To be sick to death of noisy cars

Dappy777 · 2025-01-31T22:58:03+00:00

Is anyone else sick of these idiots who drive round in noisy, souped up cars? The engines make a screeching, high-pitched sound, and they do something to the exhaust so it bangs and explodes. One of them accelerated past me and my five year old niece today and the sound was so awful she burst into tears. I can hear them right now, even though the windows are closed. They also wake me up at night. People round here have been complaining about this for ages. In fact, there are complaints on social media dating back over ten years. But the police just do NOTHING. No one expects the police to arrest every one of them, but if they’d only pull over one or two and fine them, news would soon spread on the idiot grapevine. Life in this village gets worse and worse every year - more and more houses, more and more traffic, and more and more noise.

Kaftanesque · 20/02/2025 17:59

Totally agree.Entitled and anti social idiots driving around in souped up cars give me the rage.And often the same drivers blasting out music so loud it makes your car vibrate if you're alongside them at the traffic lights .

Beautifulweeds · 20/02/2025 17:29

Completely with you, I hate them too. They are unbearably intrusive and annoying, pathetic really how anyone wants one, just why?

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Dappy777 · 01/02/2025 11:33

Calliecarpa · 01/02/2025 10:38

Ugh, there's a couple of these in my area too, and the noise they make is simply incredible. When the exhaust bangs, it sounds like a freaking bomb going off. I've been woken up a couple of times recently at 1am, 2am by these utter morons screeching around in their stupid loud moronic cars. Absolutely cannot bear it. There's a car park not too far from my house which they used to treat as a race track, revving their engines as loudly as possible and screaming around late at night. Thankfully the car park owners seem to have put a stop to that, and it very rarely happens any more.

We should take noise pollution much more seriously, especially on a small, crowded island like this, where we're stuck in small houses and flats jammed on top of one another. It ruins lives. I have know two people driven to suicide attempts by noisy neighbours. And I had a work colleague who ended up on anti-depressants because of the horrible, feral people who moved in next door.

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Calliecarpa · 01/02/2025 10:38

Ugh, there's a couple of these in my area too, and the noise they make is simply incredible. When the exhaust bangs, it sounds like a freaking bomb going off. I've been woken up a couple of times recently at 1am, 2am by these utter morons screeching around in their stupid loud moronic cars. Absolutely cannot bear it. There's a car park not too far from my house which they used to treat as a race track, revving their engines as loudly as possible and screaming around late at night. Thankfully the car park owners seem to have put a stop to that, and it very rarely happens any more.

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Dappy777 · 01/02/2025 10:32

I know the police are busy, and no one is expecting them to sit in wait until one of these idiots flies by, but if they'd just fine a couple now and then news would spread. So far as I understand, it is illegal to modify your exhaust so it makes that banging/backfiring sound. If that's the case, HOW do they get away with it? Have the police decided not to enforce this law?

Also, wtf is going on psychologically? If you love cars, then great. If you work hard and save your money and buy a nice car because that's your thing, good luck to you. But why go to all effort of modifying that car so it makes a hideous screeching, exploding sound? What is it with people. Why do they go to so much effort, and get so much pleasure, from hurting and upsetting others? Or is it that they just want attention?

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MasterBeth · 01/02/2025 10:17

ARealitycheck · 01/02/2025 00:07

Were none of you teenagers? It is the well known mating call of the teenage boy to have a shitty little car with a noisy exhaust. Without one a boy may as well enter the priesthood. 😂

No, it isn't. It is the mark of the teenage arsehole. I had better friends than yours

VoodooRajin · 01/02/2025 10:14

ARealitycheck · 01/02/2025 00:07

Were none of you teenagers? It is the well known mating call of the teenage boy to have a shitty little car with a noisy exhaust. Without one a boy may as well enter the priesthood. 😂

Nah, I've never been attracted to petrol heads

crackofdoom · 01/02/2025 09:49

ImustLearn2Cook · 01/02/2025 02:32

I hate it too. And plenty of teenage boys have better sense and basic consideration for others not to behave like this. So, it’s not an excuse.

It is a certain type of entitled person who gets off on disturbing other people for their own entertainment.

When I was a teenager most of my mates (girls and boys) thought of these people as try hard losers.

Given that my teenager and his mates refer to small cars with noisy modified exhausts as "shitboxes", it doesn't seem that much has changed.

ImustLearn2Cook · 01/02/2025 02:32

I hate it too. And plenty of teenage boys have better sense and basic consideration for others not to behave like this. So, it’s not an excuse.

It is a certain type of entitled person who gets off on disturbing other people for their own entertainment.

When I was a teenager most of my mates (girls and boys) thought of these people as try hard losers.

mjf981 · 01/02/2025 01:20

I'm on a rat run and its the motorbikes that do my head in. Rapid acceleration and very loud exhausts.Its so bloody annoying, loud and disrespectful. I hate it too.

