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AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

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to think that if your car has a loud engine your neighbours just have to put up with it?

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BayLeaves · 16/05/2017 12:39

First we got asked if my childminder can park somewhere else when she comes at 7am, as her car has a loud engine and was waking them up.

Now we don't have a childminder anymore but we have changed our own car which also has a loud engine and leaves at 7am. It's not 5 days a week - more like 3. I haven't had any comments yet but I bumped into the neighbour today and they seemed really grumpy. I am just waiting for another passive aggressive text to complain. know they haven't actually said anything yet so I can't complain but I'm just wondering if they do complain who is being unreasonable...?

I understand it's horrible being woken up by outside noise and I've had lots of times when I've been really angry with noises waking my son up when he was a baby. However, AIBU to think if you live in a suburban with houses fairly close together and lots of car owners, don't you just have to put up with it? People have to get to work and surely when you buy a car you don't base the purchase on how quiet it will be for the neighbours?

(I should also add we don't sit on the driveway for ages revving or having the engine ticking over, it's just a loud "brum" when the engine starts up and off we go!)

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TaliZorahVasNormandy · 17/05/2017 12:27

What happens when you live near other people. House next door has a motorbike which is noisy, but I wouldnt grump about it. Just what happens in housing estates.

eddielizzard · 17/05/2017 12:30

i think as long as you're considerate about it ie. not revving and leaving it running for ages it should be ok. is that the case or is your dh being a prick and revving away?

EverythingEverywhere1234 · 17/05/2017 12:30

That's having neighbours imo. They'd hate living near me and my DP, tractors coming in and out alllll hours of the day as we run an ag contracting business. Good job we only have one close neighbour and they used to be a contractor too 😂

strikhedonia · 17/05/2017 12:32

I dream of persuading the council to install full on speed bumps down the road

that might not help anyway, when low cars get caught on them, it makes an awful racket. It's vaguely satisfying when you know the driver just damaged his car, but you are still awake.

Goldenhandshake · 17/05/2017 13:07

Our neighbour has a big fuck off motorbike that is bone shakingly loud, and leaves at around 6am every day, it is parked right near the building entrance door so is infinitely worse than any car (all of which are parked at the back of the building away from the bedroom windows). I find him unreasonable for parking it there. You however, are parking on your own drive, YANBU.

tinyterrors · 17/05/2017 18:10

Just getting in the car, starting the engine and driving off isn't unreasonable.

The stupid boy racer that had a car with modified exhaust that used to sit revving his engine under my bedroom window for 30 minutes at 11pm (or later) while waiting for his gf that lived opposite used to piss me off every time he woke new born ds. The gf didn't like it when I complained to her mum about the boyfriend's car waking us up at all hours.

The difference is that he didn't need to sit revving the engine for half an hour whereas your dh needs to go to work. 7am isn't even that early for a weekday.

BertrandRussell · 17/05/2017 18:13

Yeah, nothing more comfortable for a commute than a sports car. Known for comfort on long drives are sports cars.

DailyMailReadersAreThick · 17/05/2017 18:15

It's unreasonable if you start it up and sit with it running and/or rev it.

If you start it up and drive off then YANBU.

SnickersWasAHorse · 17/05/2017 18:16

Getting in the car, starting and driving off. Fine.

Getting in the car and having the engine running for twenty minutes for no good reason. Not fine.

Starting the car and having ear splitting drum and bass. Not fine.

BlahBlahBlahEtc · 17/05/2017 18:25

7 am is a pretty standard time really. I wouldn't kick off about it personally. I had a next door neighbour with a Subaru Impreza for years though (coming and going all hours) but you know.. it just pulls up or out and it's done with. I did grow up in the scummy part of Camden town though, maybe that's why

Goldfishjane · 17/05/2017 18:28

Argh
I think there should be legislation about a lot of noise things and this is one of them

Are a lot of the really noisy cars modified?

SoupDragon · 17/05/2017 18:36

I dream of persuading the council to install full on speed bumps down the road

that might not help anyway, when low cars get caught on them, it makes an awful racket. It's vaguely satisfying when you know the driver just damaged his car, but you are still awake.

Ah, but all the friends with equally low slung noisy cars won't come visit :)

BlurryFace · 17/05/2017 19:21

The estate (as in council, not as in naice) motorbike park is literally right outside our front gate, as is a large number of the car parking spaces. And across the way is a house where the teenagers constantly play Linkin fucking Park at all hours while the mum walks the dog round the estate bellowing at it rather than put the poor fucker on a lead.

Your neighbour doesn't know she's born.

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