If there is no harmful effects of diesel emissions then get your dinner and place it under your non dpf filtered truck and rev the engine. I bet you wouldnt do that. The DPF doesnt mess up turbos at all... A system that was prematurely pushed into production that had way to many bugs is what caused the problems. . The same system in now in use on the 2010 trucks and turbo sooting is a thing of the past. The main change made to the truck was the programing of the ECM...Once you have your 07 truck updated, the soot build up problem is just about eliminated..
Also DPFs are being put on all diesel vehicles now, from OTR trucks to pump motors. like it or not get used to them. And if you do decide to take it off make sure you keep all your components because Diesel smog is coming. It will be expensive to buy if you throw it away.
Absolute ******** and here's why. There's not one fleet manager, truck driver, equipment operator, etc that I know that likes having them on their truck or machine. They reduce power and increase fuel consumption. They also cause downtime when the systems are not working. How do I know? I was dispatcher for a large civil general contractor last year. We had several trucks and pieces of equipment that had these things and they were broke down much more than the ones with the older systems. In order to get real users to use this garbage, the EPA is having to bribe them with grant money to equip their machines and even then, many owners are not going along with the program.
The only reason these things are coming is because people are too damned complacent and bow down to every dumb-assed regulation that comes down the pike. This all started in Commiefornia and it's spread like a cancer across the country because people buy into this ********. And this is one reason why new truck sales have plummeted in recent years. The people who know don't want it. City people might like it, but the rest of us don't. I'd love to see how much more this crap costs the owner over the life of a vehicle, as well as long term damage to the motor because of the restriction. My 17 year old truck with 180k miles on it runs great...will a DPF equipped truck be able to say the same? Not without a lot of money in replacement parts and repairs.
No I wouldn't put my dinner plate under my tailpipe; common sense dictates that. That would go for a diesel or a gas. If you think your exhaust after the DPF is so great, do the same. Guess what...you'll still get trash.
But if you want to keep your emissions crap and feel better about yourself, that's fine. I'm going to keep buying older trucks that I know will keep running without band-aids. You'll know it's me by the thick black cloud of death that I fart on you when your DPF is plugged and you're broke down on the side of the road.