Hi guys. Not sure if this qualifies to go in the Safety Forum, but whatever happened sure would have hurt if it happened directed toward someone's eyes.
Was sitting at a stoplight a few days ago. A transit bus (25 passenger sort) came off the light from the other direction and just as it got right beside me, it was like a diesel bomb had gone off. Large cloud of black smoke, big boom, and my brand new car was peppered with something that looked like a cross between soot and gravel. A few photos of some of the "splats" almost look like they had some sort of grid or screen pattern. They washed off with only very slight residue or damage to the clearcoat.
I guess this was a violent occurrence of diesel regeneration? I would have thought that a commercial bus (or any other diesel vehicle) would have its exhaust directed somewhere other than right out the SIDE!!
Anyway, if you have anything that does diesel regeneration, beware that it might be dangerous, especially to eyes!
- Jay
Was sitting at a stoplight a few days ago. A transit bus (25 passenger sort) came off the light from the other direction and just as it got right beside me, it was like a diesel bomb had gone off. Large cloud of black smoke, big boom, and my brand new car was peppered with something that looked like a cross between soot and gravel. A few photos of some of the "splats" almost look like they had some sort of grid or screen pattern. They washed off with only very slight residue or damage to the clearcoat.
I guess this was a violent occurrence of diesel regeneration? I would have thought that a commercial bus (or any other diesel vehicle) would have its exhaust directed somewhere other than right out the SIDE!!
Anyway, if you have anything that does diesel regeneration, beware that it might be dangerous, especially to eyes!
- Jay