to think noisey double exhaust "boy racers" are rude and anti social

[Lauranda]

I say boy racer but the guy next door is in his 40s and bolding.

Why do they feel the need to modify their old crummy cars to make them as noisey as possible.

It annoys me that his car makes my flat and its windows rattle. Can hear when hes on his way back for a good 30 seconds before he arrives.

I hope you were playing some bangin' choonz as you drove along frankie.

I am surprised that boy racing is a problem in this country with the price of petrol - evidently 'the young' are not as poor as they would have us believe.

you can report them for excessive noise. This may also trigger an insurance check, and if they don't have any or haven't told their insurers about the mods (same thing) the car could be crushed. Oh dear, how sad, never mind.

Have you noticed policeman are getting younger? I think you are just getting older

special the price of petrol and insurance for young drivers is part of the reason that these underpowered hairdryers have all these gaudy additions bolted on to them. The capaxity for self delusion amongst tbese twats is astounding. In their minds they've transformed a rusty and knackered corsa into a powerful street racer. Ironically the shitty bodykits they stick on them knacker the aerodynamics and add weight so performance from these 1litre shopping trollies is even more weedy than before they started off.

I thought its against the law? that plus the exsessive drum n bass?

how the hell do they hear emergency vehicles?

and why don't police pull them over? it IS a noise nuisance.

What specifically is against the law?

Where have all the 'Kevin loves Mandy' style stickers gone?

the amount of exhausts on a car? the decibels?

Just had one of these racing down our quiet road with its 20 miles limit, thinking they were Stig on the race track on top gear. ffs.

Police don't have a decibel meter, MOT stations don't have a decibel meter. If you were wrevving a car repeatedly for hours on end you might get done for causing a public nuisance.

Squoosh, I think it was LBC!

My exhaust broke and fell off twice from my beloved old Citroen Xantia. The noise was horrible and it was so embarrassing to drive around before I got someone to repair it. Everyone turned around to look at the noisy twat.

I now have a huge urge to tell these noisy car owners (there is one or two on our street.. and a fecking beach buggy, as well) that I think their exhaust must be broken to make such godawful racket and that I could recommend a good repairs garage nearby

I think we need to publicise the well-known fact that men with loud exhausts have tiny penises. If more people sniggered knowingly at drivers of noisy cars the entire problem could be resolved very quickly.

YANBU

What intrigues me is, who are they trying to impress? Women? Other bokes? Other noisy exhaust enthusiasts?

I'd love to know

I had my silencer fall off on my way home after a weekend away... Garage removed it then ordered the new one to be delivered to my home town. Had to.drive 90miles down the m4 sounding like a plonker.

Now, thinking scientifically.... These loons want to make their car sound like it has a v8 engine rather than a 1.1 Citroen special. So they do all kinds of crap to it but, critically, the engine is the same. Changing fuel pumps and air intakes I.could understand. But the backbox? You're just wasting all that engine energy making more noise! (appreciate this probably.disappeared as heat before rather than to the wheels)

My favourites are the ones who fit dump valves to their turbos. Nope, you don't sound like a racing driver. You sound like the number 19 bus.

You might want to check your facts lastnightIwenttoManderley some turbo cars come with dump valves as standard

I think they just are trying to impress other noisy drivers. I just nod to myself and think, "what a twat"

I've just paid £170 to have my exhaust repaired to STOP it sounding like that.
We all had a lovely family day out yesterday sitting in the beer garden of a pub that overlooks the beach. Unfortunately, the bank holiday weekend always brings out the idiots wanting to show off their cars. We frequently had to stop our conversation mid sentence while one of these toss-pots roared past.

This is it DownstairsMixUp (hmmm I fancy a Baileys now). Most of us think 'what a twat'. Do they think that everyone thinks 'wow cool car'?

It's just another one of those things that make knickers for miles around come flying off. Same as man who walk with their arms held out a foot from their torsos at all times, street spitters, Olde English/Chinese tattoos... Just pure sexy.

I've got a noisy exhaust on my 44 year old Beetle. I don't race it anywhere but it is noisy. I'd rather be pushing my bug than driving a Fiesta.

Surely noise is vibration and vibration in machines is a) wasteful and b) damaging... That is what the engineers (yes, plural ) in my family bang on about. The quieter a machine is for it's size, the more power it should have available for it's actual job and the longer it should last.

FIL engineer can tell from listening to something if it's going to break down. He's a machine whisperer.

I think they do pip They still do that boy racer thing once a month at Southend don't they? And they all hang around Lakeside every so often being noisy, congratulating each other on having noisy cars. :S I think they must know it's only to impress fellow noisy car lovers, other than that, the rest of us just think they are annoying as hell!

Balding and 40 is irrelevant...its more of a religion than a demographic I've found

Had some in the Blackwall tunnel the other day, it was hilarious. They weren't being dangerous as such just revving their pathetically notthatbig motors.

I think there are worse folk out there. Many of them are quite clean living, non or little drinking, all about the cars, every last cent goes on them kind of people. Its a hobby, like knitting or macramé. But for "blokes". Bless.