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Originally Posted by Blighty
So explain what's changed exactly.
How are Cobb liable for a person using a racing tune off the racetrack?
I mean, I'd really like to know that its just not some muppet board of directors with a sudden conscience about climate change that have decided that "oh people will still buy our product but now we are guilt free".
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the saying that most applies here is "the nail that sticks out gets hammered down"
the legal landscape is a crazy minefield.
https://www.sparkfun.com/news/1428
all those hid bulbs that fit in halogen housings? entirely illegal. on the front of any headlamp, it lists the specific type of bulb that the headlamp was approved, certified, and designed for to meet specific output and pattern specifications set forth by DOT regulations. any alteration(like installing hid/led in a halogen housing) from that original light source is illegal by the letter of the law(this was conveniently written by OEM's this way, but that's a whole other discussion).
many of those modded bulbs were shipped into the country labeled as "mining lamps" or similar, hoping to pass customs by luck of the draw--many companies importing them even planned for a certain amount of the shipments to be discovered and destroyed as part of their business planning.
few to none were ever labeled on customs documents as 'headlamp bulbs'. with those, DOT and Customs specifically talked about "intent of the end user". while all the bulbs were specifically labeled as "off-road use only", customs destroyed a ton of packages of them over the years because the obvious end user intent was to use those bulbs on the road, and subject to DOT rules and regulations for output and beam pattern. there were also some federal charges levied against some of the importers under similar grounds that they were knowingly selling non-compliant headlamp bulbs the public. in the late 2000's, vehicle lighting was THE issue at hand. most people will barely even remember it happened anymore. i've still got the ticket for my 2 tiny blue led license plate bolts, while now it's literally a standard to have an offroad rig with multi-colored strobing lighting all over it...
this scenario is no different. country-wide problems are like whack-a-mole. tuning has simply reached a threshold that it's the biggest mole in the mobility industry to justify being whacked.