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There is a large truck repair garage right across the street from me. Whenever they get stumped on a german car, they usually just farm it out to me.
I went to look at an x3 there yesterday with a horrible rod knock, and got to talking with them about all the new trucks sitting around without motors
Apparently , you can purchase a brand spanking new Peterbuilt ( or any brand for that matter) sans engine
This company then retrofits them with old school mechanically injected diesel motors, or at least pre emissions engines, and then they do what Pa calls an enhanced inspection to declare them road worthy, and safe.
Seems that this is a pretty popular move for medium sized trucking companies, and leasing companies . They say that they do hundreds of them every year.
It is all about skirting new emissions regulations, as they are super problematic, and cause lots of down time, and lost revenue for the companies.
I had never heard of this before . I always wondered what was going on down there, because there is always 4 or 5 brand new trucks,without engines, and they are also always buying wrecked semi trucks and dismantling them .