Everyone knows what fixing their puppy entails. A similar thing happens when you take your Cummins diesel-equipped Ram truck in to be fixed, as Cummins is desperately trying to persuade some 630,000 owners of 2013-2018 Ram 2500 and 3500 pickups equipped with one of these engines to do.
The federal government says Cummins cheated federal emissions requirements – here we go again – which means the Cummins engines have been found to be not entirely compliant with federal emissions requirements. This effect of this noncompliance is trivial – in terms of any tangible harm done to “the environment,” let alone any actual people.
Former Attorney General Merrick Garland – who led the persecution of Cummins – claimed that “preliminary estimates suggest that defeat devices on some Cummins engines have caused them to produce thousands of tons of excess emissions of nitrogen oxides.”
It sounds serious.
But it is the fact of noncompliance that was and is the real affront, as it was about ten years ago when VW was discovered to be noncompliant. Extreme repercussions followed – grossly disproportionate to any actual harm caused, which was not only never proved, it never had to be proved. This detail ought to be important to reasonable people. How can there have been a crime when no one was harmed?
Ask the cop who just pulled you over for making an illegal U-turn.
We are of course dealing with affronts – to the authority of the government – and that is the very worst “crime” in the eyes of the government. More finely, in the eyes of the tiny handful – relative to the rest of the population – of people who control the enforcement mechanism of the government. They understand very well that any challenging of their authority must be met with severe repercussions else the rest of us might be more willing to question this authority.
Anyhow, Cummins has been hit with severe repercussions for its noncompliance, as VW was – to the tune of nearly $1.7 billion in fines so far – which of course Cummins will not pay as “Cummins” is just a company and so has no more ability to pay money than it has to breathe. It is the people who hold Cummins stock or work for the company or buy its products who will pay. They will lose money, perhaps their jobs. And people who buy anything made by Cummins going forward will pay more for it – because someone has got to pay.
This includes the roughly 630,000 people who own a 2013-2018 Ram 2500 or 3500 pickup equipped with a noncompliant Cummins diesel engine. It is now Cummins’ job to persuade them to bring their truck in to a Ram dealer for fixing – via a “software update.” This “update,” will of course not result in the trucks running better or getting better mileage. If it did do those things, Cummins would have “updated” them at the factory. This raises the obvious question – as well as the obvious answer, which is that the engines run better as they are, which is why they left the factory that way.
In fact, the “update” will make the “affected” trucks compliant – and that is a very different thing. It is not something that is of any detectable benefit to the owners of these trucks, which partially explains why Cummins is trying to wheedle the owners in for the fix by promising them gift bags that contains such things as “Cummins” baseball caps and embossed pens, along with additional warranty coverage. It echoes of the tactics used during the push to wheedle the hesitant during the “pandemic” to agree to get injected . . . by promising them a free donut.
Owners of the “affected” trucks are proving to be similarly hesitant to take the bait. They are not interested in reduced fuel efficiency and increased consumption of diesel exhaust fluid (DEF) which are two probable results of getting their perfectly-fine-running trucks fixed.
Which – again – is why Cummins is wheedling the owners of these trucks to bring them in for fixing. More finely, Cummins is doing this wheedling because it is threatened with more fines – on top of the nearly $1.7 billion already levied – if it is not successful in wheedling all (or nearly all) of the owners of these trucks into bringing them in for fixing. The “goal” – as Cummins has been forced to pursue it – is to get 85 percent of them fixed within three years.
An interesting aspect of this business is that Merrick Garland is no longer attorney general, Michael Regan is no longer head apparatchik at the EPA and Joe Biden is no longer fronting the presidency. Donald Trump is. He has used his executive power to do many things. Why not use them to end the persecution of Cummins over this noncompliance nonsense? Put another way, how about getting back to the need for harm – to actual people – to be established as fact via evidence as the basis for punishing anyone?
As opposed to punishing them for “cheating” the government – by affronting its authority? That would help to make America what it was again. Which is probably why it will never happen.
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Here’s the easy fix: kick the software and all the electronic controls to the curb in favor of a good old mechanical injection pump.
