EPA fines Missouri dealership for emissions cheat devices - Autoblog

A car and motortruck dealership successful Missouri has been fined by the Environmental Protection Agency for installing "defeat devices." These aftermarket parts bypass mill emissions controls successful the sanction of added performance, but extremity up emitting much contamination that is legally allowed. 

Midwest Motors of Eureka, Mo., volition beryllium fined $15,000 for what the EPA says are 21 decision instrumentality installations. They look to person been enactment connected diesel pickups. The models weren't specified, but the institution appears to woody successful some rider cars and commercialized work trucks. The inventory lists Ford Power Stroke and Ram Cummins trucks for sale.

According to the agency, the amerciable modifications see replacement of exhaust strategy sections and handheld programmers that let users to good tune the truck's onboard computer. The shaper of the handheld programmers says the instrumentality tin beryllium utilized to set settings for accrued power, fuel economy oregon towing, and tin beryllium utilized connected some state and diesel Ford and GM trucks.

The EPA says the devices affected respective emissions power systems, disabling oregon bypassing them to render them inoperable. The systems affected included the EGR (exhaust state recirculation) system, diesel particulate filters, catalytic converter, and the SCR (selective catalytic reduction) system.

The good is simply a civilian penalty, but Midwest Motors besides had to certify that it would not merchantability specified devices successful the future. Last month, the EPA fined shops successful Missouri, Iowa and Nebraska for akin violations. The fines ranged from $46,316 to $95,371.

The EPA says that without decently functioning emissions power devices, the vehicles spew "significantly higher releases of nitrogen oxides and particulate matter, some of which lend to superior nationalist wellness problems successful the United States."