your phone is connected via bluetooth, right?
EPA to Start Aggressively Enforcing Emission Defeat Devices
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your phone is connected via bluetooth, right?
Actually no it wasn't. I forgot it on the counter on this last trip. But the warning light came on about 20 minutes after I left the house (10:00ish) and when I got home there was a email on my phone from Dodge (Uconnect or whatever they call the service) received at 10:27am that read "ALERT: Action needed on your 2019 Dodge Challenger!"
Now the car can apparently be it's own wifi hotspot but I do not pay for or have that service enabled...
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you're saying you have that super awesome car and you don't even let your phone use the hands free or streaming or maps capabilities?
nah i don't buy that.
but lets say they do their own cellular service or even satphone thing.
you can fix that with tin foil.
nah i don't buy that.
but lets say they do their own cellular service or even satphone thing.
you can fix that with tin foil.
Huzzah! More government bureaucracy to cripple state budgets and fight an insignificant "problem".
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1. Interested to see big names on there like Magnaflow. It says primarily for selling cat deletes. Does it not directly say "for off road use only" ? How do they determine then it is a company selling the products fault?
2. As I have said many times on here, modern cars at least, you can make a ton of power through cats. Everyone forgets gt500, hellcat have over 700 HP stock with cats. All the factory turbo engines out there people are turning up boost and fuel and it is fine. To stay on this trend, there should be aftermarket cats that people can add to vehicles that will work on high HP applications. You can run a SCT tune or whatever and still pass a state OBD2 plug in inspection as long as all your emissions items are still running. Just keep the cats in...
The cars I always see driving around you can smell way down the highway are 4 cylinder ricer burner cars. Why would you remove the cat when you're making 150hp? These are the real idiots. Some guys, cannot run cats due to too much boost etc. These cars are not driving every day though. These are weekend, nice weather cars. They should have a special "regulation" that does not need to meet emissions.
3. All old cars are grandfathered in, If they really crack down, car community can just go to older cars and have no emissions.
4. I would like to see someone with a lot of money or fundraiser that has an older diesel, like a 7.3, that is deleted, pay for a professional study with the numbers, logic and everything in a formal paper. The study would be if you were the original or even second owner of a 25 year old deleted 7.3, although pollution in excess vs today diesels, is actually cleaner than buying a new vehicle every 5 years. The building of a new car pollutes and then of course driving it does too. So is it possible a keeping a vehicle for 25 years, even polluting more out of the exhaust, is actually cleaner in the long run? If it is true, then sue the EPA for that
2. As I have said many times on here, modern cars at least, you can make a ton of power through cats. Everyone forgets gt500, hellcat have over 700 HP stock with cats. All the factory turbo engines out there people are turning up boost and fuel and it is fine. To stay on this trend, there should be aftermarket cats that people can add to vehicles that will work on high HP applications. You can run a SCT tune or whatever and still pass a state OBD2 plug in inspection as long as all your emissions items are still running. Just keep the cats in...
The cars I always see driving around you can smell way down the highway are 4 cylinder ricer burner cars. Why would you remove the cat when you're making 150hp? These are the real idiots. Some guys, cannot run cats due to too much boost etc. These cars are not driving every day though. These are weekend, nice weather cars. They should have a special "regulation" that does not need to meet emissions.
3. All old cars are grandfathered in, If they really crack down, car community can just go to older cars and have no emissions.
4. I would like to see someone with a lot of money or fundraiser that has an older diesel, like a 7.3, that is deleted, pay for a professional study with the numbers, logic and everything in a formal paper. The study would be if you were the original or even second owner of a 25 year old deleted 7.3, although pollution in excess vs today diesels, is actually cleaner than buying a new vehicle every 5 years. The building of a new car pollutes and then of course driving it does too. So is it possible a keeping a vehicle for 25 years, even polluting more out of the exhaust, is actually cleaner in the long run? If it is true, then sue the EPA for that
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Its all about money. New vehicles = more tax, and licensing revenue.
Already done +10 years ago when someone proved a Hummer H2 was better for the environment then a Prius.
Essentially, lithium mining, battery production and cross pacific transportation outweighs fuel savings over the life of the vehicle.
Plenty of people state the same for Plug-In electrics. You are just moving the pollution to "Not In My Backyard" which is the corner stone of leftist policy.
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Oh I absolutely let my phone connect to the car.
What I'm saying is that last Saturday, when I went to the track, I was more focused on making sure I didn't forget my helmet and getting the dog to go outside so he wouldn't go in my house, that I forgot my phone on the counter....The check TPMS warning didn't go off until around 20 minutes later when I was well on down the road and when I got home there was an email on my phone that had been sent to me by Dodge-VHR within a few minutes of the warning going off that morning (while the phone was still sitting on my counter at the house)...
1. car detects bad thing
2. car tells phone to tell dodge
3. dodge processes message
4. dodge tells phone via text of bad thing
1 happened in your driveway, probably 2, 3 and 4 can happen while you're on the road.
They’re also coming after street cars converted to race cars.
Recognizing the Protection of Motorsports Act of 2019 (RPM Act) | SEMA
Probably not.
But you can buy the software and learn to tune yourself.
Recognizing the Protection of Motorsports Act of 2019 (RPM Act) | SEMA
Probably not.
But you can buy the software and learn to tune yourself.
Few reasons for that. First, it's easier to go after a few manufacturers than go after thousands of customers. Second, they know that disclaimer is bullshit and that the manufacturer knows what they're being used for. Third, and most importantly, the manufacturers have the cash to pony up for fines and the customers don't.
I think you are nuts if you don't think government won't sign that into law. The constitution has already been raped and pillaged as it is with gun rights. You damn well better be worried that they will do it. And car people sure AF won't rise up and start a war over it. Like everything else, they slowly eat away at it. The EPA is just another form of the freedoms being eaten away.
you're talking about signing a law that would end whole companies and require billions (maybe trillions) of what companies survived.
not a chance in hell.
Sounds like a Liberal Utopian of more people reliant on the generosity of government handouts. Kind and f exactly what the Left wants; more control.
No IT equipment was stolen in the making of this comment.
And you are underestimating the sheer brilliance (sarcasm) of the Democratic party and the subsidiaries they seem to control such as the EPA. Democrats have literally zero shits given for mass job loss. Canada is a great example and your Democrats idolize our politics.
Yes Trump is currently in power, my advice, don't get cocky.
Jokes on you when some of your states already have worse laws than we do for gun rights... I only say those things because I care... I HATE democrats and I HATE the EPA and these arbitrary laws. I just see things from a different perspective. A lot of yall are too hung up on 'cuz murica' to think it'll happen to you. You dont seem to see the long term war that the D's are waging and still gaining traction.sorry i can't hear you over loading my rifle
Outlawing the entire mod industry??? Pshh no biggie.
It really comes down to a complete breakdown of the system. Congress has abdicated their responsibility to legislate. Instead, authority has been delegated to agencies like the EPA that become "legislators" by their rule making. They are unaccountable to anyone. They also give political cover to politicians who no longer have to make rules.
This. This may or may not be a market I am very familiar with, we have dealt with many shops that we support that have been pestered by the 3 letter agency. I am intrigued By your last statement as we work very closely with every flash manufacture (including testing beta verisons, writing code, ect).
If there is a will, there is a way. I hope diesel tuning prices continue to increase.
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