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To be sick to death of noisy cars

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Dappy777 · 03/12/2025 22:15

WHY don't the police do anything about this? I'm f-ing sick of it😡. Every year the problem gets worse. I'm sitting here unable to concentrate because some idiot is racing around in a souped up car.

I don't know what they do, but their cars screech when they accelerate and then make a banging/exploding sound when they slow down – like someone has let off fireworks. They wake me up at night, and they disturb me when I'm trying to read or watch TV. It's really affecting my life. No one expects the police to catch every single one, but if they'd just fine a few, word would get around. These horrible, ignorant, vile, selfish little bas*ards are basically bullies. They know they upset people, and like all bullies their behaviour will just escalate until someone stops them.

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JohnofWessex · 04/12/2025 19:48

Personally I would put a Vet in every traffic police car to carry out a procedure more commonly associated with Tom Cats on the spot

hattie43 · 04/12/2025 19:46

KookyPinkHare · 04/12/2025 19:03

High end cars also make noise. There are well off, middle class morons as well!

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You’d have to go really high end to get a noisy high class car , Aston , Ferrari etc . Nobody has been plagued by noise from these cars because they aren’t ragged around the roads at 2am whereas Harley Joe’s 57 plate fiesta is .

CalzoneOnLegs · 04/12/2025 19:45

beeautifullif3 · 03/12/2025 23:08

Gosh im lucky to have good neighbours lol my car gets attention wherever I go 🤣 43 , female , 5 kids , stage 2 map and just had a new exhaust and screamer pipe fitted 🤣🤣

What car is it ?

hattie43 · 04/12/2025 19:44

We are also plagued with this . I think any noise modifications should be made illegal .

Tryingatleast · 04/12/2025 19:32

Hate the sound of them but hate electric cars too, they’ve gone too far the other way, you can’t hear them now, so dangerous when walking a dog on the road/ turning a corner

KookyPinkHare · 04/12/2025 19:03

High end cars also make noise. There are well off, middle class morons as well!

anon666 · 04/12/2025 18:55

Ugh. Sainsbury's car park yesterday. Some complete bell-end came vrooming in too fast, too loud.

Everyone jumped amd looked round as to be honest he might have run someone over at that speed.

He then parked in a disabled space, him and a woman got out. Both looked completely off their faces as they wobbled and staggered out of the car. I thought about the fact that in "the old days" police would maybe have picked these people up. But I didn't even bother to call.

DownyEmerald · 04/12/2025 18:54

Next door's son has a souped up something that is really noisy - and regularly wakes us when he leaves at 5.45 am to go the gym.

I'm interested in why people like it - how would they feel if they had a button they could press so it just made that noise inside the car? If it's the noise they enjoy that should work. But if there is an element of attention seeking then obviously it wouldn't.

Motorbikes - I've heard the excuse that a loud bike is a safe bike but it seems unfair that they can impose their noise on so many people as they pootle about - it's really unpleasant, and affects people's health.

FlyMeSomewhere · 04/12/2025 18:41

Dappy777 · 03/12/2025 22:15

WHY don't the police do anything about this? I'm f-ing sick of it😡. Every year the problem gets worse. I'm sitting here unable to concentrate because some idiot is racing around in a souped up car.

I don't know what they do, but their cars screech when they accelerate and then make a banging/exploding sound when they slow down – like someone has let off fireworks. They wake me up at night, and they disturb me when I'm trying to read or watch TV. It's really affecting my life. No one expects the police to catch every single one, but if they'd just fine a few, word would get around. These horrible, ignorant, vile, selfish little bas*ards are basically bullies. They know they upset people, and like all bullies their behaviour will just escalate until someone stops them.

I can't agree with you enough OP! We need acoustic cameras everywhere to stamp it out. One of the reasons I moved house last year was because we lived next to a main road and it became intolerable. All the main roads in the town I live in now always seem to have numerous houses up for sale on them because these childish twats have made it difficult to live near main roads! It needs stamping out before people living on main roads end up when the houses they can't even sell. Not to mention the fact that when these morons drive past pedestrians and their exhaust pipes explode, it's detrimental to people's hearing which should be a crime!

FlyMeSomewhere · 04/12/2025 18:33

xanthomelana · 04/12/2025 11:40

Came here to say this. There’s nothing worse than being creeped up on by an electric car. At least cars with loud exhausts give you a warning.

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They also give you hearing damage when the filthy infant inside bangs it driving past you!

FlyMeSomewhere · 04/12/2025 18:27

beeautifullif3 · 03/12/2025 23:08

Gosh im lucky to have good neighbours lol my car gets attention wherever I go 🤣 43 , female , 5 kids , stage 2 map and just had a new exhaust and screamer pipe fitted 🤣🤣

What a shit parenting example! Your teaching your kids to be racers as soon as they are old enough. I worked on a steelworks and one in ten young apprentices who have their initial health screening were found to already have excessive hearing loss because they drive around in cars that scream and bang! And you've exposed all your kids to your retarded chav car mods! What kind of a mother exposes her kids to that level of noise!

