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Diesel shop fined $10M for making and selling Emissions Defeat Devices


It was caught selling, installing, and manufacturing tuning devices that imitated another company’s products.

The DOJ published a press release earlier this week that named Rudy’s Performance Parts and its owner Aaron Rudolf for making, selling, and installing emissions defeat devices. “For too many years, companies like Rudy’s have installed illegal defeat devices to evade the public health protections of the Clean Air Act, to the detriment of communities across America,” said Assistant Administrator David M. Uhlmann of EPA’s Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance. Going forward, the consent decree requires Rudy’s and Rudolf to stop providing technical support for the defeat devices, deny all warranty claims, and instruct authorized dealers to do the same, among other things.

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