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This woman is driving us insane with her revving engine every morning from 5.20 - 5.40 trying to warm her car up. My husband has been moaning about it for a couple of weeks now but as he's already up and getting ready for work he tries to block it out. However this morning it's woken me and the noise is horrendous and totally unnecessary. I'm really pissed off as I grabbed my dressing gown and went outside only to reach the gate as she pulled away
I need to catch her later but how would you handle this situation ? Because right now my thoughts are pretty dark

@MrsGideon I bloody missed her as I've been caught up in school run traffic
But I had another neighbour knock my door to ask if it was my husband revving his engine !! Told them no and that it was a different neighbour. I'm hoping to catch her this evening though before the other neighbour does as he's absolutely furious and yes it's pissed me off but the guy had steam coming out of his ears.

Oh well at least your irritating neighbour can’t claim that you are the only one who is bothered and therefore you are making a fuss. If Mr Steam-coming-out-of-his-ears also knocks on her door, she wont have a leg to stand on.

She is really being very inconsiderate.

I'm hoping to catch her this evening though before the other neighbour does as he's absolutely furious and yes it's pissed me off but the guy had steam coming out of his ears.

I’d let him speak to her

@CoraPirbright I'm not sure he's planning on speaking to her he mentioned something about tyres thing is I'm now thinking if I do speak to her and he does any damage to her car I may get the blame but he could also just be mouthing off so maybe my best bet is to see what 5.20 brings tomorrow morning?

My neighbours son used to do this and it was really annoying
However one morning the engine had had enough and just blew up
We almost applauded
Luckily he didn’t do it with the next car!
Does she not realise she’s pissing all the neighbours off and damaging her car?

Why is she revving the engine? That wont warm the car up any quicker. Is it purely for those reasons or is she deicing the car? Im also leave earlyish for work (just after 6am) and yes while i leave the car running to start thawing the windscreen if theres been a frost, im in the car and gone as soon as i can see out the windscreen, i wouldnt leave ot running for the fun of it. Most of is dont live in the middle of nowhere we all have neighbours, people need to start being a little more considerate especially early hours of the day when most of the street is in bed or at night time.

I leave at 5.40am my car is a 14yr old diesel and I leave straight away. If it's icy I always clear it before I start it as I am aware of how noisy it is. Also I am not a twat. Hope you resolve it op.

How long has she been revving the eff out of it for? Is it just since the start of the cold spell?

@RockYourSocksOff it's been the last few weeks but every morning Mon - Fri and it's not always frosty / icy this morning it was fairly mild and just rain water on the cars. She's either trying to warm the car up or de-mist the inside but going about it in completely the wrong way.

If it’s cold enough tonight go out and put a note on her car not to rev the bloody engine. Then poor water over the car to create a few layers of ice to help the sign stay in place. You wouldn’t want it to fly off.

I've got a very inconsiderate neighbour. I was advised to try and deescalate the situation or move. They just don't care.

Could it be possible that there's something wrong with her car starting?? So thats why she's revving it, so it will start up and not because she thinks it will help de-ice it quicker?
I'm only saying this because op said she was doing it on a morning when there was no ice on the cars. And the continuous revving really makes no sense! Surely she'd be driving herself mad with the noise never mind everyone else!

She’s being very selfish.

Leave a note on her windowscreen.

On A4 paper.

Agreed anonymous note. Done this it works. But make it so mushy in politeness to start then get bitchier as it goes on if it continues.

@Racecardriver where we are we are meant to get a fair bit of rain and we are under the current warning for winds tonight so if I go down the note route, A4 in a clear plastic wallet attached with gaffa tape

Don’t give her a can of de-Icer it ruins your windscreen for starters plus don’t be buying her stuff. Just tell her to quit waking the whole street up. My neighbour has a sporty car and comes home and sits revving his engine for 5 minutes. It’s always Evening but is seriously annoying...among other annoyances!

Will good cop - bad cop work if your other neighbour is also affected. You could act concerned that she has a problem with her car? Reccing it so much and so loudly in the morning can’t be good? Then the other neighbour can hit her with the noise thing?

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Wonder how she'll feel about this when her engine explodes? She's being a right idiot doing that to her car, it won't make it warm up faster, just makes it break quicker.

Just go and knock and ask her politely to stop

We have a neighbour who did that. I went out very grumpy and asked him to stop as he’d woken me up that money and very morning before. I was a bit scared as he’s quite a big man but I guess my early morning, grumpy, sleep deprived, resting bitch face is scarier as he’s not done it since!

Did she do it this morning?

@Morgan12 she did but but she's wasn't parked outside my house but around the corner so it wasn't as loud for us today but other neighbours got the brunt of it.