Interesting. I'll check mine and let you know.
Nice Rich! Although I moved here a couple of months ago from the DC area (I'm military), I was born and raised in Tampa, so it's great to be back home.I just noticed you were pulling onto Bayshire Blvd....I live in Tampa too. Nice to see a fellow Cadenza driver in Tampa!
Thanks for the confirmation, not happy about it at all, it's embarrassing to me, like I'm driving a hoopty.Yup can confirm, black smoke here as well.
Yup very embarrassing, almost as bad as the rattle every start up :|Thanks for the confirmation, not happy about it at all, it's embarrassing to me, like I'm driving a hoopty.
Well I tried mine out this afternoon and, yes, I got a nice black cloud. I got to thinking, in "the old days" (yes, I am older than dirt) we used to have a common expression like "It needs to have the carbon blown out of it". Now this was not a factor for me when I was driving my Oldsmobile 442, as it saw redline as often as possible. Well, I'm a little older and cars have changed. I look at the Tach on the Cadenza and it always seems to be 1500-2000 RPM. My wife would not "Punch it out" if you paid her! I guess what I'm saying is that for me, I'm going to "Blow the carbon out" with some form of frequency. I'm sure there is some design feature of the GDI engine that contributes to this but I don't know how you would find this out. Let me know if you have any ideas, hopefully ones with some science behind it.Anyone getting any black smoke on hard acceleration?
Anyone else's doing this?
Well I tried mine out this afternoon and, yes, I got a nice black cloud. I got to thinking, in "the old days" (yes, I am older than dirt) we used to have a common expression like "It needs to have the carbon blown out of it". Now this was not a factor for me when I was driving my Oldsmobile 442, as it saw redline as often as possible. Well, I'm a little older and cars have changed. I look at the Tach on the Cadenza and it always seems to be 1500-2000 RPM. My wife would not "Punch it out" if you paid her! I guess what I'm saying is that for me, I'm going to "Blow the carbon out" with some form of frequency. I'm sure there is some design feature of the GDI engine that contributes to this but I don't know how you would find this out. Let me know if you have any ideas, hopefully ones with some science behind it.
Same here. My wife is the primary driver. I made a huge tactical mistake!Thanks for the feedback. My wife is the primary driver of the Cadenza and never really opens it up. Since I primarily drive it on the weekends, I'm going to make it a point to open it up at least once. Hopefully, over time, the amount of black smoke decreases.
If anyone else has any ideas, please offer them up.
I love how the following car slaloms to avoid your cloud...
I've seen this on my car very regular. Also seen it on many other cars, BMW, Chrysler, Hyundai, Honda...just to name a few, pretty much anyone that stomps on it in a newer vehicle there's a choke of black.
I guess when I drive mine, I drive like a madman all the time. I have never seen black exhaust like that from my car... I have struggled to keep the exhaust tips shiny and not all black and dusty.
I use Mystery Oil as my fuel additive, but with the wife driving the Cadenza more often now, I might give it a few weeks then hammer it and see what it does.
Why do we all let the ladies drive the car? We need to stand up and take the keys! Any volunteers?![]()