Comment on Ebay Could Owe $1.9 Billion in Fines for Allowing Sale of 343,000 Emissions Defeat Devices
eddietrax@dmv.social 8 months ago
Saw one of these for the first time in our red neck of the woods. First thought when I saw all that black smoke coming out of that BBQ smoke stack was “how did that pass emissions?” Now I know why. Yuck
ikidd@lemmy.world 8 months ago
That’s less about removed emissions devices than a “performance” tune. A truck without a DPF isn’t going to shit out black smoke unless some yahoo has a tuner that dumps fuel in that doesn’t combust fully.
phoenixz@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
Which they do on purpose just to spite electrical car drivers; rolling coal, climate change isn’t real, god is real and HE would never allow that, yadda yadda! Assholes be assholes.
havokdj@lemmy.world 8 months ago
An EGR delete WILL let you push out black smoke on a stock tune, but it won’t let you “roll coal” as they call it, it’ll only do it if you gas it real hard and even then, it’ll just be a puff.
ikidd@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Exactly. You have to really be trying to make a properly tuned engine shit out smoke, or bad rings. Detuning for power is what smokes, and then you have these chucklefucks that specifically set up the engine to roll coal. I think people that do that should be put in a sealed room with a hose to the exhaust of their rigs and someone revs it until the fuel tank is empty.