There’s plenty of old mechanical 855 “Big Cam” Cummins out there that have surpassed the million mile mark without any kind of major service. When interjecting the “logic and reason” mode of calculation, how many “modern” diesels have hit the scrapyard in comparison? Not to mention that the old mechanical engines tended to be equal, if not better than their newer counterparts on fuel consumption. Which is truly more “eco friendly”?
Seems to me that “environmentalism” has less to do with the physical environment and is more rooted in governmental control via optics.
If it’s software that needs “fixed” it’s nice to know they can’t/won’t just force it via the connected nature of today’s vehicles.
The worst/best part (depending on how you look at it) is, this “hesitance” about getting the upgrade (not to mention the aftermarket delete devices) pretty much proves that customers don’t actually want this crap, and the world is not actually ending as a result.
Which makes it all the more obvious how arbitrary petty and unnecessary these apparatchiks actually are.
Of course they are affronted! They might have to get real jobs! “Hesitate” away, gentlemen!
Also, not to mention it makes Dodge look stupid(er), for going for compliance instead of defiance.
Remember what happened to Colt?
“…and the world is not actually ending as a result.”
Exactly! What most people either don’t realize, or are deliberately tuning out, is that the world (and your life) IS going to end at some point. WHEN that will be, only God knows. And there is ABSOLUTELY NOTHING mankind can do to stop it! If we have to spend our lives fearing the end, then what’s the point of BEING ALIVE in the first place?
Since you bring up God, remember, the most common phrase in the Bible is “fear not” or some variation. When people try to use fear as a motivator they are not working for God but, for Satan. Know this and act accordingly.
Amen to that!
Mark my words, once EVs become the SOLE method of transportation, then power stations will be next on the chopping block. And yes, that includes hydroelectric, because “the wittle fishies”!
Bottom line, no more private transportation or (relatively) cheap energy for us peons!
Grok says:
was bosch involved?
Bosch provided a kind of “tool kit” for use with their high pressure fuel pumps and electronics. All of the European diesel manufacturers used the Bosch pumps. VM Motori, Mercedes, VW, etc. All the manufacturers were guilty of “tweaking” the software in one way or another. The determination of which company that got caught and made an example of was purely political. Or perhaps a little ethnic too.
(((AI))) is just programs written by the (((tribe))) to continue the destruction of Western Civilization.
The little bit of good they do is meant as cover for the evil they lie about.
With the Jews,
You ALWAYS lose….
YMMV….
As has been mentioned here by a number of commenters the first to lose will be Eric Peters and this website. Not “with the Jews”, but with the Jew-haters like you. You and your like have turned this website into a spit bowl. The prime example of what “libertarians” are all about. NAP, my ass
You are guilty of the NAP when you point your finger.
It is not hating Jews, it is what they do and it is not non-aggressive principal policy, jews kill people and they do it all of the time, what they are, which is pure evil.
What the matter is what the Jews do to you.
Hate the sinners, not the clueless stupid Jews.
They will never learn. Like you will never learn.
Hi AG,
This is the dilemma – for me, as a guy who wants to have and maintain a comments section where people can speak freely. But in doing so, one attracts destructive people who annoy the rest. There is a new example of this here which you have probably noticed because I can’t get rid of his cut-and-paste repetitive personal attacks fast enough because he creates new emails to create new accounts here so he can repost the same personal attacks I’ve already deleted over and over and over again. I just culled another six of these this morning. He does not get the message. Such people cannot be reasoned with or counted on to self-restrain. So, what do I do? Leave them free to almost literally shit all over everything? Mind, I am not deleting his posts because he expresses disagreement. I would never do that. But wht is the point of giving a forum to a guy who just wants to call me (and others) names?
It’s a difficult balance to maintain.
I feel your pain, Eric. and I don’t take these posts as a personal attack – I don’t care about the mentally deranged. As I stated before, I have been your reader for more than a decade. Because your website is unique and a great source of knowledge. Even before the comment section grew. And then it did grow and became itself a source of new knowledge out of many people’s personal experience. But over the last couple of years with almost every post on any subject the comment section gets sidetracked on one single ((question)). And it happened even before these people had me to troll them, or to troll me. It’s like they are mutually fellating on the subject for the sheer wicked pleasure of it.
