Attention: TDR Forum Junkies I swear there are some people out there that I wonder about how they even get by day to day.
Didn't know where else to post this, but thought this was a good place. So I am getting home from work yesterday to have the wife tell me that I got a letter from some South Coast Air Quality Management district that someone had written in to them, anonomously of course
, that my truck was blowing excessive smoke. Now my truck only blows serious black smoke if I stomp on it from the get-go or have to accelerate onto the highway. Thing that caught my attention was that it is in a place that I am randomly at only once a week at the time of day(lunch time) that it was supposedly reported. I guess the idiot had so much time on there hands that they wrote my license plate down and sent it in, thinking that this stupid air resource board is going to do something about it. Well, there is nothing they can do and where I live I am not even emitting 1/1,000,000th of the amount of crap tht the people down here in southern California emit everyday. 18 wheelers emit way more smoke than I do and they are driving constantly up and down the state.
Anyway, this really just ****** me off and I can't believe that there are idiot tree huggers out there that probably just drive up and down the road looking for this kind of thing or any trouble they can stir up. It a friggin' diesel for pete's sake and all diesels emit smoke, some more than others, but that is just a fact of the design of the diesel engine, something everyone should be aware of. I wrote back to this board in the comment section of the return letter, saying that #1 diesels emit smoke and it is a fact. #2 I mentioned the 18 wheeler big rigs and buses that i see everyday emitting 10 times the amount of smoke that my truck does plus they are on the road 10 times more than me and #3 do not send me another notice such as this as it is a waste of their time as well as mine and nothing can be done about it and if they want to send this letter to someone it should be every car owner in southern Cali as we are probably the most poluting state in the nation right now.
Well, just had to get that off my chest and hope you guys feel the same. I just hate this, cuz I am not one to just tune my engine to blow all the smoke it can and smoke everyone on the road out everyday. This is just stupid that my truck was picked out of all the others on the road, to be the one who gets the letter and is now on the Air resources board hit list. I think I am gonna start anonomously reporting all the big rigs, buses and cars that I see emitting any smoke whether it is natural for the engine to do, like our diesels, or whether they are just burning oil or something.
Joe
Didn't know where else to post this, but thought this was a good place. So I am getting home from work yesterday to have the wife tell me that I got a letter from some South Coast Air Quality Management district that someone had written in to them, anonomously of course
, that my truck was blowing excessive smoke. Now my truck only blows serious black smoke if I stomp on it from the get-go or have to accelerate onto the highway. Thing that caught my attention was that it is in a place that I am randomly at only once a week at the time of day(lunch time) that it was supposedly reported. I guess the idiot had so much time on there hands that they wrote my license plate down and sent it in, thinking that this stupid air resource board is going to do something about it. Well, there is nothing they can do and where I live I am not even emitting 1/1,000,000th of the amount of crap tht the people down here in southern California emit everyday. 18 wheelers emit way more smoke than I do and they are driving constantly up and down the state. Anyway, this really just ****** me off and I can't believe that there are idiot tree huggers out there that probably just drive up and down the road looking for this kind of thing or any trouble they can stir up. It a friggin' diesel for pete's sake and all diesels emit smoke, some more than others, but that is just a fact of the design of the diesel engine, something everyone should be aware of. I wrote back to this board in the comment section of the return letter, saying that #1 diesels emit smoke and it is a fact. #2 I mentioned the 18 wheeler big rigs and buses that i see everyday emitting 10 times the amount of smoke that my truck does plus they are on the road 10 times more than me and #3 do not send me another notice such as this as it is a waste of their time as well as mine and nothing can be done about it and if they want to send this letter to someone it should be every car owner in southern Cali as we are probably the most poluting state in the nation right now.
Well, just had to get that off my chest and hope you guys feel the same. I just hate this, cuz I am not one to just tune my engine to blow all the smoke it can and smoke everyone on the road out everyday. This is just stupid that my truck was picked out of all the others on the road, to be the one who gets the letter and is now on the Air resources board hit list. I think I am gonna start anonomously reporting all the big rigs, buses and cars that I see emitting any smoke whether it is natural for the engine to do, like our diesels, or whether they are just burning oil or something.
Joe
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