Ready for some "Coaling"

[Greg Myers]

[DynoMight]

oh boy!

[Ace-Garageguy]

Got a little injection timing problem with the Dodge truck, eh?

[cobraman]

Pt looser. What the ?????????????????

[Joe Handley]

Uhg, those idiots.......

Edited August 6, 2014 by Joe Handley

[Longbox55]

Good way to wipe out the mains, coke up the turbo and the injectors, plus it's WASTED POWER!

[Scott Colmer]

Colbert did a funny segment on this. Said they spend a good deal of money to be able to do that. To me it ranks right up there with earthquake stereos.

[Greg Myers]

http://thecolbertreport.cc.com/videos/bfvmgh/coal-rolling

[Russell C]

New term on me. But there ain't no matching 'coal rolling' (actually oil rolling on this one) with a steam engine. Thick stuff at 55 seconds here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHI5VHBwIfI#t=56s

[Rob Hall]

Good way to wipe out the mains, coke up the turbo and the injectors, plus it's WASTED POWER!

And it's polluting...I've read the police are ticketing these imbeciles in some areas...morons.

[Joe Handley]

And it's polluting...I've read the police are ticketing these imbeciles in some areas...morons.

A friend of mine was pulled over because of one of these idiots a few years back. He was out running errands one saturday in his tweaked 6.0l PowerStroke SuperDuty and saw some knucklehead in a GMC K30 CUCV (think of it as basically "The Fall Guy" truck in camo) driving around doing just that. An hour or so later he gets pulled over for no obvious to him reason and the officer tells him that there had been a number of complaints coming in to dispatch about a diesel truck dumping black smoke everywhere. He had a low opinion of "coal rollers" before, and needless to say, even less when he found out why he was stopped, and not only told the officer this opinion, but also told him about that CUCV he saw earlier in the day figuring that it was probably the reason for all the calls the cops were getting. He wasn't mad at the officer that stopped him, but I probably wouldn't want to have been the CUCV driver if he had the opportunity to talk to that dipstick after getting stopped!

[Joe Handley]

Good way to wipe out the mains, coke up the turbo and the injectors, plus it's WASTED POWER!

Wasted power and fuel (still nearly $4/gal here for it too!), not to mention a road hazard. When the whole, "rolling coal as a political statement" stuff came out a couple weeks back, one of the commentors on the article I had read mentioned that there was a fatal wreck caused by that. Turns out a truck had filled an intersection with so much smoke that the smoke screan obscured other motorists vision that there was some sort of bad crash that ended up killing one of the people in the involved vehicles.

Also remember seeing a post on another forum a fee years back where one of the guys there saw a couple of these clowns in some sort of jacked up D-Max truck in a turn lane pump black smoke into the minivan next to them with the windows down! To make matters worse, it wasn't just Mom or Dad, it was both of them AND the kids?!?!?! The other forum member was one of those who stopped to help this family and said that the van was filled with that garbage and the whole family was covered in diesel soot too. IIRC, the guy wanted to go find those guys and knock them around a bit for what they did to that family.

[slusher]

Pt looser. What the ?????????????????

I agree the PT Cruiser just looks wrong...

[mnwildpunk]

I never understood why this is a fad but a lot of the custom car/truck fads of today I don't understand. I sometimes wonder if these trends get started by replacement part manufacturers.

[DrGlueblob]

Slashed big truck tires get mighty expensive...

[Harry P.]

I've seen some really stupid automotive fads before... really stupid. But I've never seen one this stupid. Unbelievable how clueless some people are.

[DynoMight]

I can understand sitting at a intersection and pulling off and rolling a little, like a semi truck, but not sitting at a intersection, revving your engine, and "rolling coal yuck yuck"

[Modelmartin]

Those morons like to do it to cyclists also. There is no end to stupidity of some humans on this planet.

[southpier]

truck

nuts

[Harry P.]

Those morons like to do it to cyclists also. There is no end to stupidity of some humans on this planet.

In the Colbert video it says modifying a truck to do that can cost $5,000... plus the cost of the wasted fuel. All of that to make a "statement?" The only statement I'm getting is "Hey, look at me... I'm a complete moron."

[Dave Van]

In the Colbert video it says modifying a truck to do that can cost $5,000... plus the cost of the wasted fuel. All of that to make a "statement?" The only statement I'm getting is "Hey, look at me... I'm a complete moron."

We have a few of those idiots around here.........12 inch diameter chrome stacks blowing tons of black smoke.....then they laugh at me in my Smart car.......which cost new less than their 'stacks' and could run a month on what they waste in a hour......

[Joe Handley]

Those morons like to do it to cyclists also. There is no end to stupidity of some humans on this planet.

They'll do it to cyclists, Prius' (any hybrid or electric really), "ricers"........even though they're the diesel truck equivalent, ect.

[Mike Kucaba]

"There is no end to stupidity of some humans on this planet. "

Andy, Your giving the knuckledraggers that do this way too much credit by putting them in the human race.

Hopefully the Darwin theory will rid the earth of this ilk.

[Ace-Garageguy]

...Hopefully the Darwin theory will rid the earth of this ilk.

Unfortunately, evolution isn't making the human species smarter. Just the opposite, in fact. Evolution isn't driven to improve a species. Rather, it simply favors whoever can breed the fastest and make the most babies, who breed the fastest and make more babies, etc.

Because it's SO easy, relatively, to survive and breed in the developed world (no lions to eat you, free food if you qualify: 20% of households on food stamps in 2013, according to one source, etc.) and because the people with ability and brains seem to be breeding at a reduced rate (sometimes because they have respect for the planet, and realize there's a finite limit to how many people our little globe can support), it's generally the folks who have the least smarts and the least to offer who are breeding the fastest.

Granted, some of the rapid-breeders are going to have really smart offspring, but natural selection isn't selecting for "smart". It's selecting for "pregnant at 12 years old".

Dumb and irresponsible is coming on strong, and until there are SO many idiots that things just slow down and stop (because there aren't enough folks smart enough to run them anymore...look at banking, for instance, and our recent global financial fiasco...just the tip of the iceberg...and don't forget our crumbling infrastructure), dumb and useless is the fastest-growing segment of the population.

[slusher]

Those morons like to do it to cyclists also. There is no end to stupidity of some humans on this planet.

In the Colbert video it says modifying a truck to do that can cost $5,000... plus the cost of the wasted fuel. All of that to make a "statement?" The only statement I'm getting is "Hey, look at me... I'm a complete moron."

Saw on CNN that they like doing it to people walking along country roads with children and some still had side exhaust..