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Your cart is empty.BD Diesel 2001102 Variable Vane Exhaust Brake The variable vane turbocharger design used in diesels today to reduce turbo lag, emissions and increase power can also be used to slow you down. BD utilizes this technology by electronically closing off the turbine vanes which can create up to 130 retarding horsepower. This braking force will help to maintain your speeds on descents and curves, giving you better control of your truck and load.The rotary switch offers three different modesStockVane Control OnlyVane Control with Aggressive DownshiftEasily and simply installs in approximately 1-hour by plugging into existing factory ports, tapping one wire and by mounting the rotary switch on your dash.Test shows that the BD brake was equal to or had better performance than our competitors brake at slowing down the vehicle.Approximately 70 psi of back pressure generated with BDs Variable Vane Exhaust Brake.
Brian M
Reviewed in the United States on April 9, 2024
Product as described, makes a huge difference in braking. Love it for hauling or running empty, the truck pulls anything but the biggest concern was always braking, especially in an emergency, this helps a lot. Plugged in and works!Bought my 2nd one, works in both my F350 and F550
John Barrett
Reviewed in the United States on August 20, 2021
The brake keeps putting my 2013 f350 6.7 into limp mode so I contacted BD and asked why and fords software in the truck don’t recognize the exhaust brake and there’s nothing I can do so I asked them why there selling a brake that doesn’t work in the Ford trucks and they didn’t have an answer so pretty much wasted $600 dollars on something I can’t use
Gee
Reviewed in the United States on January 1, 2021
Does what it says it’s supposed to, at least so far. Installed today on my 2012, install was okay but aggregating pulling intake. Driving impressions, no trailer and no load on truck, made a difference on level 1 but nothing exciting, Level 2 is pretty aggressive running empty and no load but I’m a little leery about loading heavy and using because of how aggressive it appears empty. Let’s face it, powerstrokes don’t handle as much back pressure as a Cummins and exhaust braking has not ever been a strong suite for the fords. For $600 it’s a good upgrade form the little experience I have had with it so far.
Customer
Reviewed in the United States on October 14, 2020
After a month I realized it doesn't do as advertised. I only found out because my truck started throwing codes, my mechanic took it off and all the turbo codes went away. Now of course the return window is closed
Eric Canady
Reviewed in the United States on November 28, 2019
Couldn't find many reviews on this product in my application, a 2011 Ford F350 6.7 Powerstroke. I installed it and love it! Being that exhaust brake feature was what I missed the most compared to my 2012 Ram, this completes my truck.
M. M..
Reviewed in the United States on November 20, 2018
It is perfect. Use as directed and it slows vehicle down pulling a 17,000 pound trailer.
Customer
Reviewed in the United States on May 26, 2017
So far it's been very disappointing, I've had the truck back in the shop three times since installation and it's still not working properly. I'm not sure if it's the exhaust brake or the installation but either way I'd like my "old truck" back.
smoker
Reviewed in the United States on March 17, 2016
Works great, was exactly what we wanted
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