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This is my first post, so sorry if someone has discussed this before
Got my brand new Kia 1.5 CRDi Graphite in May this year for just under £10K
It's no Ferrari, but it's quite nice to drive, if a bit too light on the steering for my liking.
It pulls to the left slightly, but I've noticed that to go straight ahead you have to have the stearing wheel slightly to the right...so it's most likely a tracking problem. Unfortunately, I found out this is not covered under warranty after the first 500 miles/month!
Anyway, the thing that concerns me most is that when I put my foot down, quite a lot of smoke comes out of the exhaust. I thought this was just beacuse the car was new, however, even after 10K+ miles, it's still doing it. It's not very noticeable in the daytime, but you really see it at night when you have a car behind you and you put your foot down!
I noticed in the manual it says something about getting white smoke from the exhaust if the fuel has too high a sulphur content. It says something about a DPM unit? or something like that being damaged if you use high sulphur diesel, but does not explain what it is.
I always use Shell fuel, so the fuel quaility should be good.
Has anyone else noticed this?

Got my brand new Kia 1.5 CRDi Graphite in May this year for just under £10K
It's no Ferrari, but it's quite nice to drive, if a bit too light on the steering for my liking.
It pulls to the left slightly, but I've noticed that to go straight ahead you have to have the stearing wheel slightly to the right...so it's most likely a tracking problem. Unfortunately, I found out this is not covered under warranty after the first 500 miles/month!
Anyway, the thing that concerns me most is that when I put my foot down, quite a lot of smoke comes out of the exhaust. I thought this was just beacuse the car was new, however, even after 10K+ miles, it's still doing it. It's not very noticeable in the daytime, but you really see it at night when you have a car behind you and you put your foot down!
I noticed in the manual it says something about getting white smoke from the exhaust if the fuel has too high a sulphur content. It says something about a DPM unit? or something like that being damaged if you use high sulphur diesel, but does not explain what it is.
I always use Shell fuel, so the fuel quaility should be good.
Has anyone else noticed this?