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Originally Posted by Tcoat
The disclaimers do not cover them under the law and the fines can be in the millions. The new(ish) laws say it is illegal to sell ANY product (including tunes) that affects the pollution control devices or fuel system of a vehicle. It does not say it is legal to sell them just for track use.
It is NOT just them. I am sure that Australia has or will have soon a law just like it. Every country in the world is passing similar if not identical legislation. Most of the European countries laws are probably going to be even tighter.
https://www.epa.gov/enforcement/nati...es-and-engines
People are trying to counter it but they don't stand much chance.
https://www.sema.org/epa-news
Welcome to reality of the wave of the future.
OH and as to what's changed. The same tech that makes it so easy to create custom tunes makes it just as easy to check them. If it should be XYZ tune and they find ABC you are busted. |
Australia doesn't have your clean air act - an ultra open ended and powerful piece of legislation that little baby is.
So nothing has changed legally for the US, its just that the EPA have decided to take on the diesel emission defeat market based on that well diesel engines need them, and on the way they are taking down everything else.
I mean I can see why you would want to target diesel defeat products, its a huge market that makes big emissions. But yeah it does on the surface seem pretty dire - I do wonder if you can avoid being under their crosshairs (so don't do anything with diesel - because that the study they are using to justify its position and seems to be part of every one of its prosecutions), then after a bit of time the special 'Initiative' they are doing will subside somewhat.
Well anyway, where there is a will there's a way right.