Bully Dog and SCT Settles With Feds

[Dadoffourgirls]

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 defeat device software for cars and trucks, the EPA and Department of Justice said.

Derive manufactured and sold software designed to access and overwrite original vehicle manufacturers' software for monitoring vehicles' onboard diagnostics of emissions control to comply with the Clean Air Act. The products were sold under the brand names Bully Dog and SCT. Derive's software enabled users to remove emission control components that reduce tailpipe emissions, including catalysts, diesel particulate filters, exhaust gas recirculation systems, elements of onboard diagnostic systems, and other certified components.

Under the settlement, Derive must stop selling noncompliant tuners and retrofit existing tuners so that they comply with the law. It also must stop instructing consumers how to defeat emissions controls in their vehicles and train employees to comply with the law.

The EPA has made clear in recent years that it will enforce laws prohibiting modifications to certified vehicles' emissions components.

[mich800]

Turtle n Peeps wrote:
I look at this like gun laws. Why are they coming after the gun makers? Gun are perfectly legal to own. So are tuners...…."off road."

The ones I have seen have on them in about 50 places "for off road or competition use only." Bla, bla, bla, bla…….

Sort of like fining and putting a gasoline station out of business for selling gas to an arsonist. :h :h

Could it be they want the money and the little guy they sell the tuner to doesn't have any of that? Hmmmmmmmm????

It is easier to go after a few rather than thousands.

The thing that would make a consumer nervous would be if the EPA confiscates the customer list. I remember way back when satellite tv started out. Remember the huge dishes and big converter boxes. There were some selling unlocked converters so you could get every station without a subscription. Some of those guys got busted and then they went after the people that also purchased the boxes. I don't know if this was just a local bust type thing or if it was widespread.

[ShinerBock]

ACZL wrote:

gbopp wrote:
The EPA, nuff said. :B

With the backing of tree huggers who don't like diesels or any combustion able motor for that rate

That is what happens when people sit at home instead of voting. Squeakiest wheel gets the grease.

[ACZL]

gbopp wrote:
The EPA, nuff said. :B

With the backing of tree huggers who don't like diesels or any combustion able motor for that rate

[Turtle_n_Peeps]

I look at this like gun laws. Why are they coming after the gun makers? Gun are perfectly legal to own. So are tuners...…."off road."

The ones I have seen have on them in about 50 places "for off road or competition use only." Bla, bla, bla, bla…….

Sort of like fining and putting a gasoline station out of business for selling gas to an arsonist. :h :h

Could it be they want the money and the little guy they sell the tuner to doesn't have any of that? Hmmmmmmmm????

[Ron3rd]

I thought Orange Man was getting rid of the EPA

[Cummins12V98]

"It also must stop instructing consumers how to defeat emissions controls in their vehicles and train employees to comply with the law."

I'm thinkin there won't be any employees after that!

[ShinerBock]

TheLuvShack wrote:
Do you think this ruling will affect 5 Star Tune?

Yes, according to another article I read about this ruling it stated that it will force SCT to limit what perimeters custom tuners are allowed to change. The reason why custom tuners like 5 Star were able to add power to trucks like my old old Ecoboost was by removing all of the programming that limited emissions. In many cases, the factory programming did more harm to the engine in order to reduce emissions than tuning did.

[TheLuvShack]

Do you think this ruling will affect 5 Star Tune?

[hvac]

Anybody know if GDE is next in line? I ask as its the go to tune for the eco diesel.

[gbopp]

The EPA, nuff said. :B

[ShinerBock]

I remember back in the day my father working on his old 71 C10 V8 350. That thing went from a basic emissions legal truck into a daily driven beast of a sleeper. My uncle did the same with his old Chevelle although his was no sleeper. You could tell it would blow your doors off.

I continued the trend, but instead of replacing cams, carbs, and other components I used a laptop since most of the hard parts could be adjusted for more power if you knew what you were doing. I guess those days are gone now since the laws have turned the people who do this into criminals.