Andrew McIntyre
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Well Hiya folks.
I've been ****ed off for a couple of days, but now I'm happy again.
My TD4's been smoking a bit for a while now, not badly but grey noticeable smoke. I had a longish trip coming up for a wedding, (around 240 miles away) so I thought it was probably time to change the oil, oil filter and air filter before I went. Did the oil a couple of weeks before, and the air filter the day before.
On our way down it still smoked a bit, but not badly so, however, on the way back home yesterday, it got really bad and at points I was laying down a grey smoke screen on the M25, not good! As I proceeded it got worse and worse and at times under pressure uphill got really quite black. (very embarrassing).
I struggled home, going as easy as I could on the throttle, and next day had a look to see if any hoses were split or collapsing, but all seemed OK. While I was looking for anything obvious, I took off the sensor plug on the intake hose and give it a spray of contact and switch cleaner, don't really know why, maybe I'd read something here on the forum. I then phoned a localish independent landy garage to ask then if I could pop in for them to have a look, they said OK so I set off to see them. Bugger me! she went like a good un and no smoke to be seen I gave it some stick uphill and clean as a whistle. Guess it was just as simple as cleaning the contacts, and probably saved me a ton of money. Just thought I tell you, as it isn't always as expensive as you might think.
I've been ****ed off for a couple of days, but now I'm happy again.
My TD4's been smoking a bit for a while now, not badly but grey noticeable smoke. I had a longish trip coming up for a wedding, (around 240 miles away) so I thought it was probably time to change the oil, oil filter and air filter before I went. Did the oil a couple of weeks before, and the air filter the day before.
On our way down it still smoked a bit, but not badly so, however, on the way back home yesterday, it got really bad and at points I was laying down a grey smoke screen on the M25, not good! As I proceeded it got worse and worse and at times under pressure uphill got really quite black. (very embarrassing).
I struggled home, going as easy as I could on the throttle, and next day had a look to see if any hoses were split or collapsing, but all seemed OK. While I was looking for anything obvious, I took off the sensor plug on the intake hose and give it a spray of contact and switch cleaner, don't really know why, maybe I'd read something here on the forum. I then phoned a localish independent landy garage to ask then if I could pop in for them to have a look, they said OK so I set off to see them. Bugger me! she went like a good un and no smoke to be seen I gave it some stick uphill and clean as a whistle. Guess it was just as simple as cleaning the contacts, and probably saved me a ton of money. Just thought I tell you, as it isn't always as expensive as you might think.