It is very frustrating as everything here loses value as the result.
I understand the technical difficulty of keeping it clean, but perhaps if you state your preferred position, and step in more often to discourage these posts, it will greatly improve the quality of content.
I may disagree with you on subject in question, and some others, but you and I surely can have a thoughtful discussion. Frothing at the mouth and talking the shit like of the Coast-to-Coast radio depth of thought – it’s not a thoughtful discussion or “freedom of speech”. Which btw, as a libertarian you should know applies only to the government vs. people. There is no freedom of speech on private property which what your site is. Private rules rule. Do it.
Best,
AG
Thanks, AG –
I do not want to and do not plan to suppress anyone’s opinions. But going after people on a personal level and attacking whole groups of people is another matter. Most of us who come here understand this. Libertarian-minded people don’t like collectivism, after all. Nor “arguments” that consist of 6th grade-level name-calling.
It struggles to control speech.
The attempt disgusts me.
The first thing the Communist Bolshevik Jews did when they seized power in Russia was establish anti-Semitism laws, punishable by imprisonment or DEATH.
And you can just SMELL it itching for that, here. And it stinks.
“The first thing the Communist Bolshevik Jews did when they seized power in Russia was establish anti-Semitism laws, punishable by imprisonment or DEATH” — the product of your deranged mind. There was no such thing. Another lie, in the long line of other smears
AG is 100% a Jew, and 100% a liar.
Here’s the proof, Eric. Do with it what you will.
“Jews around the world celebrated 1917 when the Bolsheviks (Communists), led by Lenin and Trotsky, seized power in Moscow. The first legislative act that passed by the new legislature was the “anti-semitism act” This law, according the traditions of men, made it a criminal offense to defame Jews and Judaism. Even a joke about the Jews was classified as a hate crime punishable by ten years in prison. What a remarkable similar environment we see today in Western societies that are completely under Zionist Jewish control, where brave people like Alison Chabloz, Monika Schaefer or Hervé Ryssen have to face ritual Talmudic inquisitions which are disguised as pseudo legal constructs that serve justice.”
1917 anti-Semitism act. Look it up for yourselves. And see just what kind of a “person” this AG liar really is.
https://birthofanewearthblog.com/communism-was-created-by-jews-and-serves-only-their-interests/#:~:text=Jews%20around%20the%20world%20celebrated,to%20defame%20Jews%20and%20Judaism
I can provide even more links.
Now, watch AG run away.
Run, AG. RUN.
Now that I’ve owned you about the “1917 anti-Semitism act”, you run away like a little Jewish girl.
Run away, Anne Frank! Run away! The evil Nazis are coming for you! LMAO!
I told you all this POS was a liar.
And here I’ve caught it in a lie 100%.
It can’t refute the “1917 anti-Semitism act”, so it has SHUT ITS MOUTH GOOD AND PROPER like a good little jew.
I’d like to get its IP so we can find where it is located.
I am still here. Watching you with a bucket of popcorn. I think I wasted my money on the ticket
RE: “… and step in more often”
Reminds me of the thistle trying to take over my yard. I don’t want to use Glyphosate to eradicate them. One alternative is to use a propane torch & individually burn each one and/or dig each one up.
Seems like I would spend half the Summer doing that, & next year, I would still be right back where I started.
They invade via creeping roots AND they deposit fluffy white seeds floating on the winds.
I wish I could charge them a cover charge$ to discourage them from coming into my yard & starting fights with all the other grasses, while letting all the hot chicks, ‘er good grasses into my lawn for free. Doesn’t work that way.
As it stands, the thistle are winning.
“the NAP isn’t enough. It doesn’t define itself. It doesn’t apply itself to the countless and ever-changing variables inherent in the human condition.”…
http://bionicmosquito.blogspot.com/2016/02/musings-on-anarchy.html
It is indeed a tricky balance. There does tend to be people who are monomaniacal about the JQ and some are rather inarticulate and histrionic.
I’m all for calling out both individuals AND tribal groups when credit (or blame) is due. But there’s no one group behind EVERYTHING, either.
