This announcement is a formality.  Changes that we’ve been required to make have been made for some time.  Nothing is changing with the Accessport, Accessport functionality, or our product catalog. We’re excited to move forward and focus on the development of both existing and future platforms.

Press Release:

September 16, 2024 (Austin, Texas) COBB Tuning announced today that it has entered into a settlement agreement with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) over alleged violations of the Clean Air Act that occurred prior to August 28, 2017. EPA had alleged that COBB manufactured and sold certain aftermarket tuning devices, custom tuning software, and associated hardware packages which could be used to bypass, defeat, or render inoperative elements of a vehicles emissions control system. COBB has fully cooperated with EPA in its investigation of these claims and asserted to the EPA that COBB did not develop or market the products as emissions defeat devices. Further, COBB has provided documentation to the EPA verifying that it has successfully secured California Air Resources Board (CARB) Executive Orders (EO’s) or other third-party emissions certifications demonstrating that its entire product line, including all of the products included in the EPA Complaint, are compliant with emissions standards/regulations and the Clean Air Act.

After extensive discussions with the EPA regarding this matter, COBB has concluded that it is in the best interest of its customers, employees, distribution partners, and COBB to enter into this settlement agreement. In entering into this settlement, COBB does not admit to any liability regarding its products, conduct, transactions, or occurrences that have been alleged in the Complaint by the EPA.

Jeff King, COBB President and CEO stated, “We are proud of the leadership position that COBB Tuning has established providing emissions certified performance packages to the automotive enthusiast. We proactively started our Green Speed initiative with the goal of developing market leading, fully emissions certified performance solutions for our enthusiasts’ customers and their vehicles long before EPA contacted us about their concerns regarding how certain COBB products could be used – in an unintended manner –to sidestep vehicle emissions requirements. We have proactively worked with EPA to address these concerns and view this settlement as a next step in our Green Speed initiative.”

Mr. King continued, “By entering into this settlement, called a Consent Decree, we will be able to dedicate more time and organizational resources to the future of the performance tuning/vehicle customization market, and our commitment to delivering reliable, fun, and emissions certified performance solutions to the automotive enthusiasts.

He concluded by saying “As a company, we take our emissions stewardship seriously, and proactively addressed in real time each area of concern that the EPA identified with how some of our legacy products could be used in an unintended manner. We had to make difficult choices along the way regarding how and when to make changes to or discontinue certain products that the EPA identified as concerning. We always focused our decision-making process on implementing changes in a way that had the best interests of our enthusiast customers, distribution partners, and the environment in mind. Sometimes those were tough choices, which required immediate action in order to address EPA concerns. I am pleased to report that those product changes are behind us, and both our customers and distribution partners can be confident purchasing COBB products. Our entire product line is fully emissions compliant. Our Power Packages and calibrations/tunes deliver exciting performance and drivability enhancements for our customers’ vehicles. To date, we have received over 200 CARB EOs as well as multiple other third-party emissions certifications that cover our entire product range.”

COBB Tuning is an Austin, Texas based automotive technology company that is focused on the design and delivery of a software and hardware ecosystem featuring a curated vehicle upgrade/customization path of emissions certified packages for the performance enthusiasts. The company is hyper focused on delivering best-in-class customer service and delivering innovative and environmentally compliant power packages and vehicle customization solutions for the Subaru, Ford, Volkswagen, Porsche, Audi, Honda, Toyota, Mazda, Mitsubishi, Nissan, and BMW enthusiasts’ communities.