You may want to seek out transport drivers. i.e. those who have 400k plus miles on a bunch of 2014 dodge 3500s, and 2015+ 6.7Ls. Personally the DPFs do more harm than good. The material takes such a drastic extraction process it cannot be mined in the U.S. for crying out loud. But were ok to tear up other countries and transport it on coal/diesel burnign ships across the ocean, then diesel trucks to the manufactures to make our "cleaner trucks" make us feel better. It puts immense wear to over fuel and burn the built up material in the dpf. I.E. using more fuel, wearing out the engine faster vs just letting the truck burn its needed amount.
case in point. The state of Washington removed their emissions test program Jan 2020 because a study they conducted from 1982 til now show it didn't do squat for their air quality. The modern vehicles are already burning at near peak efficiency to help curb whatever pollution they put out. Im not extremist tree hugger but I recycle in the right bins, don't pour my oil in the dirt, I fix my oil leaks, and maintain my vehicles. This gets rather political the further it goes but only you can decide whether its worth deleting or not. There are some strong arguments for both sides but I feel keeping a vehicle on the road longer vs buying a new vehicle every few yrs saves more resources than an expensive DPF system on a mostly plastic truck.
You could disassemble my 1999 7.3l and a 2017 6.7l It took way more resources and had 10x the environmental impact to build and use a 6.7l then the earlier trucks. Im not hear to say don't buy a new truck its your money but delete vs don't delete its based on whether your state requires it for dmv registration/inspection and personal preference.
case in point. The state of Washington removed their emissions test program Jan 2020 because a study they conducted from 1982 til now show it didn't do squat for their air quality. The modern vehicles are already burning at near peak efficiency to help curb whatever pollution they put out. Im not extremist tree hugger but I recycle in the right bins, don't pour my oil in the dirt, I fix my oil leaks, and maintain my vehicles. This gets rather political the further it goes but only you can decide whether its worth deleting or not. There are some strong arguments for both sides but I feel keeping a vehicle on the road longer vs buying a new vehicle every few yrs saves more resources than an expensive DPF system on a mostly plastic truck.
You could disassemble my 1999 7.3l and a 2017 6.7l It took way more resources and had 10x the environmental impact to build and use a 6.7l then the earlier trucks. Im not hear to say don't buy a new truck its your money but delete vs don't delete its based on whether your state requires it for dmv registration/inspection and personal preference.
