Hello, I have just bought a 1.8tddi (my first diesel) which seems to
me to be a bit smoky, it's not severe, you can just see it in daylight
but you can see it a lot more at night with others headlights behind,
cruising along its fine - no smoke, but when you accelerate (and you
don't have to floor it) you can see the grey smoke. I've just come in
from testing it with the EGR valve vacuum pipe disconnected. It did
seem different but not in a good way, basically it turned into a
transit van, the engine seemed a lot nosier but the smoke was still
the same. I've taken the turbo side intercooler pipe off to see if it
was more oily than it should be but it seems fine.
I'm not sure what to do next, any suggestions?

Rob