2nd Gen Non-Engine/Transmission Anyone else ever gotten this notice?

[CowboyNick]

I live here in good ole Commie-fornia and recently got this notice in the mail and couldn't help but laugh! I drive a 96 single cab long bed Cummins with no mods and apparently it "smokes too much" haha! Couldn't believe it.. Let me know if any of y'all have gotten this as well.. #ad

 

[Mingoglia]

I once before saw someone from Kalifornia get one of those years ago. Good job. lol

 

[GrantP]

I received one of those years ago when I had my 97 in AZ. Pretty sure it was reported by the guy on the highway that deliberately cut me off in heavy traffic and had his drivers window down. No I'm not proud of it but...I wish I had kept that letter. ;-)

 

[CowboyNick]

Haha that's hilarious.. There's nothing they can do to me, it's pre-smog and runs how it's supposed to.

 

[CowboyNick]

Oh yeah I feel ya! There ain't a diesel driver out there than can say they've never rolled coal on someone who cut them off or something along those lines.. Perks of driving a diesel. Had a guy today who rode my *** light after light even after I gave em a warning so at the next red light I just sat there and covered his car for the 2+ minutes that the light was red.

 

[GrantP]

I'm surprised your 96 with no mods smokes enough in normal driving to get reported? Someone was being overly sensitive...or you were really trying? I had to try to make smoke with my (minimal) mods.

 

[Bob V]

"Rollin Coal" has really hurt the Diesel performance industry. How long did you think we could do it and nobody complain? To me its a little childish, "you cut me of, well I am going to blow smoke at you". I did my share in my day so I am guilty also. But making a diesel smoke is EASY, I am not impressed. Make some REAL POWER without smoke, that IS something to be proud of. If we keep it up, states WILL be forced to do something about it, not just a letter. Often we can be our own worse enemy.

 

[KATOOM]

No, I've never gotten one of these notices. But.....I have had people roll up their windows while sitting at stop lights because my engine is so freaking loud. Lets hope the Air Resource Board doesn't start construing noise as a "pollution".

 

[RBeard]

Texas has it too. They granted money to Texas A&M to set up monitoring trucks on the on Ramps of freeways to sample and take pics of vehicles as they enter the freeway and then send you a notice like that. Rumor has it that they have emission police that follow up on really bad vehicles and make you fix them or they yank your registration.

 

[Cooper_D]

First frame the letter

Second get an application to work at the Air Resources Board and get one of thos 6 figure a year jobs with good retirement

It's amazing what we pay people to spy on.

A friend of mine owned a music store back in the 80's & 90's when an inspector from the state of Ohio walked in and asked to see anything he sold that was padded, piano seats drum seats etc.

After looking at everything he said one of the padded drum seats did not have a label showing what was in it and the warning "Do not remove this label"!

My friend who likes to play practical jokes thought one was being played on him and laughed in the guy's face.

Come to find out it was legit

We really do pay people to check for those "Do not remove" labels.

 

[Cummins12V98]

Make a copy return it with in big bold letters across it "KISS MY ***"

 

[Bill Stockard]

Texas has it too. They granted money to Texas A&M to set up monitoring trucks on the on Ramps of freeways to sample and take pics of vehicles as they enter the freeway and then send you a notice like that. Rumor has it that they have emission police that follow up on really bad vehicles and make you fix them or they yank your registration.

Yes, they do in Texas. A relative who owned a First Gen that got a similar letter as the OP from the Texas Department of Environmental Quality (TDEQ) Someone had followed his truck and reported it as smoking too much. His truck was unmodified. Fortunately for him, those letters have no "teeth" and aren't enforced.

Bill

 

[Bob4x4]

Haha that's hilarious.. There's nothing they can do to me, it's pre-smog and runs how it's supposed to.

Actually they can,just like an old worn out gasser that smokes.It just doesn't happen very often.

 

[klcammie]

"Rollin Coal" has really hurt the Diesel performance industry. How long did you think we could do it and nobody complain? To me its a little childish, "you cut me of, well I am going to blow smoke at you". I did my share in my day so I am guilty also. But making a diesel smoke is EASY, I am not impressed. Make some REAL POWER without smoke, that IS something to be proud of. If we keep it up, states WILL be forced to do something about it, not just a letter. Often we can be our own worse enemy.

I agree 100%

 

[Regcabguy]

I rarely see guys smoking their diesels around here.
The cleaner tunes and the cost of diesel seems to persuade owners to not bog their engines down.
Owners seem content with complete combustion.

 

[RustyJC]

Unfortunately, I still see too many "smokers" on the Houston freeways laying down coal, but mostly they're older diesels. I don't know why it's so hard to understand that things are not going to turn out well when these guys think it's cool to bury voting citizens in a black cloud....

Rusty