Diesel "loudness"?
Do diesel trucks get louder as they age, or were ones built years ago that much louder than today's diesel? I test drove one recently, a 2016 ram 2500, and it was rather quiet... only a bit louder ...
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Gdetrailer wrote:
MANY diesel owners DO remove sound AND emission equipment..
I see AND HEAR that pretty much on a daily basis, my house is only 40ft from the road, well insulated, double pane windows and yet have MANY PICKUP TRUCKS fly by making MORE NOISE AND BLACK SMOKE than the 18 wheelers that drive the same road by my house.
In the summer it gets so bad on the weekends I can't even sit out on my front porch :M
Have you ever wondered about the diesels leaving the big black clouds of smoke when accelerating? Yep, those owners HAVE indeed not only removed emission equipment but HAVE also added a "programmer" which tricks the computer into thinking the emissions stuff is present AND dumps tons of fuel into the cylinders to create that lovely choking black cloud..
Its called "rolling coal".. Look it up and read about it.
Sadly, those folks have done this to satisfy their ego's, giving diesels yet another "black eye"..
Sorry to hear that you live next to the road and your quality of life is so poorly affected. Stop and think for one minute that MANY diesel owners make modifications to their trucks to increase power and/or performance for a good reason...and its doubtful that they did this specifically to make you angry. I'll take it that you've never made any modification to anything you've ever owned to positively affect its characteristics? Now we wouldn't want to be throwing rocks at our own glass house, of course.
Naturally, your rant includes some falsehoods that displays your way of thinking. Essentially anyone that has a vehicle louder than you like, smokier than you like, etc. apparently has an uncontrollable ego. Its reasonable to understand that your privileges should easily trump theirs, I guess.
2oldman wrote:
I have.. I've wondered why they aren't ticketed and towed for violating Federal emission laws.
It's the height of arrogance and selfishness.
Well, in most cases, they probably don't get ticketed and towed because they're not breaking the law. Your opinion of arrogance and selfishness may not be found in the state statutes. Here in FL, you have to "roll coal" for 5 consecutive seconds before your in violation. Simply removing the emissions equipment isn't always against the law.