Now, that being said, the issue is that the Tribe is in reality involved in a disproportionate amount of mischief. For instance, below I posted a link about a Massachusetts bill that tries to make it official state policy to limit the number of miles driven. I had never heard of the sponsor before — the state Senate Majority Leader. I googled her info and guess what? Member of the Tribe.
What are the odds? And this type of thing happens on a LOT of issues. A LOT.
Does that make me an anti-Semitic monomaniacal nut, or just a reporter of fact?
Uncle A was histrionic and strident about the JQ. Decades ago when I read a quote from him saying “I am surrounded by Jews and they are trying subvert Germany” I thought that was the craziest thing I had ever head and the guy must have been nuts.
Then I studied history — actual, real history. Who was he actually surrounded by? Leon Trotsky in the USSR. Bela Kun in Hungary. Kurt Eisner in the “Bavarian Soviet.” Rosa Luxemburg, co-founder of the German Communist Party. Leon Blum in France. All communists, preaching global conquest.
Again, what are the odds?
Now the fact that Uncle A was right about certain things is not an endorsement of some of his policies. (He had allies, like Mannerheim and Admiral Horthy, who were equally anti-communist but not as strident on the JQ).
So I think that part of the problem is that total denial of the JQ, and suppression of discussion about it, paradoxically attracts the most strident and the most monomaniacal, rather than the most sober and the most realistic, because the most sober and the most realistic will continue to keep their mouths shut if it costs them a job or a career.
To use a contemporary example there is no doubt that the Tribe is closely associated with U.S. foreign policy toward Ukraine/Russia, the Gaza War, Iran and Syria. To deny this is simply absurd. Anyone critical of our foreign policy toward these nations will be frustrated by the lack of a real solution if we continue to deny that our policy is in the interest of the Tribe, not the United States.
The esteemed scholar John Mearsheimer wrote a book about this, but his is a lonely voice. (It also helps that he has been tenured for decades).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Israel_Lobby_and_U.S._Foreign_Policy
109 countries.
1,000+ times.
I can provide you with a list.
It’s the Jews. And only a Jew calls the truth “hate” because they live for lies. You are of your father, the devil.
Edward Brooke III was a Republican US Senator from Massachusetts who entered politics to address racial problems in the United States, whatever they are anymore.
He was inducted into the US armed forces when he was a young draftee.
Senator Brooke spelled out the differences within the armed forces in clear and uncertain terms. The reason why he became a politician.
I once encountered Senator Brooke in his office when I delivered mail to his office from outside correspondences or from constituents from his home state.
Made eye-to-eye contact.
People have brains and can use them. Doesn’t matter the color of their skin.
Just some musings from some dumb honky cat.
Americans have more tottooes than Chins in a Chinese phone book.
Such is life.
Beam me up.
Tattooes, so sotty.
Or maybe tot-tooes the correct spelling
Perhaps the tattoos include tatted toes? I’ve seen such a thing. Tattoos on a woman are a sure indicator of a plaything. These days a woman without tattoos is a wholesome breath of fresh air regardless of her features otherwise.
Morning, Drump!
You have touched on something that will get me into trouble for touching it. I also loathe tattoos. Yes, I know – it’s a personal choice and opinions vary. Fine, of course. I would never argue that people who get tattoos ought to be punished or restrained from getting them. I also would never argue that a person who wants to eat themselves into morbid obesity ought to be prevented from doing so or be forbidden to wear a bikini. I will however avert my eyes.
I feel the same about tattoos. I do not see them as “art” – as some say graffiti is. I see both as public uglifications of civilization. Tats make women look trashy and men thuggy.
Tattooed people are so prevalent that you would think that they would finally realize what they are really doing and have done.
Queequed Nation is here.
MAGA tattoos last forever and beyond.
Make Swastikas Great Again!
And thanks for the reply.
Roger that, Drump!
PS: Another thing about tattoos is that they’re vulgar (i.e., common) and no longer even the expressions of being an outlaw or on the fringes as they once were back when it was almost exclusively bikers, felons and sailors who sported them.
Agree fully. But we’re Gen X. In our youth women did not have tats and most men didn’t either, unless they were bikers or sailors.
