If it's the 'smoke' your referring to then yes. It's the hot air meeting the cold air. That's assuming your in the UK where it's between 4-9 degrees at the moment. If you get thick clouds when your on the gas or blue/oil smell then your in trouble.
Petrol contains octane. Burn it in oxygen and you get
2 C8H18 + 25 O2 becomes 16 CO2 + 18 H2O
The CO2 warms the atmosphere. The H2O is water, which condenses in the cold air and forms steam.
Happens in all fuel burning engines, petrol, diesel, kerosene, food. That stuff trailing behind aircraft, its the same - condensed water vapour trails, or con-trails.
Yeah apologies I posted on my phone, didn't realise that I left bits out.
Well that's a relief, just wanted to make sure just seem to notice it a lot more in this car than any previous car ive had.
Thanks for the reply
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