COBB Tuning Products, a Texas-based manufacturer of aftermarket tuning products for cars, agreed to pay a $2.9 million penalty for selling products that allowed customers to bypass emission control devices Monday.
The company must remove the bypass capabilities from its software and destroy any hardware products, according to a suit and consent decree filed in the US District Court for the Western District of Texas.
Off-the-shelf products and custom tuning softwares shut off systems in light-duty vehicles that curtail emissions in accordance with the Clean Air Act, the suit said. COBB had sold at least 81,000 of these products since ...
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