There’s definitely a generational/follow the crowd thing with tats.
It’s hilarious to see skinny, scrawny, pasty 20-somethign kids with full sleeves these days. Back in the day only big, hairy 1%ers who would beat the fuck out of you for looking at them sideways had such tats.
The youtube comments are great.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDhde8MSwBA
Massachusetts “Freedom to Move” Act seeks to limit vehicle miles traveled to reduce carbon emissions:
https://archive.is/oK7U6
“Cindy Creem,” LOL
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cynthia_Stone_Creem#Personal_life
Hi X,
Yup. This is all coming, inevitably. It will not be stopped unless we stop it. Just as was true with regard to maaaaaaaaaasking and being pressured to accept the drugs being pushed on us.
There was no need to present any evidence because the idiots at VW pled guilty and threw themselves to the mercy of a court run by Ming the Merciless.
FCA needs to fight this hard. A halfway decent legal team should be able to leverage the Loper Bright ruling to squash this. Failing that at least they could fight to a stalemate.
Someone needs to man-up here.
Absolutely! The auto companies should have fought back from the beginning instead of submitting…”please sir, may I have another”.
“An interesting aspect of this business is that Merrick Garland is no longer attorney general, Michael Regan is no longer head apparatchik at the EPA and Joe Biden is no longer fronting the presidency. Donald Trump is. He has used his executive power to do many things. Why not use them to end the persecution of Cummins over this noncompliance nonsense?”
I’m amused by:
1) The assumption that Orange Fail would even care.
2) The idea that an executive order solves anything. If Orange Fail can end the persecution via executive order, well then the next scum bag to occupy the office can issue an EO to reverse Orange Fail’s order and could even increase the fines and prosecution of Cummins just as arbitrarily.
Vote harder.
“Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.”
H. L. Mencken
So you hate common people?
Quit picking on common people, they’re good people too, ya know
On the Cummins site, regarding the recall:
Hear from retired Navy Veteran, David
David invited us to hear how his Ram 3500’s power, fuel economy and DEF usage performs after Emissions Recall 67A.
https://www.cummins.com/recall-information
This video is slickly produced corporate PR. ‘David’ is a portly, salt-of-the-earth character with a rough-and-tumble provincial accent who, in his own words, has ‘just been workin’ the land.’ Would Farmer Dave lie to us?
Why not just post the before-and-after power and torque curves, fuel consumption and DEF consumption? ‘Just the facts, ma’am,’ as Sergeant Friday used to say.
But no … another video featuring ‘Brad Sutton, Powertrain Engineering’ claims no impact on power or torque. But Brad fesses up that some 2016-2018 models may see an 0.5 mpg ‘impact’ (meaning ‘decrease’ in plain English) on fuel use. Still no data here — just idle chitter-chatter. Talk is cheap.
Slick, feel-good, anecdotal videos (complete with idyllic farm noises and a friendly bark from the owner’s dog) tell you from a mile away that you’re being toyed with. A century past the days of Bernays, corporate bullshit has evolved to a highly polished art form.
Thinking to post a counter video, in which after a few seconds of spittle-flecked ranting, I chug from a DEF container (actually water), then slam a beer bottle against the counter, throwing shards of glass at the camera which fades to black. The End. 🙂
From all that we went through
And I tread a troubled track
My odds are stacked
I’ll go back to black
— Amy Winehouse, Back to Black
The real question is why Cummings was singled out and not Mercedes, Volvo and Caterpillar.
This war against diesel engines, like all the waves of wetback invasion, is uniform across the Noahide empire. When the entire west turns on a dime against hyper efficient and low Co2 emitting diesel engines we can be certain that there is a hidden agenda.
Cummins appears to be globohomo so that can’t be it:
https://www.social.cummins.com/news/2022/05/25/cummins-named-best-employer-diversity-2022
Cummins also appears to support the genocide in Palestine:
https://www.depkes.org/blog/does-cummins-support-israel-a-deep-dive/
Cummins seems to kowtow correctly to the climate tyrants as well:
https://www.cummins.com/news/2019/11/15/new-cummins-strategy-address-climate-change-conserve-natural-resources
I dunno. Maybe they merely stepped on the wrong Jew’s toes.
