This is an interesting thought about Diesel trucks and their drivers:

Taken from a public forum:
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"The problem is now you have all the people with their diesel trucks and tuners blowing black smoke everywhere. They even refer to the black smoke setting on their tuners as the "fun" setting. I can't tell you how many times I hear diesel truck drivers talk about turning to the "fun" setting as they pass a hybrid or group of cyclists. Today's current diesel drivers are all to proud of the black smoke they can make."
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But unfortunately when Americans think of diesels they think of huge exhaust stacks pumoping out gobs of black smoke...
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I assume we aren't that bad, are we?

 

Truely...the black smoke is a huge black eye for all diesel owners

 

bicycle ******** deserve it

 

And there's the attitude that gets us DPF's and smog checks.

 

I find it real stupid that all the kids around me ask me how to make alot of smoke, a few of them have gotten tickets for excessive smoke, its a real good way to cause an accident and its dumb as hell. Thats why i refuse to help them untill they have something better in mind than just to make smoke, why not just put a glob of grease in your muffler and itl smoke all you want.

If you were to go drive my truck right now it would barely even make a haze only in-between the shifts cause i dont de-fuel inbetween them, other wise it is as clean as a stock diesel. why cause smoke is not power.

and you know what it will run a 12.9 in the 1/4 at in street trim.

 

I agree with 2500 the kids at my school have diesels and all they want is for theirs to smoke and it does because *no offense* certain programmer companies allow them to do that now if the companies could make the programmers make gobs of power with little smoke then i think public opinion would change drastically because you wouldnt have every teenager driving around rodding their engine and smoking like a train sure smoke is fun but not all the time.

 

these youngins just dunno anybetter!!!

 

yeah i know you see what i see all the time around town

 

I dunno, it diffinetly pisses some people off and it dosent help the gerneral publics oppinion of diesels but alot of time if i pass someone and my truck blows some smoke they usually give me the thumbs up. One time i smoked out a guy in an open top Mercedes cause he was tailgateing me and he followed me into work, appoligized and asked for some advice on modifying his Ford 6.0L work truck. Bottom line is that no matter what your never gonna please everyone.

 

The smoke issue is killing us. Sadly thats how people view diesel trucks as big coal rolling polluters. And to many young kids see smoke as power. I really wish tuners, especially EFI live guys, would quit writing tunes just for smoke. But its a free country, and your always gonna have those ********, just like the fart can hondas, and off roaders who won't stay on trails and clean up. The minority screw the majority.