To be sick to death of noisy cars

Why dont we treat acting like a twat in a car as a child protection issue - after all thats one of the many things it is.

Off to the kiddy fiddlers wing at Strangeways followed by a few decades of registering with the Police and not being allowed in the front seat let alone drive any vehicle

I bought a house on a main-ish road so I expected some car noise however, we are on a 20mph stretch and the sheer amount of cars that whizz up here at at least 50 in their really noisy cars like you described is insane! Not mentioning the one person that goes up and down the road at various times with their hand on the horn the whole frikkin way. My 11 year old gets woken up a lot which isn't ideal but the baby is yet to go in her room and that, I can imagine, is going to be a nightmare for a while as some of them wake her up in our room which is round the back.

Or under the influence of nitrous oxide

I've been in that position at our last house and at times it could go on night after night. The police said to keep ringing on the 101 to report it but it'd put me through to a central call centre 26 miles away and that's if I could get through! The local police wouldn't come out at night and do anything to stop it!

On a Friday & Saturday there was one particular prick who went through a phase for months of driving around the district banging his exhaust pipe til 5am! They kept asking me to get his reg number, but by the time the little filth had sped past the house and I'd got to the window from my bed I had no chance. I actually said to the coppers, have I got to stand on the street in the dark to wait for him at night to get the reg number because you won't come and lie in wait for him? I was so annoyed because they'd regularly have the speed vans out in the day trying to get people doing 35 in a 30 but they wouldn't come out at night when the roads are free for all.

These young lads in cars now are mostly nowhere near mature enough to be behind the wheel! There's a reason these ridiculous modifications are illegal and one reason is because it's distracting for them driving when they are blasting themselves with noise! They are driving around like dickheads at great risk to themselves and everybody else. A few months back, a car full of these idiots raced up the hill and through a village near me, flew around a bend in the village on the wrong side of the road and hit another car! Luckily the guy in the other car wasn't seriously hurt but one of the lads in the offending car was killed and there was an outpouring of grief for him locally but toxic turds can still at times be heard racing up that hill. The kid that died got in a car knowing his mate doing the driving was over the limit on alcohol too, it's only a miracle more passengers in that car didn't die and that the people they hit didn't die.

And I get extremely frustrated with parents who just let their sons go out to play in cars at night! How do they go to bed at night and not worry! How can they sleep when they know that they run the high risk of getting that knock on the door! If I had an adolescent son with a car, I'd seize his keys at night and if he gets in anybody else's car whilst they race like an idiot, he won't get his keys back. Parents have a duty to try and stop it happening! A son of mine wouldn't be having a bang bang pipe and stupid modifications on his car either, like others have said how many of these cars have got valid insurance when they are putting stupid undeclared mods on them.

I think you have to be careful about using 999 for things like that because most boy racers aren't drunk and it's one thing to be driving behind someone who is swerving all over the road or you've witnessed someone drinking all night in the pub and then they've got in a car because then you've got grounds to call 999, hearing a car isn't proof that anyone is drunk and it don't think it would go down well making a 999 call for a noise nuisance! I've been in Dappys position and you are not told to use 999 to report it, you are told to use 101.

Have you rung the Police - I would use 999 as they are still there and probably drunk

See, read and get angry

While it relates to number plates its indicative of a series of passive governments who cant be bothered to get the basics right and allowed crime to flourish

https://www.pacts.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/Ghost-Plate-Inquiry-1.pdf

If I have gas work done then it has to be by someone qualified so why not on a car?

Oh and bang goes your qualification if you illegally modify a vehicle

I don’t know why they can’t prosecute / shut down any mechanics / garages who modify cars and confiscate them from anyone who does it to their own car. More needs to be done about these selfish morons .

This sort of stuff is easily dismissed as low level nuisance but it absolutely isn’t depending on where you live.

car modifications?

Not clearly all forms of offending but many are done to earn money somewhere

I'm fiercely left wing and sick of scummy antisocial neighbours. There's nothing I can do though. I can't raise my head above the parapet and start a little community group as the scum will target me and I'll get a brick through my window.