ARealitycheck · 01/02/2025 01:18

DdraigGoch · 01/02/2025 00:50

Wasn't that what handbrake turns were for?

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Apparently a well known form of foreplay as described in Max Power magazine. A well executed handbrake turn could remove underwear and inhibitions in some young ladies. 😂

Lucybeary · 01/02/2025 01:00

MermaidMummy06 · 01/02/2025 00:22

We have a few around us now. They scream down our road at max noise, several times a day. You have to stop your conversation until they're well past the house. I especially hate my retired neighbour who works on his motorbike in his man cave, right near our living room door. He revs it up for 10-15 mins at a time and it makes me want to go over there & scream at him!

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WTF 'work' do they have to do to keep revving?

Ok, I don't really know but I have heard them go on all day. WTF are they doing?? 😂

DdraigGoch · 01/02/2025 00:50

ARealitycheck · 01/02/2025 00:07

Were none of you teenagers? It is the well known mating call of the teenage boy to have a shitty little car with a noisy exhaust. Without one a boy may as well enter the priesthood. 😂

Wasn't that what handbrake turns were for?

DdraigGoch · 01/02/2025 00:49

100PercentFaithful · 31/01/2025 23:40

I live in the countryside and it’s mainly really loud motorbikes here. They like to go out and race each other early in the morning, which in the summer drives me mad as I get woken at 5/6am pretty much every weekend. I live a mile away from the main road!!
We went to London at Xmas and there were some crazy loud cars there driving up by the designer shops.

I used to live in Llanberis. Motorbikes went through all the bloody time on their way to the Pass

HelpMeGetThrough · 01/02/2025 00:40

You can't help thinking these shitty exhausts and the stupid dump valves some have are, well, an extension of their "personality".

MermaidMummy06 · 01/02/2025 00:22

We have a few around us now. They scream down our road at max noise, several times a day. You have to stop your conversation until they're well past the house. I especially hate my retired neighbour who works on his motorbike in his man cave, right near our living room door. He revs it up for 10-15 mins at a time and it makes me want to go over there & scream at him!

GreenTeaLikesMe · 01/02/2025 00:17

In Paris, they have noise cameras now, a sensor combined with a camera.

ARealitycheck · 01/02/2025 00:16

5foot5 · 01/02/2025 00:12

But do these boys not realise that this just marks them out as complete and utter twats who no woman in her right mind would look twice at?

And don't get me started on motorbikers who have to sit there and rev and rev before they set off.

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Again they are teenage boys. With the fact their blood spends most of it's time below waist level and doesn't reach the brain is it a surprise. 😃

YeezysBeans · 01/02/2025 00:13

My six year old said this at bedtime tonight! We both agreed some cars are just ridiculously loud. If even a small child can see this I don't know what sort of IQ these car owners have going on. 🙄

There are a set of traffic lights near my house that unfortunately some drivers seem to like to use as a starting point for showing off to each other. Despite living near a main road there's no constant traffic noise, just these very jarring and very very loud cars that stand out as being on obnoxiously annoying.

5foot5 · 01/02/2025 00:12

ARealitycheck · 01/02/2025 00:07

Were none of you teenagers? It is the well known mating call of the teenage boy to have a shitty little car with a noisy exhaust. Without one a boy may as well enter the priesthood. 😂

But do these boys not realise that this just marks them out as complete and utter twats who no woman in her right mind would look twice at?

And don't get me started on motorbikers who have to sit there and rev and rev before they set off.

ARealitycheck · 01/02/2025 00:07

Were none of you teenagers? It is the well known mating call of the teenage boy to have a shitty little car with a noisy exhaust. Without one a boy may as well enter the priesthood. 😂

LameBorzoi · 31/01/2025 23:58

When you live in an area with a lot of electric cars, you start to feel this way about non electric cars.

iPreferBooks · 31/01/2025 23:43

YANBU - also autistic. Especially the cars with the loud bang type noises which make me physically wince and cover my ears. Same with police and ambulances but at least they have a valid reason.

Youngheartsalittletogetherness · 31/01/2025 23:40

Little fucker picks up his gf block of flats opposite us ,he drives into the carpark at high speed then proceeds to rev fuck out of it for five minutes before turning off ...why??
The high speed into the carpark is concerning as children live in the area oh and he tips his McDonald's crap on the road.

100PercentFaithful · 31/01/2025 23:40

I live in the countryside and it’s mainly really loud motorbikes here. They like to go out and race each other early in the morning, which in the summer drives me mad as I get woken at 5/6am pretty much every weekend. I live a mile away from the main road!!
We went to London at Xmas and there were some crazy loud cars there driving up by the designer shops.