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 cannot stand noisy engines. We live on a small road and regularly hear pimped up cars zooming past at all hours of the night.

There is a guy who lives five houses down who revs his engine at least twice a day. I can tell when he is coming and going. It is so annoying and pathetic as he looks at least 30.

As another poster said, just who are they trying to impress?

I wish they were banned from the road!

I'm quite glad to read about people's exhausts falling off - mine did a couple of weeks back. It was meant to hold on another month till I get it MOTed and serviced.

Thing is I quite like some well/subtly modified cars and i can understand modifying cars to improve performance. The first person I mentored is massively into car modification and does a great job of subtly altering the appearance od tbe cars whilst the real improvements are under the bonnet.

I quite like the idea of buying a polo or micra, keeping the exterior pure granny, tartan rug, narional trust stickers etc then dumping a 2 litre engine in it. Would be quite fun when a corsa weighed down with halfords tat and a fart cannon exhaust pulls up at the lights and wonders why the dork in the carddriving a granny mobile has managed to leave his heavily adornrd pride and joy standing.

This drives me mad.

My nextdoor-but-one-neighbour has done something to his car. I'm really impressed when he's leaving for work at 5am and he shares the racket with the rest of us. Not!

I had some special noisy 'pipes' for my Harley (which were illegal) but made the most fantastic throbbing noise. Once nearly gave some folk a heart attack when i started it at Tebay services, as it had a lovely 'crack' sound to it when i pressed the started.

I had some quieter pipes though too, and didn't use the noisy ones in the mornings. I share your pain at that. The really noisy ones are illegal, but bikers change them for 'standard' pipes for their MOT tests and then put the other ones on again afterwards.

I did look and sound cool though when drawing up next to a white van full of blokes....or a bloke on a smaller bike. Sold it though as I see too many bike accidents at work.

I know of (friend of a friend) a bloke with a mini cooper which has a flame thrower thing on his exhaust, so if he revs it up fire comes out of it, or something! Its quite funny. He's about 19 and still lives at home with his mam.

I had the back window of my car completely shattered a few years ago from the vibrations when one of these idiots drove past. I have no idea why guys think they look cool driving an ordinary car that sounds like a plane taking off. They just look daft.

I had the back window of my car completely shattered a few years ago from the vibrations when one of these idiots drove past.

I dread to think what it did to your ears!

Vodka I think I must have known you in a past life .

Putting the 'driving like a twat' element to one side as there's as many idiots driving estate cars, old people having car park prangs. Let's face it, that's never acceptable
These people love their cars, they spend money modifying and improving it for their taste. Generally it's improving the best car they can buy, run and insure, so you may not consider it the best car but for them it is. Yes I've been woken up by my neighbour at 4am with his exhaust, and it is annoying. But so is my other neighbour whose kids are screaming in the garden at 6am.

Live and let live, it's an entire culture almost tribal.
I love my bhp adding burbling (but not noisey!) exhaust

Just because other people are rude and inconsiderate or drive badly does not make it okay Damn. It's an unnecessary moderation that drives other people mad and can also cause damage to other cars.

I don't get why people want their cars to go 50000mph, unless they reguarlarly take the car to track days, where on earth can you go ridiculous speeds in this country unless your just happy to break the law?! I know someone that spent a fortune on the engine making the car super fast and they haven't even been able to drive it that fast. :S Though I get one of DPs friends doing it as he takes his car to track days.

Mines for track days, it's also good fun even driving it safely within speed limits (which given I have ds in the car I do).

I did say driving like a twat is never acceptable regardless of what you drive.
I'm not sure how a loud exhaust can damage another car? But I do appreciate the noise is irritating as a neighbour. But so are lots of things neighbours do. It's part of living in close proximity with people.

To go on a track you need to pass strict decibel meters for your exhaust. It's surprisingly low at most tracks

My neighbours are all fantastic and considerate but not the ones with the bloody evo. They leave it running a good five minutes on the drive before they go to work (before 7am!) and you can hear it about 10 miles down the road before they even get here! Generally they are nice people though and not twats like some of the people we get revving and going super fast down our sea front. I like my old banger cars, get bored of new cars, they have no character imo!

It's motorcyclists round here. There is no particular that without a silencer who does laps, early on Sunday mornings. You can hear him thw whole way round. For hours. One of these days images going to go out and stand by the side of the road and flash my tits as he rides past. Hopefully he'll be so horrified he ends up in the nice water filled ditch by the side of the road!

We also have the HELL that is Wednesday nights. There is a weekly motorcycle meet up whose members drive up and down our particular long stretch of road from four pm until ten. We have to sit indoors with the windows closed as the noise is overwhelming.
There are a large number of idiots with small penises round here.

Maybe these people take our filthy looks to be the other kind of "filthy"?

Even if you, for some reason, have to drive a louder car or bike, at least do not leave it running for ages outside people's houses or needlessly rev the thing. It's that "brum brum bruuuuum" pointless revving that really gets on my tits. I think flashing would be a good idea, but motorcycle accidents are just too horrific to risk it.