I am a bit lost. How does driving an anti social car produce income? As a parent, I know these cars cost money rather than make money.

Yes! Also a Labour voter who hates antisocial behaviour.

It has been a massive problem around here. They would meet every Friday and Saturday night in a local carpark (which was next to retirement flats/sheltered housing) and play loud music, rev their engines, pop and bang, and screech their tyres until 2 or 3 in the morning. It was upsetting a lot of people, especially those very nearby but the sound travels so it affected people further away too. I think they believe they are characters from Fast and Furious or something.

Anyway, after years of complaints, reports to the police (which were initially ignored), a few serious injuries where cars drifted into crowds of people watching, and getting local councillors involved it does seem to have stopped.

All the time, when people complained on local FB groups, the people involved would come on and defend what they were doing. They would claim they should be provided with somewhere they could use. No concept that somebody would have to pay for that and that if it were provided it would have to be insured, risk assessed, stewarded properly etc. Which would all cost (presumably the tax payer) a lot of money. We'd all love to have expensive hobbies paid for wouldn't we!

because a lot of offending behaviour produces income that should be taxed.............

I wish someone would tell the late middle aged man who drives through our beautiful peaceful village at 5.30am each morning in his souped up Mazda convertible, banging as he slows down, banging as he accelerates around the corner of our house and my bedroom. Total knob.

How would the HMRC get involved?

Honestly legal change and the attention that would brings means signing those parliamentary petition above is the best way for people who care about this kind of noise harassment to actually act. It’s also the best time to do it, with a massive Labour majority of MPs.
The best is signing AND writing in your own words to your local MP, because the only solution is to get something much stricter on this issue into law.

Only doing that will give the powers to compel government agencies like HMRC, DVLA to do more about it and will scare off the people and garages and suppliers who do this. They do not care about the current £50 fine mentioned upthread, clearly. It’s insultingly weak.

As a sleep deprived mum with autistic DC terrified by this noise out in the street and audible while we’re at home. it’s a big quality of life issue. All of us in the UK will be living more and more closer together all the time because of cost of housing, it’s just not OK to be an aggressive, antisocial dick to other people like this.

this petition on fining the loud exhausts
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/722204

This one on giving more tools to measure the noise
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/734189

The issue isn't so much the legislation but having people not just police but HMRC. DVSA local authorities etc to do it

The penalty for being a twat isn't so much a trip to the vets but getting your car seized having to go to interviews court etc

I don’t disagree with you but just so you know I have voted Labour all my life and I also really care about antisocial behaviour.. not sure it’s as simple as left/right political split.
Weve had 13 years of Tory rule until recently- I don’t think that’s worked out very well for cracking down on antisocial behaviour at all. It was Labour introduced ASBOs back in the day etc, so in my experience they tend to be more about tackling stuff whereas the Tory mindset sees this kind of thing as beneath them and too local to bother with so they don’t put it on the national agenda.

Are you a bit intellectually challenged? What sort of simpleton finds a banging exhaust pipe funny? At our last house, somebody's dickhead son went through a phase of driving up and down the road with his explosive exhaust pipe til nearly 12 on a week night and all through the night at weekends! Exploding his way around the area and this went on for a few months until very early one Saturday morning I heard him fucking around up the road so I went outside to.waot fur him to pass so I could get his reg no, but he was sat opposite some that's opposite just revving and banging his exhaust pipe, I heard some serious shouting so I guess someone came out the flats and showed him the error of his ways and we never heard that particular car again. You wouldn't be laughing if you had to get up for work absolutely knackered on frequent occasion, you wouldn't be laughing if you had to be on the phone to the police at silly o clock at night when you should be asleep, you wouldn't be laughing of you had to move house because you are sick to death of noise at night and noise when you are trying to chill in your garden in the summer. The bangs are like the brainless fireworks that people use! Massive explosions that frighten people and pets! It's funny for you as the retard doing it, it's not funny for the people and animals you make suffer.