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Ebay Could Owe $1.9 Billion in Fines for Allowing Sale of 343,000 Emissions Defeat Devices (www.thedrive.com)
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Ebay Could Owe $1.9 Billion in Fines for Allowing Sale of 343,000 Emissions Defeat Devices::The Department of Justice alleges that eBay illegally sold 343,011 emissions defeat devices, and could face billions in penalties.

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[–] [email protected] 81 points 10 months ago (4 children)

The bigger story is:

Who are those 343,011 idiots?

[–] [email protected] 43 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

I'm sure some of them are idiots. I'm also sure there are some people who needed a car to work, catalytic converter went out and they needed to find the cheapest possible way to pass emissions and keep getting to work.

I know that because I'm about to drop a thousand or 2 on my catalytic converter, which I'll have to install myself to save money, to pass emissions. Luckily, I can budget well and every car repair known to man is on YouTube

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

Someone needs to start a catalytic converter rental service where in they install a caddy so you can get your emissions done and then they install the bypass when they take the unit back so that you can cheat the system and look legit. /s

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

I feel like everyone should just share one catalytic converter if they're gonna cost that much

[–] [email protected] 34 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Lots of deisel guys will delete the system due to cost and complexity.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 10 months ago

My father did this, but he only did this because it was either delete the EGR or scrap the truck, a truck which, almost 9 years later, he has still not paid off. He had issues specifically with the emissions device and the work involved would have turned it into a Ship of Theseus

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Modern diesels are garbage due to their emissions technology. Oftentimes it costs an arm and a leg to fix that stuff, so lots of situations where you either delete those things or write off the vehicle.

The used market of the older diesels proves this, early 2000s trucks are crazy expensive because they are the last models without emissions stuff

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Number seems small tbh, there's millions of people in Texas