Tonight I got stuck in the 100-meter-long billowing smoke cloud of exhaust from some loser’s old scooter with green license plates. I used to call the EPA to report such incidents and get these inconsiderate assholes off the street, but eventually the phone number I used to call stopped working. Does anyone have the new one? Did a search but couldn’t find a relevant thread.
Anyway, it’s a bit of a hassle, but there is a Chinese-language website for reporting these, so if you see a really egregious example, you can have a local friend help you make the report here.
Tonight at least, DWH-506 has been turned in. I swear I was really tempted to run them off the road and do something I might regret. :fume: I mean REALLY tempted.
I want to report a heavy, noxious-gas bearing vehicle. It cut me off as it veered wildly to the right and left me dazed in a cloud of obnoxious recycled hot wind. The licence plate was F.R.E.D S.M.I.T.H.
I don’t think scooters are that big of a problem. Out of the 100s I pass a day I may see one with white smoke coming from it.
The bigger problem is the trucks on major roads and motorways.
I would say 70% of them spew out black smoke and they shouldn’t be on the roads.
I pass loads of these everyday.
Now I’ve been stopped at a check point (they took a photo and gave me a form to be taken to a mechanic and returned within a week) about making sure my bike wasn’t a polluting the air.
Who the hell checks these trucks? Are there money filled brown envelopes being passed around?
And if anyone wants to report them. Make sure you get the number on the front of the truck, not the number on the trailer.
Yes it is 'scooters. The rat wad old 2-stroke 'scooters smoke the hell out of the environment.
I tried developing a 2nd income from the old # and soon discovered they 1)Didn’t want to pay 2)Removed the emgrish speaking person from answering calls.
Oh, the old scooters with green plates are the worst.
As for the payoff, I don’t think it’s that the EPA doesn’t pay. Rather, it’s that they send a notice telling the offender to appear for an emissions test. If the test is failed, the offender is fined and you may get a kickback. But I guess what really happens is that the offender then takes it to a mechanic for a tuneup or something, so it ends up passing the test.
In the end you don’t earn your bit, but you do your bit for the environment – which is worth it!
I would say the worst is the people that buy the cheapest two stroke oil they can find and then to make shure the engine get enough lubrication they add 5dl in the gasoline per 1L gasoline.
Then it’s the old 4 strokes that could probartly replace the original piston with a overbore without doing annything to the cylinder and those that toop up there crankcase.
I think must trucks are ok, but could nead change off nozles.
You have to JOIN (加入會員) and then you have a username and password; after that you can file reports. You need a local to help you if you’re not fluent in Chinese, sorry!
[quote=“Dragonbones”]I told you it was in Chinese, you silly rabbit!
You have to JOIN (加入會員) and then you have a username and password; after that you can file reports. You need a local to help you if you’re not fluent in Chinese, sorry![/quote]
I don’t find 加入會員 on the main page. From where did you reach it?
[quote=“engerim”][quote=“Dragonbones”]I told you it was in Chinese, you silly rabbit!
You have to JOIN (加入會員) and then you have a username and password; after that you can file reports. You need a local to help you if you’re not fluent in Chinese, sorry![/quote]
I don’t find 加入會員 on the main page. From where did you reach it?[/quote]
There’s a picture of a girl; click on that and you get a pull-down menu (not obvious, I know):
Also, to the right there’s a pink speech balloon, with those words in a rectangular orange link box, like this:
[quote=“Dragonbones”][quote=“engerim”][quote=“Dragonbones”]I told you it was in Chinese, you silly rabbit!
You have to JOIN (加入會員) and then you have a username and password; after that you can file reports. You need a local to help you if you’re not fluent in Chinese, sorry![/quote]
I don’t find 加入會員 on the main page. From where did you reach it?[/quote]
There’s a picture of a girl; click on that and you get a pull-down menu (not obvious, I know):
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Well, it hasn’t been exactly lucrative, but in return for my extensive efforts to get very smoky vehicles pulled in for testing over the last 4 years I have received from the EPA one Audiovox portable DVD player (which I just picked up today, haven’t opened, and am considering selling since I’m not sure what I would ever use it for), and also about NT$700 in 7-11 vouchers, eight or so reusable shopping bags (cheap), seven or eight sets of reusable spoon, fork and chopstick sets in travel packs, and twenty or so small notepads.
Maybe someone here can help me out… long story short… I just got a scooter that happens to blow out a pretty good amount of smoke. I don’t want to be an asshole on the road with a smokey scooter.
What can I do? Does anyone have any idea what it would cost to have it fixed so it doesn’t spew smoke?
