As I described last week our diesel industry has gone through yet another transition this past year. It seems with the EPAs budget being cut they have decided to pick from low hanging fruit in order to get fees and monies from a few diesel programmers and shops.
As stated before and from earlier warnings from a few years ago, you can not advertise or market DPF/EGR delete kits. This has been against the law for many years whether we like it or not it is the law. I don't make the laws I'm just reporting what is realistic.
Also as stated before, the DPF delete started years ago by farmers who were catching their fields/trucks on fire when they left the truck running while out in the fields. Doesn't take long to want to fix that problem, I have had many rural dealers tell me they had the choice of removal or not sell large farms numerous trucks.
It has surfaced and is interesting that the two officials who are responsible for the latest intrusions are from Indiana and not California. Also interesting that two large diesel events are held near where they live and one even has their own rap sheet on the State Highway Patrol web site. This has drawn too much attention to unruly kids with smoking diesel trucks.
The majority of the industry relies on brick and mortar business of doing diesel truck maintenance on every day trucks that are used in business and life. 80% of their business is regular maintenance on our trucks and 20% on performance parts for our trucks.
Most new trucks come with near 500 hp drivetrains with low mileage warranties. Most people rely on the dealer for maintenance until the warranty runs out and then seeks better service from our brick and mortar shops.
It is the big 3 OEMs direction is to keep all maintenance at their dealerships. Their efforts involves the government agencies which are funded by the people they search out.
DIESEL Motorsports has had a no smoke street police for many years and has hosted several events a year for enthusiasts to bring their trucks to official licensed tracks for competition. It has been fun for many years and is a lifestyle for many of us across the country.
That has temporarily changed and we all have to be more considerate of other drivers in populated settings by not smoking the truck. We all know how not to do that and to do it! Many of us have pre-DPF trucks that are not included in the regulations but we still must be cognitive of other drivers.
We all want more power and more torque for when we pull trailers and such. It is the American way to change your vehicle, SEMAs new marketing report show that trucks are double the sales of all other vehicles so we are not alone.
What the Big 3 don't get is many our our shops being creative mechanics and engineers has fixed many of their problems regarding the drivetrain be it pumps, injectors, valves, cooling, etc. It was the same way during the 70s and may of those performance parts are now on current OEM vehicles.
They are hurting themselves and the industry by trying to regulate our diesel market. They could learn so much more and apply the improvements to our maintenance diesel vehicles that supply 90% of our services such as street maintenance, goods delivery, transporting parts for industry and garbage removal.
I'm sorry, I have research the electric option enough to know it is not the answer! It is ironic that the very states pushing for electric are having brown-outs and can not even power the homes/businesses much less millions of vehicles and they are cost prohibitive.
So let's try and be aware of other people while driving, do not advertise what is against the law and keep wrenching and try to make a living working on our diesel trucks. See you at our events!
As stated before and from earlier warnings from a few years ago, you can not advertise or market DPF/EGR delete kits. This has been against the law for many years whether we like it or not it is the law. I don't make the laws I'm just reporting what is realistic.
Also as stated before, the DPF delete started years ago by farmers who were catching their fields/trucks on fire when they left the truck running while out in the fields. Doesn't take long to want to fix that problem, I have had many rural dealers tell me they had the choice of removal or not sell large farms numerous trucks.
It has surfaced and is interesting that the two officials who are responsible for the latest intrusions are from Indiana and not California. Also interesting that two large diesel events are held near where they live and one even has their own rap sheet on the State Highway Patrol web site. This has drawn too much attention to unruly kids with smoking diesel trucks.
The majority of the industry relies on brick and mortar business of doing diesel truck maintenance on every day trucks that are used in business and life. 80% of their business is regular maintenance on our trucks and 20% on performance parts for our trucks.
Most new trucks come with near 500 hp drivetrains with low mileage warranties. Most people rely on the dealer for maintenance until the warranty runs out and then seeks better service from our brick and mortar shops.
It is the big 3 OEMs direction is to keep all maintenance at their dealerships. Their efforts involves the government agencies which are funded by the people they search out.
DIESEL Motorsports has had a no smoke street police for many years and has hosted several events a year for enthusiasts to bring their trucks to official licensed tracks for competition. It has been fun for many years and is a lifestyle for many of us across the country.
That has temporarily changed and we all have to be more considerate of other drivers in populated settings by not smoking the truck. We all know how not to do that and to do it! Many of us have pre-DPF trucks that are not included in the regulations but we still must be cognitive of other drivers.
We all want more power and more torque for when we pull trailers and such. It is the American way to change your vehicle, SEMAs new marketing report show that trucks are double the sales of all other vehicles so we are not alone.
What the Big 3 don't get is many our our shops being creative mechanics and engineers has fixed many of their problems regarding the drivetrain be it pumps, injectors, valves, cooling, etc. It was the same way during the 70s and may of those performance parts are now on current OEM vehicles.
They are hurting themselves and the industry by trying to regulate our diesel market. They could learn so much more and apply the improvements to our maintenance diesel vehicles that supply 90% of our services such as street maintenance, goods delivery, transporting parts for industry and garbage removal.
I'm sorry, I have research the electric option enough to know it is not the answer! It is ironic that the very states pushing for electric are having brown-outs and can not even power the homes/businesses much less millions of vehicles and they are cost prohibitive.
So let's try and be aware of other people while driving, do not advertise what is against the law and keep wrenching and try to make a living working on our diesel trucks. See you at our events!
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