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US EPA confirms widespread emission tampering in diesel pickups

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news: US EPA confirms widespread emission tampering in diesel pickups

The report includes state- and county-level results based on a review of over 150,000 unique invoices containing delete tuning or hardware. These invoices cover sales of delete parts in all 50 states and approximately 83% of counties in the United States. The collected evidence also shows that approximately 50% of tampering occurs when vehicles are three years of age or less, and over 85% of tampering occurs by the time vehicles are eight years old.

The report focuses on delete tuners installed in Class 2b and 3 heavy pickup trucks, such as the Chevrolet Silverado and Dodge Ram 2500. However, such devices have been also installed in other types of vehicles. The EPA believes that this conduct occurs within most or all categories of vehicles and engines, including commercial trucks, passenger vehicles, pickup trucks, motorcycles, forestry equipment and agricultural equipment.

People tamper vehicles and engines for a variety of reasons. Some remove emissions controls to avoid the cost and time required to maintain emissions controls, while others tamper to increase fuel economy or power, or to customize their vehicle. Emission tampering devices are commonly available from many, usually smaller size, suppliers.

The Weird Story of the Great Truck Nuts War

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Balls Out: The Weird Story of the Great Truck Nuts War

One day, almost a decade ago, a middle-aged man and woman walked into Tombyll Plastics in San Bernardino, California. The man introduced himself to the floor manager as Bozzy Willis. He turned to the fake testicles hanging on the wall.

"I wanna buy some of them balls."

Chad Tombyll, the owner and proprietor of the injection molding facility, came out to talk the deal over with Bozzy Willis. But when they met, the man with the strange name looked familiar.

EPA Shuts Down Shops Who β€œDelete Diesel Trucks”

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EPA Shuts Down Shops Who β€œDelete Diesel Trucks”

Up until now, shops were able to get away with removing the devices under the guise of them being for β€œrace use only.”

However, the EPA certainly isn’t stupid. They are very aware that these β€œrace use only” vehicles have been finding their way to the streets. Because of that, they have now deemed any tampering with the emissions devices will be completely illegal.

It’s hard to pin down exactly how many diesel shops have been hit. However, from what we understand, the EPA has been making its rounds. These rounds will restrain the shops from selling tuning devices that tamper with the systems. Just as an example, as a part of a recent settlement, one diesel shop was permitted from selling current tuning devices and will need to prove that their future tuning devices won’t violate the emissions standards.

I think it's stupid to enforce emissions limits in areas that are in-compliance with emission standards.

Huge Burnouts Until the Drag Slicks Blow and Fire Starts

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We do burnouts for about 30 minutes until the truck just can’t do any more, overheated motor, boiling coolant, axles on fire οΏ½οΏ½ #CLOUDMAKERS Music from Epidemic Sound.

I always wondered how they made clouds.