nlambert182
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- Huntsville, AL
- Ram Year
- 2018
- Engine
- 6.7 Cummins
I’m talking to the OP, he’s the one introducing the L-word. Considering he’s in NY, it’s pointless to be advising him to go down that road.
But I’m certainly willing to learn something new, if you can show any official statement or statute in Alabama “allowing” removal of emissions equipment I’d love to see it. To the best of my knowledge it’s essentially “don’t ask - don’t tell”.
As a point of clarification, none of this means I’m in favor of increased regulation. Far from it. From my perspective, it’s merely financial prudence to understand the consequences of modifications. I, too, live in a state that doesn’t give any effort to enforcement. But you can’t trade in a vehicle any more without the dealer requiring a written statement of
I am merely making a point in MY area and I caveat what I say (as I did above), so I am not telling the OP to delete their vehicle. As I said before, Alabama does not penalize anyone (aside from DOT with a commercial OTR truck) for deleting their truck. You'd be hard pressed to find any LEO in my state willing to write you for a delete kit. It's just not on the radar. I have family that are state troopers, one city LEO (South Alabama), and two county LEOs (one in North and one in South AL). We've had these discussions and the comments were all the same. If you want to do it, do it. We have other things more important than crawling around under your truck to see if you have a dpf on it.
I get that every state is different, but we're all really just commenting using our personal experiences, right? My experiences in AL are that deletes are acceptable and do not prohibit shops from working on them nor dealerships from trading them in. I just sold my fully deleted 2016 3500 to the BMW dealership here in January. There were no questions asked, nor documents required to be signed stating the emissions equipment was still in tact. They did not care. The shop that installed my exhaust after my delete, did not care that there was no emissions equipment installed. They simply installed what I asked, I paid, and we parted ways. No paperwork aside from an invoice.
More importantly to my point, I also told the OP that I wouldn't shy away from one that needs to maintain the emissions equipment either. These trucks are still built extremely well and there shouldn't be concern of injector failure at 100k miles (given proper maintenance) or really any other major engine flaw aside from the CP4 issues. If the emissions system fails, replace it. Keep on top of regen cycles, etc.. and get another 100-150k trouble-free miles out of it. More importantly than talking about deletes and their legality, I don't want the OP thinking that a newer Cummins is going to require major overhaul work at 100k miles. That's just not true.