaminated with moisture or crud as it's unlikely to be a popular choice at this particular garage?
Anyone else got any ideas? Have been thinking about getting it checked out again at Powerstation soon anyway, guess sooner rather than later would be a good idea
It does it at all speeds, but once it starts boosting it runs fine :?!
When this happens, the engine becomes hesitant and stutters a bit.
Even did it whilst stationary, with my better half giving it a few revs - and it popped through the exhaust which it never normally would without moving.
It started whilst on the return leg of a 2hour journey, can't say I've noticed it before, although I have occasionally had the bit of grey smoke come out of the back when accelerating hard, which from experience/reading up on here is just the petrol smoke.
The oil pressure has been ok according to the gauges (hovers around 3 whilst driving normally). Level & temp is fine as well, currently using Millers 10W40 fully synth.
The only thing that's changed is that before the journey I put 25L of SUL from the local independant petrol station, rather then the usual Tesco 97Ron or Optimax it would usually have.
I'm thinking/hoping it's just the pants fuel, perhaps contaminated with moisture or crud as it's unlikely to be a popular choice at this particular garage?
Anyone else got any ideas? Have been thinking about getting it checked out again at Powerstation soon anyway, guess sooner rather than later would be a good idea
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