Bully Dog and SCT Settles With Feds
Derive Systems on Monday agreed to pay $6.25 million to improve internal compliance procedures and pay a civil penalty of $300,000 to settle charges that it sold 363,000 aftermarket emissions control ...
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camperdave wrote:NJRVer wrote:
Sounds like the aftermarket got spanked for basically doing the same thing Volkswagen got caught doing.
They both violated the emission laws.
Makes you wonder how the aftermarket thought they would keep getting away with it after Volkswagen was caught.
They thought that putting "for off road use only" on the box would be a loophole they could use. VW obviously can't do that.
apparently the epa disagrees with their use of that loophole. Looks like it was an out of court settlement so the epa probably just bullied them into compliance with threats of long lawsuits.
Even "off road" vehicles have emission to meet.
Case in point. Chinese diesels couldn't meet the standard with the tractors they wanted to export to US. They were banned until they could meet the standard.
