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How to make sense of your diesel engine black smoke signals

bus emitting black smoke

A bus emitting black smoke from its exhaust in Abidjan on September 15, 2016.

Photo credit: AFP

Thirsty engines and black smoke

smoking cars

Stopping the black smoke from diesel engines will reduce your fuel consumption.

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