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 Tue 8 Dec 15 13:57 
 Homemade smoke screen driver faces jail - VxFan
A driver from Carmarthenshire has been warned he could be jailed after deliberately releasing smoke from his engine during a police chase.

He flicked a switch in his Peugeot 309 near Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire to release a "colossal" amount of exhaust smoke.

tinyurl.com/nf2dkdf - The Telegraph
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 Tue 8 Dec 15 15:22 
 Homemade smoke screen driver faces jail - Cliff Pope
Not me, honestly.

Years ago I had an old banger that did this automatically whenever I pulled away. But I don't think police would have found it much of a challenge to catch me, even with the smoke screen.
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 Tue 8 Dec 15 15:26 
 Homemade smoke screen driver faces jail - Ted

Good wheeze for making tailgaters back off a bit.
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 Tue 8 Dec 15 15:31 
 Homemade smoke screen driver faces jail - Alanovich
>> Not me, honestly.
>>

That leaves Harleyman then. And my mum. Don't think she's hiding a Peugeot 309 anywhere (there is a Wolsely 1500 and an MGB Roadster in the garage, though). So it must be Harleyman. Thought he was on the beers in Reading?
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 Wed 9 Dec 15 01:18 
 Homemade smoke screen driver faces jail - Harleyman
Thought he was on the beers in Reading?
>>

Not till next May. And it wasn't me either; one or two of my bikes are prone to marking their territory but they're Harleys, and it's Indians that do smoke signals.
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 Tue 8 Dec 15 16:31 
 Homemade smoke screen driver faces jail - Manatee
He didn't think it through. The policeman followed the smoke. If he had turned it off when the copper was unsighted by the smoke he might have got away.

The interesting bit in the story was at the end -

"He said the smoke machine had been designed to get rid of moles.

James Hartson, prosecuting, pointed out that moles lived underground but Chaplin said that during normal usage a pipe would be connected to the end of the exhaust and pushed into the molehill."

Presumably the imitation firearm was for frightening the moles if they popped their heads up.
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 Tue 8 Dec 15 17:10 
 Homemade smoke screen driver faces jail - Robin O'Reliant
Well it weren't me either, and I only live 12 miles away. My old Mondeo diesel could push out a fair bit of the black stuff when it was on it's last legs, as a shed tugger found one day when I hit the red line when shooting past after being stuck behind him for mile after mile.
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 Wed 9 Dec 15 01:34 
 Homemade smoke screen driver faces jail - Armel Coussine
>> My old Mondeo diesel could push out a fair bit of the black stuff when it was on it's last legs,

Even a quite new diesel under very heavy throttle would make smoke, especiallly in humid conditions... remember being appalled by the spectacle in the rv mirrors of my old man's 205 when I was 'making progress' one wettish night.
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 Wed 9 Dec 15 01:44 
 Homemade smoke screen driver faces jail - VxFan
>> Even a quite new diesel under very heavy throttle would make smoke, especiallly in humid
>> conditions...

No smoke at all from the exhaust of my Astra diesel. I can even rub my finger around the end of the exhaust pipe and it'll still be clean. I guess the DPF and all the other stuff is doing its job correctly. Even if I boot it with a car behind me at night, you see nothing in the other car's headlights.
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 Wed 9 Dec 15 02:01 
 Homemade smoke screen driver faces jail - Armel Coussine
>> Even if I boot it with a car behind me at night, you see nothing in the other car's headlights.

Oooh, ponce ponce...

more seriously, something to do with new generation diesels I guess, 30+ years of development since then.
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 Tue 8 Dec 15 22:57 
 Homemade smoke screen driver faces jail - VxFan
>> Presumably the imitation firearm was for frightening the moles if they popped their heads up.

A real one didn't work for Jasper Carrot.

youtu.be/fePU5CIHpas?t=4m08s

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 Wed 9 Dec 15 12:50 
 Homemade smoke screen driver faces jail - Cliff Pope

>>
>> "He said the smoke machine had been designed to get rid of moles.
>>

I have done that. Plagued by moles one year I tried connecting old hoover snakes to the tractor exhaust and buried the other end in a molehill. I ran the engine with the choke pulled out so that it produced a lot of smoke, and there were satisfying puffs of smoke emerging from all the other hills.
It's hard to say though whether it made any difference. Nothing much does.
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 Wed 9 Dec 15 15:39 
 Homemade smoke screen driver faces jail - Armel Coussine
Remember a Golf GTi, high-mileage but still extremely capable, that had worn valve guides. I think it was an 8v engine, not 16v.

After cruising down a long hill near here on the overrun one day, I booted it as soon as the three-quarter-mile straight opened up at the bottom. To my horror it laid out a blanket smoke-screen thing until I took my foot off the gas. It wasn't used to being booted and was showing its displeasure as you might say...
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 Wed 9 Dec 15 15:53 
 Homemade smoke screen driver faces jail - madf
When a student I bought a 1953 Rover 75 for £45.. (c 1967.) Very rusty but ok. But in did 200 miles/pint of oil.

My brother and I decided the rings were carbonned up so injected Redex into each cylinder and left it to soak for 24 hours. Then replaced plugs after turning over on starter with rags on spark plug holes to absorb surplus Redex. And drove it down teh hill to main road - this was darkest Banffshire - |Scotland.

When the exhaust warmed up it left a trail of bluish grey smoke 50 feet tall, 20 feet wide for half a mile.. It was a still calm day so it stayed put in the valley.

It burned no oil after that tho! So it worked...
Last edited by: madf on Wed 9 Dec 15 at 15:54
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 Wed 9 Dec 15 15:59 
 Homemade smoke screen driver faces jail - Armel Coussine
Good stuff Redex. Sort of laxative for engines though, effects may include farting and diarrhoea...
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 Wed 9 Dec 15 16:43 
 Homemade smoke screen driver faces jail - VxFan
Riding along the A34 one Monday morning, on the way to college, the rubber seal let go between the gearbox and rotary disc valve on my old Yamaha FS1E "Fizzy". Covered all 4 lanes of the A34 in blue smoke. Quite funny it was until I went to get off the A34 at Abingdon and suddenly realised loads more gearbox oil had dumped itself all over the rear tyre from the engine breather pipe. Quite how I didn't fall off the bike when I went round the roundabout is anyone's guess.

It didn't smoke so much on the return journey in the evening because by then the oil level had dropped below the split rubber seal. The wet clutch was slipping a bit though.
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