No, this does not give people permissions to do thees things...

[Rawze]

No, this does not give people permissions to de-regulate their equipment ...
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/justice-dep...ing-cases/

Personally, I think the article's tone is wrong any ways. - It touts that people are wanting to hack their vehicles get better power and/or fuel mileage ... but the reality is that most people resort to removing those systems because it causes WAAAAYYY to much down-time, high repair costs associated with them, and has put many truck owner out of business, simply running off to the stealers$its and wasting moneys on aftertreatment systems that they themselves (the OEM stealers$its) cannot keep running properly due to poor training and everything about them kept in the dark.

[mikkhh]

Well at least in Sweden new military trucks were bought that had ZERO aftertreatment, ZERO DOC DPF EGR on them. Those trucks are on the roads too transporting equipment. Some of those trucks have got older PDE engines on them so no commonrail and grenading high pressure fuel pumps. I wonder if those trucks can be registered for road use after decomissioning.


https://www.nkp.se/2025/03/18/forsvaret-...ass-45283/

Seems just like the average small guy is getting punished and forced those mandates.

[marek4792]

Now you got people on the interwebs talking about solar flares possibly putting us back to the stone age, and our governments probably wanting to have their mechanical diesels and gassers back for such cause.. Rules for thee but not for me. Basically means EPA isn't going after Timmy for deleting, but a ticket happy municipality like everyone's favorite west coast state may or may not throw the book at you..