It may not be nazism but it sure doesn’t respect our personal property rights.
I think a better description is Eco-fascism.
They are brainwashing the kids to think we destroying our planet. Not So!!
I would have no issue with all this emission stuff, IF, #1, the egr design was actually property made so that all the soot would was cleaned out PRE going back into the intake to prevent #1 soot contamination of the intake, #2 soot plugging up the egr cooler fins, #3 soot plugging up the swirl valves, #4 soot plugging up the egr valve from operating property.
However, FCA seems to take the "it's not our problem" stance regarding accepting any responsibility for all the ecodiesel fires. They design a shitty system that is prone to egr valve sticking, swirl valve sticking, and hence, huge destructive intake FIRES from oily soot and extreme heat and tonnes of plastic parts.
So EPA is sitting here saying, everyone needs to have a functional EGR valve to reduce NOx emissions, YET they fail to give a crap that the EGR design on these trucks is causing more and more trucks to burst out in flames.
REALISTICALLY, if everyone were to follow EPA's mandate, then we would have a lot more environmental issues! #1 these stock trucks are prone to catastrophic fires creating a hell of a lot of terrible emissions for the environment with all the black smoke they make when burning to the ground (totally unnecessary), and #2 what happens to the trucks after they are written off from fires (more pollution in our landfills as these trucks are scraped)?
If some 500,000 trucks were produced and more and more catch fire, that's a hell of a lot of garbage in our scrap yards. So how is all the EPA nonsence mandating egr functionality really helping the environment on a truck that is prone to failure?
Leave the tuning companies alone, these tunes are preventing catastrophic failure, keep more trucks on the road instead of in the garbage dumps, preventing major fires which pollute the environment, and in the end, actually helping our environment.
Someone at FCA or EPA really needs a wakeup call to redesign this egr system so that it's not destroying itself, and then I'd support EPA's stance. I have absolutely no issues protecting our air, but at what cost? Having to buy a new truck every 2-3 years cause these burst into flames? Or replacing all these emission parts every 2-3 years cause they are so shitty they don't last?
Instead of going after the tuning companies, EPA should be starting at the TOP, go after FCA, and force them to build a product that is compliant, and also LASTS and doesn't catch fire! Not only for the new 2020 models, but make them be accountable, starting years back from 2014 when they first came out and recall all the diesel trucks and fix the mess they created!
Unfortunately, it's our problem, we bought it, and FCA refuses to stand behind their product. It doesn't leave owners much choice but to tune the truck in an effort to keep it running and prevent it from blowing up in flames!
It's all a cash grab, like you said, young people are being brainwashed by government-mandated rules, they get jobs for EPA without a real reality check and we all suffer...