In the town where I live, the main roads are full of houses for sale because of selfish morons like you! At what age are you going to grow up and stop humiliating your kids? You've already damaged their hearing by this point.

Chinsupmeloves · 04/12/2025 18:25

Absolutely agree, I hate them too. They know they're souped up way above the legal limit but like all arseholes like this think they're above the law. Don't they realise people just think they're tossers? 🤔 Sefish, ignorant and immature.

ZoggyStirdust · 04/12/2025 18:08

RedPony1 · 04/12/2025 08:51

As a female petrol head in my 40's, my weekend car is louder than average - it's set up for track days which is what i mostly do with it. Anyone that purposely maps in "pops and bangs" are missing a braincell or two!!

However, saying that, i LOVE hearing the sound of loud cars (minus the crap pops and bangs) and will always stop what I'm doing to listen 😀

Yep a nice exhaust attached to a decent engine is lovely. I have a couple of cars that are a bit louder than average but not mapped or “souped up” in any way, just stock.

i tend to find a decent flat 6, or v8, sounds far better than any artificial pops and bangs

i am always careful in the morning or at night though. No need to be antisocial…

Utterknowitall · 04/12/2025 17:58

Do you live in Slough?

cinquanta · 04/12/2025 17:57

beeautifullif3 · 03/12/2025 23:08

Gosh im lucky to have good neighbours lol my car gets attention wherever I go 🤣 43 , female , 5 kids , stage 2 map and just had a new exhaust and screamer pipe fitted 🤣🤣

Both our cars have been remapped, along with other modifications. They make no more noise than a standard car.

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Dappy777 · 04/12/2025 17:40

Poppy123xyz · 04/12/2025 13:11

I hate them too. My first thought is what a small dick he must have (although post above says its women too) second thought is what a loser to think anyone gives a fuck about their car, must have nothing else to be proud of.

Psychologically, what the f-k is going on with these morons? Come on, I know there are psychology graduates on MN.

There is a certain type of person who is very dangerous and who always causes trouble. I mean people who are thick and boring but who also have massive egos and expect admiration and attention. Their thoughts probably run something like this "I'm great and I should be the centre of attention. I ought to be a rich YouTube star or a famous footballer or something. But instead I'm poor, have a low-status job, and seem to bore people when I speak. I struggle to string a sentence together, let alone say anything witty or interesting, so how can I get people to look at me? Guess I'll have to do what a five year-old does – make a loud noise."

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Dappy777 · 04/12/2025 17:26

CottageLoaf · 04/12/2025 07:35

I feel your pain. Both male neighbours on either side - on a terraced street - have done this to their cars. They both leave for work very early, making our whole house rattle. I honestly can't see what the point is.

There really ought to be a massive crackdown on anti-social behaviour. We don't take it anywhere near seriously enough in this country. It ruins lives. On almost every estate in the UK there are people who live in fear of loud, aggressive, intimidating neighbours. Controlling and restraining such people ought to be a police priority.

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Dappy777 · 04/12/2025 17:22

MrsSkylerWhite · 04/12/2025 12:57

Why do they do it? Just sounds like the cars about to blow up 🤷‍♀️

It baffles me. If you work hard and save your money and buy your dream car, good luck to you. Enjoy. But you have no right to upset others. There is just no need to modify your exhaust so it screeches and bangs like a firework display.

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Mokel · 04/12/2025 15:08

Saw one of these cars with a fat exhaust. They had a fully rusty (done on purpose) bonnet lid. It looks shit

RedPony1 · 04/12/2025 13:15

SeaAndStars · 04/12/2025 09:55

I don't know how they get away with it because your car fails its MOT if the exhaust is noisy.

Where I live the young farmers all have these souped up cars with roll bars and lights like Christmas trees. When they get married and have kids the car rots in the yard alongside all the old farm machinery.

You know, the car scene is absolutely FULL of families....

Poppy123xyz · 04/12/2025 13:11

I hate them too. My first thought is what a small dick he must have (although post above says its women too) second thought is what a loser to think anyone gives a fuck about their car, must have nothing else to be proud of.

Somersetbaker · 04/12/2025 12:59

MrsSkylerWhite · 04/12/2025 12:57

Why do they do it? Just sounds like the cars about to blow up 🤷‍♀️

Because they've got very small cocks and think people will be impressed by a Corsa making fart noises.

MrsSkylerWhite · 04/12/2025 12:57

Why do they do it? Just sounds like the cars about to blow up 🤷‍♀️

Somersetbaker · 04/12/2025 12:56

Twistedfirestarters · 04/12/2025 08:10

It's not 'legal' in the sense that it's an MOT fail.

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And most of the time modifications to the exhaust system and suspension, remapping etc haven't been reported to the insurance company, so the drivers insurance would be void. About time the police started seizing and sending them to the crusher.

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