To want tougher punishments for noisy cars

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https://www.gov.uk/guidance/anti-social-behaviour-asb-case-review-also-known-as-the-community-trigger

Just keep on complaining then pull the trigger

Ugh. We have one on our street, drives a souped up Mercedes. We can hear him coming from miles away. We have phoned the police but nothing gets done. My teen gets woken by him roaring into the street every night at about 1 am. I have seen him pull out of our street into the main road and he goes so fast that his car fishtails. Maniac.

I live in a small block of flats with a car park, and there are two idiot tenants with souped up exhausts. The noise they make is horrific and so disturbing, I’m regularly woken up at night by their coming and going and like a PP, that’s with earplugs in!

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Can we have tougher punishments for drivers and cyclists who kill?

So often it’s “£200 fine and disqualification for killer driver”, who doesn’t have a licence. So no punishment at all.

We need suspended sentence for every disqualification, and fines of thousands for drink drivers, not merely hundreds.

And we need hanging for prime ministers who lie to the electorate. Boris Johnson, I’m looking at you. I’m sure there’s an archaic law saying that a prime minister who lies to His or Her Majesty has their head chopped off for treason.

I agree and we have loads of these on our estate and in the local shop car park - bikes and cars and then they race off over a bridge. These aren't bikes making sure cars know they are there. They are just revving and backfiring for fun.

There are laws about dBs of sound and exhausts but the trouble is there are never any police around to hear them.

It is impossible to have windows open and out case it isn't just a night. Any hot weekend or bank Holiday it can be all day long.

I did report one car that was going to and fro and the police must have caught up with him because I haven't seen him since but I also suspect he was dealing.

Yes. Our road is horrendous and they beep all the time for no reason

This . I don’t understand why the want of the few trumps the majority needing a quiet peaceful life .

All unnecessary noise should be illegal and have the harshest punishments. People should be entitled to live in peace and quiet.

We get a lot of them speeding around at night, cars and bikes with modified exhausts sounding like guns are going off. I have a real issue with loud noises and I absolutely hate it, especially when I'm in bed trying to sleep. I try to tolerate it and think they are just young and ignorant, but recently it's ramped up to new levels and I've found myself secretly hoping they crash and seriously injure themselves. I really hate thinking evil thoughts like that but they are driving me to distraction

And those that play violins/recorders during summer months when windows are open.

I think it is an advisory right now.
I had a loud (but pretty) aftermarket exhaust on one of my old motorbikes, but I had a baffle in it to reduce the noise to normal levels.

Excessive noise, absolutely.

Complete silent cars or bike would be insanely dangerous.

We also need very heavy fines for idling idiots, who leave the engine running for ever, with a special premium tax when it's within distance of a school. Lazy parents who turn up 30mn early to have a space to save them from walking 50 meters and need they engine on because they are too lazy to open a window in the summer, or put a jumper in the winter

They are not the only one, but are still so unpleasant.

I think this is another effect of how much road policing has gone down the pan in the years that I have been driving. Back in the dark ages when I learned to drive there were lots of real live trained traffic cops who could exercise discretion and who had the experience to spot subtler signs of sub standard driving. These days if it can't be prosecuted via a camera it doesn't seem to count. The only time in my life I have ever been pulled over for speeding I got a stern talking to but was then sent on my way but it did actually modify my behaviour, both immediately and in the long term. These days I would have just got a bill in the post two weeks later.
Lane discipline is practically non existent now and I regularly see things like cars towing trailers in the outside lane and ridiculously overloaded or modified vehicles - all things that traffic police would spot and hopefully act on. But they are are rarity these days, where I live anyway, it's cameras and civilian traffic officers who don't fulfil the same role. I guess it costs too much but I'd be happy to see more of my taxes spent on putting actual police officers back out on the roads. I think people break more rules these days because they know there's very little chance of being caught unless they're speeding past a camera.

The souped up exhausts have been around for ages and as a fad doesn't look like they're going away soon.

It's irritating but understandable when it's a 1.2l fiesta driven someone who's just got their licence. Enraging when it's a 3l Audi with tinted windows driven by someone old enough to know better.

I live off a main road and empathise with the OP.

Above a certain decibel should be an instant MOT failure.

Can I add kids that scream for no reason to that list.

Petition: Increase penalties for motor vehicles that exceed legal noise pollution levels

We ask the UK Government to introduce stricter penalties for excessive vehicle noise, including modified loud exhaust systems and unnecessary use of car horns during night hours. Excessive noise from vehicles is a growing problem in many communities across the UK.

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/767984

I assume it’s not Australia as I was in Hobart (Tasmania) recently staying in a lovely quiet hotel on the harbour. Sat night turned into some form of torture around midnight-1am as the local “hoons” (as my Aussie friend called them) started racing their modified cars around the harbour front for hours. 😡

There needs to be more stringent curbs on noise in general, from loud music, barking dogs, shouting, fireworks and noisy cars and motorbikes.

I have a noisier than average classic car. It’s completely standard - no mods, no farts or bangs, just a low throb. Like a Ferrari or Lamborghini.

You’ll have all electric cars soon enough and will be complaining about the number of people
hurt or injured when they don’t hear them coming.

(have had it and the neighbours for over 20 years and never had any complaints about it.)

As someone else has said, there are noise cameras. I reckon a fine proportionate to the number of people disturbed would not be inappropriate - which would generally be the full value of the vehicle, given how loud many of them are… What justification can there possibly be for something so antisocial?

I hope one day the UK operate the Australia/New Zealand system (can’t remember which one it is), where cars aren’t allowed to be modified beyond manufacture and can’t have after market exhausts etc. The modifications we have in the UK serve no purpose apart from making everyone other than the idiot driving miserable. My lovely neighbours moved yesterday because of a dickhead like this. Every night his modified car sounds like a gunshot and would terrify their little boy. They asked him to be more mindful and stop the excessive revving but got nothing but abuse, so they left. Such a shame as good neighbours are so hard to come by nowadays.

I feel your pain . We struggle with this aswell , it’s so jarring and inconsiderate

They're just thick twats - no other explanation needed.

Unfortunately dickheads seem to be growing exponentially as a group, at least I won't be too sad to go when it's my time to pop my clogs, they will prob have completely taken over by then 🙄