Diesel Soot on bumper - White 150 series

[masso Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close masso]

Small issue.. but an annoying one...does anyone else with a light coloured 150 D4D get soot all up the rear bumper? About to drop into local muffler shop to get a downturned exhaust tip... but wonder if anyone has done before?

[wifecallsmegrumpy Member Find all posts View Profile Close wifecallsmegrumpy]

Yeah I hate it too. My first diesel and it's a pain but comes off easy enough. I think the negative pressure created when driving the car will always see some particles deposited on the back somewhere. Interested to see if your downturned exhaust makes a difference.

[Riv39 Advanced Member Find all posts View Profile Close Riv39]

+1 par for the course unfortunately. Cleans up easy anyway and I recokon you will still get after the down turned exhaust for teh reasons explained abovre.

[ptnlinda Member Find all posts View Profile Close ptnlinda]

I had Hilux SR5 before Prado and it did exaclty the same thing. Had a turn down extension welded onto exhaust and problem solved. Haven't gotten round to having the Prado done yet but will do in view of success after doing Hilux.

[reggie426 Member Find all posts View Profile Close reggie426]

It's the fuel, cars in Europe don't suffer from it. Apparently our diesels not refined enough and some manufacturers won't release their diesel models in aus because of it.

[Riv39 Advanced Member Find all posts View Profile Close Riv39]

Reggie, interesting comment given the amount of diesel that is now imported particularly in NSW.

[MidLifeCrisis Out of control poster! Find all posts View Profile Close MidLifeCrisis]

Try running a chip, she dirties up a lot quicker on the pewter (Prado silver).....

[Winesy Junior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Winesy]

Yeah I get heaps on mine,more when the chip was installed.

[reggie426 Member Find all posts View Profile Close reggie426]

Not sure Riv39, just what I hear. In WA apparently they refine the diesel more for overseas but we get the crud, but this is what I'm told from mechanics and guys who work at bp refinery here

[reggie426 Member Find all posts View Profile Close reggie426]

I think ours is refined to 45 or something and European minimum is 51? All I know is every diesel vehicle in aus does it, not just Prados. We have new white d22 navaras at work that are covered in it all over the tailgates, and I've seen countless BMW x5's covered in it which makes me smile.

[halfpastfour Member Find all posts View Profile Close halfpastfour]

I travel to Europe regularly and one thing you notice is that no diesels produce any black smoke, even trucks. This is because of the higher quality fuel and stronger emissions standards. Also there are a lot more diesel vehicles over there than here, in most countries they are more popular than petrol engines.

[Riv39 Advanced Member Find all posts View Profile Close Riv39]

I travel to Europe regularly and one thing you notice is that no diesels produce any black smoke, even trucks. This is because of the higher quality fuel and stronger emissions standards. Also there are a lot more diesel vehicles over there than here, in most countries they are more popular than petrol engines.

That's because diesel fuel is cheaper over there as it should be here.

[reggie426 Member Find all posts View Profile Close reggie426]

Actually the fuel price is much dearer in Europe, diesel's about €1.60-€1.70 a litre, just over $2 aus. Even petrol's dear, cost me $100 to fill up a golf gti in England. When I came back I've never complained about fuel prices in Aus again!

[halfpastfour Member Find all posts View Profile Close halfpastfour]

Generally Fuel prices in the UK are the same in pounds as they are here in Aussie dollars, has been for about 10 years, so if diesel is around $1.50 here, it is usually around 1.50 pounds in the UK. Europe varies a lot, but generally it is between 1.20-1.80 Euro. One thing though, diesel is usually a fair bit cheaper than unleaded in most Eu countries, as it should be here like Riv39 said.

Their cars are also very efficient, it is probably a combination of the fuel quality and the newer engines. Last year I had an auto V8 Volkswagon Touareg, 4 people with luggage, drove 700kms in 2 days and was giving it a fair bit, 220kmh+ on the autobahn and a fairly heavy foot elsewhere and only used 65 litres for the 700kms, I was very impressed. Had a golf over there a couple of weeks ago, driving pretty much the same and it only got as high as 5 litres per 100kms for the entire time I had it.