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Mar 8^th, 2005 at 8:18am

Smoke2much Offline
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My car has a 1.9 Ltr Diesel lump in it. Recently it has started losing power and smoking more than I do when I go up any sort of hill. It's getting kind of embarrasing and I'm wondering if there is a simple fix that I'm missing.

Any advice gratefully received.

Will

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Reply #1 - Mar 8^th, 2005 at 8:23am

Craig. Offline
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sounds like the system needs cleaning. cant you buy an additive to go into the fuel tank?

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Reply #2 - Mar 8^th, 2005 at 8:35am

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Sounds like a cunning plan so I'll give it a go. Thanks Craig.

Will

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Reply #3 - Mar 8^th, 2005 at 8:38am

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Just so we are clear, i am not that good with cars, and i am just trying to pull on what we did with our old car when it had a simmilar problem. Hope you get it sorted, halfords should have something.

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Reply #4 - Mar 8^th, 2005 at 9:59am

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Hi Will, I drive a Opel Astra 1.7 TD. I've had the loosing power thing once too, especially uphill. It turned out to be the airflow-mass meter ( don't shoot me if the term isn't correct!). It's the device that mesures the air intake to calculate the dieselmixture needed. Going up it blocked and the electronics went into a back-up programmode, resulting in me only doing 90 km/h, gaspedal flat out. Replacing the faulty part solved that. Funny thing when you're a 800 km trip trough Germany, land of Opel, and no mechanic can tell what's wrong. Only my garage in Belgium could tell me what was wrong...

Hope this helps!

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Reply #5 - Mar 8^th, 2005 at 11:10am

eno Offline
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What colour is the smoke?......
How much?

If it's white and there isn't much then get it into a garage and get the head checked.
If it's white and starts to build up ... STOP!
If you are really unlucky and it turns black STOP and SWITCH OFF. If you keep running it WILL be terminal.

Worst case:
Smoke in a diesel engine is either oil or water mixing with the fuel ...... usually a head gasket problem not to bad if its only under stress (going up hill), if it starts on the flat then it's becomming terminal...... it might be expensive to fix and it will need fixing.
Best case:
It might be another and slightly easier problem to fix which is dirty injectors... the cleaner in the fuel should solve that .... if not then take it to a garage ... not as expensive as replacing a head/gasket.

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Reply #6 - Mar 8^th, 2005 at 3:27pm

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electronics messup... get one whitout electronic crap on it

And about smoke...
white smoke --> engine dead, as that's your cooling water being cooked out
black smoke --> oil leak or bad valve timing.

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Reply #7 - Mar 8^th, 2005 at 3:35pm

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Could just be that you forgot you hid your emergency fags in the exhaust and they ignited Grin

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Reply #8 - Mar 8^th, 2005 at 3:37pm

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Hi Will...(Smoke2Much)...!
Smoke...?

I don't call you "Fag-end" for nuffin'... Wink

...!

Give up the dreaded Weeds, and wind your window up, that'll stop the appearance of external smoke surrounding your motor car.... Grin

...!

Cheers Will... 8)...!

LOL...!

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