Nine Dying Diesel Fads

Thanks for posting. Number 9 is only for losers.

Definitely agree on #9. Not as common as once was, but still see a few (usually the young immature "cowboy" types) loving to smoke the vehicles around them leaving a traffic light.

And those huge pipe extensions or similar sized stacks coming up out the bed? :S

I wish mine HAD the train horns. I'd really like to (literally) honk off idiots and jerks that think they own the road.

Some time ago I saw a pick-up truck blowing belches of black smoke and sounded like he had no muffler at all of any type. Noisy and black belched out of that machine. I thought to myself ... how stupid!

The thing I'm most envious about new diesels is their ability to make gobs of power and no smoke at all.
Every time I see someone "rolling coal" I think what a POS.

Hey, no mention of 'truck nutz' dangling from the hitch receiver or shank!

ppine wrote:
Thanks for posting. Number 9 is only for losers.

Immature losers.

Those losers have trained me to immediately turn on the recirculation setting for the HVAC. I can do it in less than a second! :)

I would love to add one thing to the list (as a non-owner of diesels):

The STUPID idea that it's better to idle a diesel engine than shut it off and re-start.

I'm not talking about semi drivers who have legit reason to run refrigeration systems, etc. I'm talking about bubbas in Sonic (and many other places) who insist on idling the entire time they are there (even when no AC is needed), thus inundating the rest of us with their stinking exhaust and the sounds of an ancient tractor engine.

Of course we are supposed to be IMPRESSED by that.

If you have a diesel with a straight pipe (no muffler), I have news for you.
You're "THAT GUY" to everyone else in the campground. You know, the guy most people wonder when you're checking out so they can have peace and quiet again. May as well bring along a contractor generator powered by a briggs and stratton, that runs at ear splitting loudness levels and run it all day too. Or maybe unload a straight piped noisy davidson motorcycle and idle it for 45 minutes while you put your pirate costume on and rev it needlessly (in the city at every stop light) like a 12 year old with a clothes pinned playing card in his bicycle spokes. 'Cuz you know....loud pipes save lives while annoying everyone within 2 miles.

/rant

ib516 wrote:
If you have a diesel with a straight pipe (no muffler), I have news for you.
You're "THAT GUY" to everyone else in the campground. You know, the guy most people wonder when you're checking out so they can have peace and quiet again. May as well bring along a contractor generator powered by a briggs and stratton, that runs at ear splitting loudness levels and run it all day too. Or maybe unload a straight piped noisy davidson motorcycle and idle it for 45 minutes while you put your pirate costume on and rev it needlessly (in the city at every stop light) like a 12 year old with a clothes pinned playing card in his bicycle spokes. 'Cuz you know....loud pipes save lives while annoying everyone within 2 miles.

/rant

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