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I actually often leave a brick on my gas pedal in my driveway to fill my entire neighborhood with billowing clouds of soot.
One of my neighbors voted for Walter Mondale back in the day so this is my way of sticking it to him.
That's really funny. I used to have a neighbor who did that all the time, too. Left his truck parked right next to my house, and smoked me out every morning. It was hilarious; dude had a great sense of humor.
I dunno, though. I'm thinking it must have some sort of detrimental mechanical effect on the vehicle somehow. Because his truck kept having all sorts of mysterious things go wrong with it. Contaminated gas, oil in the cooling system, antifreeze in the oil, then one day he lost a wheel because all of the lug nuts on that wheel somehow came loose at the same time... it was all very strange. You wouldn't think there could be any connection between all of those issues, but for as long as he lived there and kept smoking out the neighborhood, that truck seemed to be in the shop more often than it was in his driveway.
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That's really funny. I used to have a neighbor who did that all the time, too. Left his truck parked right next to my house, and smoked me out every morning. It was hilarious; dude had a great sense of humor.
I dunno, though. I'm thinking it must have some sort of detrimental mechanical effect on the vehicle somehow. Because his truck kept having all sorts of mysterious things go wrong with it. Contaminated gas, oil in the cooling system, antifreeze in the oil, then one day he lost a wheel because all of the lug nuts on that wheel somehow came loose at the same time... it was all very strange. You wouldn't think there could be any connection between all of those issues, but for as long as he lived there and kept smoking out the neighborhood, that truck seemed to be in the shop more often than it was in his driveway.
By this, you're not condoning tampering with another person's vehicle, and hence endangering the lives of innocent road users, are you?
BTW... I'm a Very avid biker, ecologist and diesel owner (over 40 of them at the moment)
50 mpg since 1976, where have you been? (Prius owners LOVE my bumper sticker)
Sorry to confuse you old man, but I think you understood the expression. Besides a biker, ecologist and diesel owner, you are a know it all to many. You are the one person that is on ignore by more people than anyone else here. There is a reason for that, thanks for reminding me to add myself to the people who put you on ignore.
Was there sometimes a potato like build up in the tail pipe?
Ummmm.... I do recall something that smelled like burning bananas. But that might have just been a residual odor from the dead ducks that somehow kept getting stuck inside of his hubcaps.
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By this, you're not condoning tampering with another person's vehicle, and hence endangering the lives of innocent road users, are you?
Please don't interrupt me while I'm channeling Will Rogers!
I've been driving diesels for decades. "Rolling coal" intentionally is just a stupid act by moron drivers. All that is coming out of the tailpipe is partially burned or unburned fuel that has done NOTHING to propel the vehicle. The sign of a good diesel driver is NO smoke, not a lot of it.
Oh, and drivers of gasoline engine vehicles who floor it away from a stoplight are equally as stupid--the only difference is that all of the unburned or partially burned gasoline that is pouring out of the tailpipe does not contain visible particulates, but it's still wasteful and inefficient.
When I'm paying $3.00 or more per gallon (sometimes way more) for fuel, the last thing that I want is to pour it out of the tailpipe without that fuel doing any work to move the vehicle. Wasting fuel by "rolling coal" is more stupid than throwing $5 bills out the window for no reason at all.
Never on purpose-I don't see the reason. I did notice one time....a line of bicyclists was holding up a whole line of traffic. Too self absorbed to bother pulling over for a mile or two. Cars worked their way past this rolling roadblock one at a a time. I had my diesel Dodge, and happened to be pulling a trailer with a tractor. Downshifted a couple gears and floored it to pass...noticed a nice little cloud in my rear view. No regrets for smoking that group of d-bags, but even then it wasn't deliberate. Unless under load modern diesels don't smoke (stock) and then only slightly.
Diesel is an official carcinogen. I'd like to see some of those losers sued if it was caught on video by the right person. They should be investigating YouTube videos if anyone would testify. Slob hunters have already been caught that way; same mentality of disrespect.
Rolling coal represents the GOP at its worst: "We don't care about air pollution, nor do we care about your health." "But we're the good guys, of course. We can quote from the Book of Psalms and pet a Rottweiler puppy."
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