Just a quick sense check if I may, the tail pipes on my QV TCT (2015, just passed 10,000 miles) are completely black from soot all round, whereas I've noticed a lot of much older cars (not Alfa's) that have just a small soot mark at the bottom of the pipes.
Other QV drivers, how sooty are your pipes? Should I be concerned and does anyone have any idea what could be the cause?
I live in London and the majority of my driving is short journeys in traffic to and from work, although I do longer journeys as well - could that be a factor?
My GQV has under 2000kms so far so it is essentially still quite new, and it does have sooty exhaust pipes. I do frequent short trips, maybe it needs a good run to clear them.
Full on soot battle going on here too to keep the pipes shiny. I gave up eventually and figured the black look fitted in well with the matt grey paint and black wheels of the GQV LE.
My "BMW" Mini Cooper S (1.6 petrol with supercharger, 51K miles) tailpipes sootier than a very sooty thing. Been told that's the way they are!! :smash: I have to clean them every two weeks at least.
My Giulietta JTDM pipes shiny as a bright sparkly thing! (65k miles) :thumbup:
Mine is a 1.4 multiair with about 51k miles. The pie sooted up inside and round the rim and has to be cleaned regularly. Externally it needs cleaning because of road dirt but no soot. Not a problem as I treat it as part of routine car cleaning. There again I do it myself and don't use a local car wash, who won't give it that amount of attention, which may be why it would appear cleaner to the casual observer.
I have a GQV 2016 which I love...
Found this thread as I searched for this problem.. 8k in car is performing wonderfully but the tail pipe soot is a bore..
Also , had to swerve a 4x4 the other day and scraped my lovely turbine alloys on one side!
Any ideas on getting them back to new.? I understand they are diamond cut, local chips away won't touch them..?
If the damage is just on the rim, most allow wheel repairers should be able to repair the damage If the inside turbines are damaged, I suspect it would be cheaper to try find a second hand one from the wreckers or just buy a new one.
ive had the tips replaced on my mine with larger rolled chrome ones and they get black quickly. i have been called all the names under the sun from work colleagues and friends as i keep a alloy wheel brush in my boot to clean them when i want.
My colleagues haven't found the soft paintbrush I keep in my car for cleaning dust away from the toggle switches and crevices. A task I do when sitting at traffic lights or jams! And I'm not even that OCD about cleaning the car!!
Direct injection gasoline is creating far more soot than a port injected gasoline due to the fact that the mixture of air and fuel is less homogenoues. So all cars with direct injection have sooty exhausts. In the years to come it will not be a surprise if DI gasolines have some form of particulate filter.
Anyways dont worry about it.
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