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Subject:Re: Water from tailpipe
From:Karl Wolz
Date:Mon, 4 Mar 2002 07:04:12 -0700

This is why five minute trips to the grocery store play hell with exhaust
systems.  They're left with liquid water inside the muffler to rust it away.

Karl Wolz

> Completely normal.
> Burning any hydrocarbon (like gasoline) produces water.  At normal
> operating temperature it and the surrounding gases are hot enough that
> the water molecules disperse into the air as humidity without getting a
> chance to condense like they do while the car is warming up.
>
> Larry A.
> Chicago  0 F  this morning