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458 Black watery stuff dripping out of exhaust .

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  1. billwann

    billwann Formula Junior

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    Anyone else ever see a black watery stuff dripping out of the exhaust on startup ? looks like soot mixed with water to me but not sure .
     
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  2. Tireman

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    Normal
     
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  3. Gh21631

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    Really?
     
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  4. tfazio

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    Completely normal! Tireman is 100% Correct.
     
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  5. Rbwiii

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    Yes...it's condensation mixed with engine soot...normal
     
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  6. gt1995

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    My 360 does this routinely as well. I try to wipe up below the tips after each drive and have PPF on the rear. Under. Wipes right off.
     
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  7. markcs

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    Make sure you don't start up with the misses standing behind with white pants on
    happened to me
    Not happy Wifey
     
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  8. VAF84

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    Glad you asked this. Funny, because I just noticed it this weekend on my F430.


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  9. boobernackle

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    My thoughts exactly.
     
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    I put a black door mat on the garage floor longitudinally under the exhaust tips. Now a clean garage floor and unnoticeable.
     
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  11. daflk

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    My 458 makes a black soot spot on the wall, is that normal too?


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    2018 488. Normal. I set up a large cardboard “blast shield” for cold starts in the garage. Captures most of the nasty stuff.


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  13. italiafan

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    I wish you had a picture of that! Hilarious.
     
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    very normal, and if u have a white wall behind it, gets splattered onto the walls like art lol
     
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  16. Golattus

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    These 458 have an air injection through a pump on the headers to clean the air for pollution measures proposes that creates mentioned soot specially when engine cold.

    You can remove this system and will be healthy for your engine but you will have a problem at tests.
     
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  17. Viperjoe

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    Hum? If the air pump is used to facilitate oxidation of hydrocarbons in catalytic converter, that's 70's technology.
     
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  18. Golattus

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    Yet
    That's it.
     
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