They’re already compliant. So go ahead and pile on the transgressions.
What is wrong wirh this forum that Jews have to be mentioned in relation to Cummins and emissions
Really a shame a good website has been taken over and is being destroyed by the trolls to the point I can’t recommend this site to anyone.
Literally becoming a home for Jew hating lunatics ranting about the Jews amongst themselves. No longer a decent automotive site!!
Such an affront that you all abuse Eric’s support of free speech to literally destroy and limit his ability to monetize this site!
No longer a decent automotive site!!
I need to clarify this
Eric’s content is great.
The trolls content in the comments section sucks
I hate the fact that Israel is committing genocide. To confuse Judaism with the actions of the evil Israeli government is moronic.
There is one tribe that is famous all over the planet because wherever they go they try to shut down free speech. They’re here.
Clearly the message you are trying to convey to Eric Peters is “either censor your comments section or we will shut you down”. This is hypocrisy from someone claiming that they enjoy this site praising “Eric’s support of free speech” while demanding that he shut it down. Next you’ll probably claim that you don’t support the murder of Palestinian babies and the theft of their land. Then you will blather on about “judaism” and try to pretend that Jews don’t consider all criticism of Israel to be antisemitic.
Only a Judeo-communist would appologize for Jewish policies like wokeism, warmism and population replacement. The war against diesel fits most of these policies, and it has now manifested itself in disproportionate penalties against Cummins. This is very “Jew” relavent.
It’s true, Burn it.
I fully support freedom of speech and no one can say Eric doesn’t. But it’s a well visible phenomenon that when a site properly supports free speech, there ends up a high concentration of Jew haters there, being that they’re squelched from everywhere else.
I agree that the nefarious Israeli government isn’t Judiasm and most certainly doesn’t represent all Jews. Even all Israelis. There are plenty of Jews opposing its actions. I think for some, blanket condemnation is easier.
“There are plenty of Jews opposing its actions”. ROFL. Which Jews are opposing the right for white people to be antisemitic and to deny the holocaust narrative? Which Jews are sticking their necks out demanding Ye’s freedom of speech?
More importantly, which Jewish organization has come out in public and demanded that communist/kabbalistic Jewish organizations, such as SPLC, ADL, AIPAC or B’nai B’rith are out there actively protesting for anti-semite rights?
Cummins has to die for Judea, just like those 175,000 Jews at Auschwitz. Just like VW, BMW and Mercedes. if Cummins expects Jews to stand up against the warmist, wokeist Eretz Israel juggernaught that is committing genocide in Palestine, then they got another thing coming.
Right on BaDnOn
Crazy thing is these vile types have no clue that one day their children and grandchildren will be hated in the same way. Why? Because they lived in the American empire that spreads death and destruction round the world.
When the world finally turns on these guys you’ll see them quickly turn tail and pretend they were just victims of America’s policies. Couldn’t help what country or what family they were born into. There will be no fight in them.
Likewise you have to wonder how many of these keyboard warriors are actually on the government dole.
Zero concern for someone else’s property. Zero concern for what someone else has built. . . . But that is sort of the hallmark of a government lackey.
109+ countries.
1,000+ times.
“109+ countries. 1,000+ times.”
Yet they still come and pollute comments sections across the internet with their kvetching and squealing about “never again”, all the while they are burning mothers, families and their children in Palestine alive.
Any sane person would have started thinking about “never again” after they got expelled from the second country. They clearly never considered what would happen if their entire 6 million hoax was exposed as a massive lie against humanity.
Yes, burn it down….read it here, or anywhere else, the truth is the same regardless
we know, the truth really hurts about the jews.
So bury your head back in the sand, with your butt in the air, while the Jews continue to pound you, coming and going.
“Even the best of the Goyim must die…” Rabbi Emmanuel Schneerson.
Here’s the thing – even if I were to agree with your useless attacks on a collective – what does it accomplish?
What bearing does it have upon the article that these comments are supposed to pertain to?
None.
Instead we get 3rd grade level commentary from keyboard warriors that only serve to destroy this site.
