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Old 11-20-2004, 01:05 PM
psfred psfred is offline
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Diesel fuel is pretty variable -- what you put in the tank one week from the same station may not be what you get next week, and some fuels will give more smoke than others.

Lots of slow stop and go driving will result in excess smoke when you stand on it because soot is accumulating in the exhaust -- it all blows out at once when you wind it up under load. My brother's 300SDL is really bad about this since my sister-in-law is a fairly sedate driver.

Some smoke is normal, expecially on 61x engine. later ones smoke less.

These are great cars, enough so that most of us will put up with the maintenance and repair expensese of old ones!

Peter
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