Originally Posted By: BigJohn
Originally Posted By: edyvw
Originally Posted By: TiredTrucker
Agree, the "rolling coal" thing is somewhat stupid, but it is not a very common situation. Most folks that disabled or deleted various aspects of diesel emissions are not into that game. Any time I have been motivated to mess with emissions stuff on a diesel, it has been primarily to disable EGR, which causes a host of unintended consequences. Diesels actually were starting to get better emissions just from better designs and ECM control. Putting EGR on caused excessive soot loading of the engine and caused its own little version of rolling coal. Diesels were starting to become pretty clean, in regards to smoke particulates, but EGR screwed that up. Hence, then gooberment decided that DPF's were needed to clean up the mess they created. If they had just gone with DEF/SCR to begin with, we might have been able to avoid a lot of this nonsense.
Actually rolling coal is a big problem. I see once a day at least some young guys in pick up truck running coal. CO is pushing now law to put hefty penalties on that. Ask me, I would take away registration.
Looking at BMW, it is not that DPF is the problem. You say DEF/SCR would be enough. Actually, most problems BMW model I have is related to DEF system, not EGR, not SCR, not DPF. You will always have cars that have good parts like DPF (meaning: they invest in product) or cars that just have slew of problems, including DPF.
I didn't ever notice Colorado passing any legislation against "smoky exhausts". And I don't see them doing it any time soon. A law like this is akin to the idiotic law of 15 round magazines in guns. No peace keeper in the state is going to enforce that law.....unless the theft/robbery suspect is caught red-handed with a 15+ round magazine. For instance, what year models are they going to include and not include???? What a 1989 Ford Power Stroke is free of the law, but the 1990 has to be compliant? Good luck on that one. Not a cop in the state is going to pull over any of those trucks....except maybe the retard law enforcement types that have to answer to the Denver County Attorney, or Boulder/Aspen Enviro-Tards.
Anyway, I will eventually be a part of the crowd, just as soon as my warranty expires on my EcoDiesel. I will "upgrade" my plates to Farm and Ranch, jerk out all the emissions [censored] and begin to get 35mpg. There's a HUGE debate platform for the argument of what is better or worse on the environment....a diesel with all the emission that gets 24mpg and one without all that [censored] that gets 33-35mpg. (yes, there are reports of the EcoDiesel with everything striped getting 35mpg) Heck, my brother has a 2004 Dodge 3500 Cummins that is straight-piped getting up to 28 MPG.
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State patrol and police is already attending training for that. Pretty much if you tempered with EGR, DPF etc. you will be ticketed. In El Paso county to register diesel now requires manual inspection of EGR assembly by person from department of health. So when I got X5 35d, guy actually opened hood, took out cover and inspected EGR assembly.
I was thinking to get rid of SCR system (would keep DPF), but they are moving to more complex emission testing in new facilities.
My take: expect very soon laws to get really strict on that. Basically, you will have to run whatever your truck came with. 1989 Ford will have to run whatever ran in 1989.
As for coal runners, I think that is not issue for emission testing facilities, but psychiatry.
By the way, those enviro-tards comprise majority in the State, so who gives a [censored] about what some guy that uses smoke to compensate for something else thinks.