New Bettle, Black Somke

New Bettle, Black Somke

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majesticproperti

Original Poster:

140 posts

252 months

Friday 3rd December 2004
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My wife has a 2000 bettle 2.0ltr. it seems to blow out a lot of black smoke more like carbon than oil as it is not buring to much. The car runs fine but at about 60 mph it gives a little judder and some times in the lower rev range.
Any Ideas whats causing this.

Andrew Noakes

914 posts

247 months

Friday 3rd December 2004
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Black smoke is excess fuel. I'm not sure what the injection system on one of those is like but maybe there's a faulty fuel injector or a sticking cold-start valve or something.

Marquis_Rex

7,377 posts

246 months

Friday 3rd December 2004
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Did she put diesel into it Instead of Petrol?


Could be a number of things, and as Andrew Noakes says, is most likely due to over fueling.
I saw a car behave in a similar manner - running super rich, and massively over fueling-washing the bores down, when it's MAF sensor had failed.