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Originally Posted by ken0042
Depends. If you bought a vehicle based on your environmental footprint, you didn't get what you paid for. The biggest thing is resale- it will be much harder to sell the vehicle, and you will get less money for it.
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I would bet that most car consumers think of fuel economy as the only measure of a vehicles environmental footprint. If that is true, the only way the fuel economy changes is if you let them fix the computer program to produce cleaner emissions at the expense of fuel economy. If they aren't forced to correct the issue then it is the environment that suffers, not the consumer.
The same thing applies to anyone who has a diesel truck and puts in a chip to double the fuel economy by bypassing the DEF and whatever else and spewing out all kinds of pollution. (I don't know what it actually does, but the guys who do it swear it cranks up their mileage a ton.)