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During my VW days I spent considerable energy adding features and accessories using as factory/OEM as possible wiring. This meant using factory switches, factory relay panels, factory pins and wires etc. Most of the truck accessory market makes use of rocker switches and toggles that owners...

Wow, what a load of BS! Manufacturing hasn't moved, engine production hasn't moved. What crap. I hate when people make up random excuses for things they don't understand. All it does is cause frustration and confusion for owners.

I'm looking to add some sidesteps to my Tradesman. There are lots of options, so I'm trying to make a full list of what is out there with pictures. Hopefully this will help others who are also shopping around. If you have side steps - post em!

Right. I have also seen a drop in my average MPGs. Rotella T is not a high efficiency oil like the MS-11106 oils were. I was averaging mid-to-high 27, now I'm mid 25s.

Not unusual for high efficiency engines. The TDI, CRD and CDI guys have known about this for a while. Hyper-milers will use the accelerate-and-coast driving method for max MPGs. It is counter-intuitive that accelerating and coasting uses less fuel until you realize that this engine uses zero...

What? This is the part that doesn't add up TC - you "care about what you pass on" but yet you are okay with defeating your emissions systems... These don't square.

I also went through a few rounds of this in the Spring. Stopped for no apparent reason.

This why I put the note at the end. States have different emissions testing, some states have ZERO emissions testing. If you have this truck in Kentucky or New Hampshire, you can do whatever you want to it and still pass inspection. The process of "certification" by the EPA is a total...

Depends on the light. Some lights have resistors built in to replicate what a normal bulb would pull for current. The ones I bought were PnP with my Tradesman.

Unfortunately Shawn's overall posts, actions and claims across different forums called into question the reliability of the information in his videos and posts. Sadly he is no longer with us, but I personally am not convinced that video you reference is completely transparent about what is...

"Weather or Weather NOT the restrictions violates the certification is up for Debate. " Just because you say it is up for debate doesn't mean it is. You are wrong, absolutely 100% wrong. There is no debate on this. This is the text of the Clean Air Act: "(3)(A) for any person to remove or...

I'm with John on this. TC Diesel - you aren't making sense. You hammer away at GDE for their emissions modification and then later claim you have unplugged your EGR actuator AND run distilled water rather than DEF fluid...both violations of emissions regulations. This is hypocritical. I...

I understand the concept of average temperature. You also seem to be missing my point. I am curious to see if this is or *is not* something to worry about - e.g. should we check the manufacture date on the bottles we purchase. Is a bottle that is three years old safe to purchase and use...

I'm going to research this more myself. I bought a DEF tester and will test bottles that I have from more than one year ago vs bottles that are fresh. I'm guessing that the DEF chart is EXTREMELY conservative as it expects that the DEF will also sit in a car for 12-24 months in addition to the...

I hope that shelf life chart is rounding down because I'm certain more than 50% of owners in the south don't go through a tank of DEF every 6 months...I need to refill about every oil change (10k miles), that means that my truck is driving around with expired DEF in it most of the time.