Date: Sun, 1 Mar 1998 21:22:02 -0000
Reply-To: Larry Carter <lcarter@COWICHAN.COM>
Sender: Vanagon Mailing List <Vanagon@vanagon.com>
From: Larry Carter <lcarter@COWICHAN.COM>
Subject: Re: re; smog sympathies
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Well Scot those are your regulations, not mine. Also I'm curious what
makes you feel you're right, and everybody else is wrong. Could it be your
blinkers? Not everybody lives in California, or the USA for that matter.
Not everybody has been (?) educated (?) into believing all this nazilike
eco-terrorism that has become so fashionable, and so costly. As for
experience; I'm a 50 year old heavy-duty mechanic, what they call a donkey
doctor in the logging camp I worked in for the last 24 years. "With a deep
love of things mechanical stretching back to the early 50's. Most of the
lessons that life have taught me have had little to do with regulations,
mostly hands-on in your face stuff. I've had enough VWs over the years,
that I know when it's running good. I won't be consulting your CARB or EPA
to verify this for me.
About this OBD 11 thing, are you telling me your in favor of this? Is it
the Hippie in me that causes the alarm bells to go off? This is
big-brotherism big time, and you should wake up to this. Or am I wrong? Is
this the way everybody wants it? I guess you have spotted the cultural
differences by now,damn, I was going to hide that. Larry Carter
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> From: Scot Douglas <sdoug@concentric.net>
> To: Larry Carter <lcarter@COWICHAN.COM>
> Cc: Vanagon@VANAGON.COM
> Subject: Re: re; smog sympathies
> Date: Monday, March 02, 1998 2:40 AM
>
> Larry Carter wrote:
> > I realize that not everyone can do what I've done to clean up the
> > air they breathe, but I don't think my gutted cat is putting any strain
on
> > global ecological picture. Go ahead and snipe away, I won't change my
> > stance.
>
> I appreciate your view on this issue Larry, but I must insist on saying
> one thing: Every car must be maintained to the original emission
> specification it is certified as. Period.
>
> Instead, we keep striving toward stricter regulations to compensate for
> the people that think they get a little more power from a gutted cat or
> those that drive cars that were built before strict regulation. The
> same people that shitcan their EGR valves, remove fuel injection to go
> an aftermarket carburetor that makes the vehicle seem to run better by
> being overly rich.
>
> Do you have any idea what a problem improper vehicle maintenance is?
> You've heard of OBD II? It's the current vehicle's (96 MY and newer)
> self diagnostic system that senses when any part of the emission system
> or related part fails and illuminates a check engine light (MIL). The
> dealer can then check the code that the ECU stores and replace the
> defective part. I hear alot of people that disconnect the light and
> ignore it. The EPA / CARB has decided this little light might not be
> enough and are considering OBD III; can you say big brother (sic)? The
> focus of OBD III is to *Alert* the dealership via whatever
> communications necessary at the time of the MIL illumination. They will
> then send you a reminder via mail or whatever telling you your car needs
> service. How long will it be before you can be issued a violation
> because you've ignored the warnings?
>
> In closing, if every person decided to take the same viewpoint as Larry
> (and many do, I'm also guilty of a past vehicle), the air quality will,
> if not continue to deteriorate, recover at a far slower rate.
>
> Besides, how much does a replacement catalytic converter cost?
>
> --
> Best Regards,
> Scot Douglas
> Project Engineer; Chrysler/Mitsubishi Joint Programs
> Mitsubishi Motors R&D of America
> P: (313) 971-0900 x32
> F: (313) 971-0901
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