And what are you doing to fight the Jews? Absolutely nothing. Why not Man up, go to Gaza. Get in the fight against those you claim to so despise.
Ah, that’s right – you don’t actually have that sort of conviction or courage.
109 countries.
1,000+ times.
I can provide you with a list.
They RUN IN COWARDLY FEAR when you mention this FACT.
It won’t answer.
IT is told NOT TO, because this narrative sheds light on the FACT they are terrible people.
109.
1000+.
Let me guess. Everyone ELSE’S fault.
If you’re so right in your and your message is so needed – why not go start your own website?
Unfortunately we know the answer; it’s much easier for trolls and bots like you to get paid by GovCo and tear down what someone else has built and destroy someone else’s livelihood.
So pathetic!
Burn it done, you are the problem, a laminate.
Cut it out. Nobody wants to censor your bunkum and bosh.
Everyone gets to speak their mind here, whether accepted by Eric or not.
You don control any of the decisions. You are not the editor-in-chief, Eric is. Deal with it.
You don’t… and on and on and on
The words of a Jewish Hasbara Sayanim mean nothing.
109 countries.
1,000+ times.
You’re a lying Jew, and if Eric knows anything, he knows that JEWISH LIES will destroy EVERYTHING. And we know what you’re here to push. YOU are the one poisoning the wells. Not me. I speak the truth.
Any one that brings their truck in to be “fixed” when it’s working fine is just asking for trouble. Perhaps this is why the new cars can get over the air updates and if it brick’s your car and it’s out of warranty I’m guessing you are SOL.
As for extending the warranty I’m guessing it won’t be lengthened that much either and all the Cat merch will be made in China and fall apart in short order. The problem will be that if it goes into the dealership they will update it whether you want it updated or not.
In the useless trivia portion of my scribbling the . . . at the end of the article is hyperlinked to the YouTube video from Eric’s article “it’s not just a windshield anymore”. Sorta, kinda like a hidden Easter egg……….
Around here when the DEF system starts throwing out codes the fix is to “delete” it, along with the stock exhaust (and often the muffler).
No emissions testing, no foul.
Does anyone really expect the coal rollin’ boys to comply? Unless FCA starts cutting checks for 75%+ of the sticker price like VW did, no one is going to budge.
Yeah, that’s the way to do it as long as you live in the right state. One day here in NJ I dropped my car off at my friend’s shop for service. There was a F-250 with a powerstroke there with its cab lifted up. They said that’s the easiest way to work on the back of the motor. When I came back later in the day, I asked what the problem was. Apparently, the owner who owned a nursery had done a delete on it and decided to sell it. He put an add on Facebook marketplace and mentioned the delete in the ad. Dumb move. A few days later he was contacted by NJ DEP. Turns out they have a contract with some company who looks through ads for stuff like this. The state gave him two options. He could put the truck back to the way it was when it was new, or it would be crushed. So, he spent about $8k putting the emissions systems back on. He had sold off the stuff he took off too which made it even worse.
I think you have to be pretty crazy to buy any of these modern diesels. Too much hassle in the long run plus the upfront cost has become astronomical. Unless you are doing some serious towing you are better off sticking with a gas motor.
Honestly even for serious towing a modern gas v8 is a better option. The mpg is close enough and the fuel cost differential erases that as an economy measure.
My 2014 RAM Ecodiesel (VM Motori, for when you want your Dodge to have the reliability and economical maintenance of a Ferrari…) will get 30mpg driven lightly on the highway, while as soon as I put 3000 lbs on a trailer and tow with it that drops to about 13.
Meanwhile a 2012 GMC 2500 with a 6.0 LS will get about 20 mpg unladen which drops to about 12 when towing the same load, on fuel 10-15% cheaper.
Real diesels were great, reliable, economical torque monsters. Put a filter in the exhaust, and tweak the injection to meter every single droplet of fuel, and you get something useless and entirely inferior.
Increasingly, “criminals” are NOT people who violate others’ property, dignity, bodily integrity, or lives through force or fraud. Rather, “criminals” are people who oppose the government.
Cummins did something the government doesn’t like. So they are criminals.
Cummins did something the REAL CRIMINALS don’t like. Which makes them “criminals”.