To be a little surprised how many essential trips

[Hingeandbracket]

Were being made yesterday in cars and on motorcycles with extremely loud exhausts blasting around at full tilt. Perhaps it was the absence of other traffic, but it does seem as if some bellends are using it as an excuse to roar around in their fucking noisy bellend-mobiles

@Hingeandbracket

Ffs. I assume it’s road registered if you take it out every few weeks.

If so we are presumably talking a caterham, ginneta or some similar road/track car not some sort of super hyper machine.

While most of what you say has an element of truth to it, there is no reason that car needs a run regularly. Let’s face it it likely won’t race all year anyway so best bet would be drain everything and store or just leave it be.(with the exception of a quick fire up and roll back and forwards to check bits haven’t locked up) like everyone else I know who races cars, does rally’s, races motorbikes or race powerboats. Most sit idle right through the winter, and most will be sat idle all year this year.

Jeez, Ferrari’s etc can sit in storage or on a forecourt for months without ever moving. Many brand new cars from the factory will sit stored somewhere for months before ever turning a wheel.

'We' have not established it didn't. I've detailed why it needed running and why it was an essential journey. Several times. I presume you've read my 12-point list of reasons? Your dad having an old Morgan doesn't negate my car's need to be run. It's a very different animal. Although as it happens, I love Morgans and would very much one day like a roadster.

I mention the cost of my car because it was one of my reasons for not letting my car go to wrack and ruin by not being driven. See my earlier analogy with a house purchase. You protect your house, right? Now the cost of my car was vast to me, that doesn't mean it was vast to anyone else. You're making an awful lot of assumptions based on very little information. And your dad's Morgan.

@Rebootingagain

I think you meant to @ Winterwoollies not @ Hingeandbracket 😂

winterwoollies

Okay dear.

Aren't here some other threads you can go post on with your 'opposite side of the argument'?

Op: "Why do people let their dogs crap everywhere?"
WW: "well I let.my ver expensive pedigree shit everwere cuz it has to be walked"

Op: "why do landlords not fix things quick?"
Ww: "well I'm a landlord and my ver asspemsive flat gets fixed when I say and sod the tenants"

Op: "I wish my neighbours wouldn't have so many parties"
We: "well is a neighbours n i az many parties cuz screw it why I shouldn't I"

Op: "why do people have to have non essential trips?"
Ww: "well I az non essenshul trips cuz my rusty car miyt fall apieces if it's stored for a wick or too"

I know what the OP means. The boy racers with their bean tin exhausts all come out on pretty much any light, sunny evening, around here, and lockdown doesn't seem to be applying to them. Some of the driving is bloody terrifying.

And the worst that can happen to most cars for not being driven is the battery going flat. Happened to us, last week. DH replaced the 9 year old battery and bought a charger so, hopefully, problem solved.

We are getting the local bellends racing around in the middle of the night. I would assume they are older teenagers which begs the question why their parents are letting them out to cause havoc.

@Midsommar Well, I really like the sounds of roaring engines. I love Le Mans and Goodwood and the Indi500 and Pikes Peak etc. All these things are enjoyable to me. I understand not everyone likes that noise, which is why I just drive my car around on the roads and don't sit around outside people's houses, revving. And normally it is car transported direct to competitions. However, surely people can cope with the fleeting sound of a passing engine?

@MonkeyToesOfDoom I'm not totally sure what you're driving at with your last 'Flowers of Algernon'-esque post. I don't go about posting opposite viewpoints for fun, it's just I fell on the opposite argument on this thread so I shared it. Sadly for you, my viewpoint is as valid as yours. Maybe more so, because I don't resort to being unkind to people. You seem quite mean and inflexible.

@PickAChew that may be true for a lot of cars, but my car serves a purpose beyond getting me from A to B so I look after it closely. And that involves running it regularly.

I get that people hate noisy cars, hate me for driving a noisy car, think I'm immoral for enjoying and actively participating in the racing of performance cars etc, but the levels of spite that radiate out of people's posts is astounding.

It wasn't bothering me earlier but it's made me feel a bit sad and horrible now so I shall bow out.

Bellends love empty roads. Unfortunately.

Sooner the lockdown is over and we can all clog up the roads again - sooner they will be in the queue just like the rest of us.

I don't know because I'm at work but the DH was on the road today (also for work) and he said there's loads of people out and about.

Apparently there are still pile ups on the M1! Says it all.

I’m amazed when I hear the traffic news, accidents and traffic jams......how on earth is that happening so much when the country is on lockdown!

We get this all the time where I live,not just during the lockdown.

I've noticed the same. Windows down with loud music. And speeding more than usual. I guess is tempting as roads are so empty and maybe it is a very irresponsible way of unwinding...

At my local Morrison’s... loads of teenage bellends roaring their engines and shouting into their mobiles. Most of these cars are shit boxes with any number of exhausts... it was like a ‘tiny penis rally!’

Racing noisy cars is fine. But please not down high streets of towns.

I haven't been out much at all so no idea what the roads are like in general but every sunny weekend day I can hear huge amounts of motorbikes on the main road near me.

Errol DFOD!

I've found people will have an excuse because they know what they are doing is not essential. Mental health has been thrown around by 80% of the school mums WhatsApp group as their sole reason in order to justify their choices. Many of them are clueless about mental health problems

@Winterwoollies. I too love cars, fast cars especially and I love F1 and racing in general. I love taking my car on track days ( it's not a track car specifically) and I would LOVE to give it a good blast too. Instead I have to be satisfied with a weekly tootle to our local supermarket by which time its driven so little it doesn't even get up to temp and won't go out of 3rd gear. My car is also a bit special (to me) and it's making me sad 😭. I feel your pain.

I'm not a curtain twitcher. For the most part I couldn't care less what people do. I do care about those that choose to drive at 60+ in a 30, past my house. If a child or animal ran out, or someone less mobile crossing, there would be absolute carnage. I have CCTV on my driveway that captures a small part of the road, (wasn't always like that but time, weather and possibly the roofer has tilted it) A bike went past so fast earlier that you couldn't even make out it was a bike. If he'd have hit oil, a bump etc. he would likely have been killed and his bike could have killed or injured someone on pavement, driveway or possibly in their house if it hit front windows. These are the things that the police do need to be concerned about as it's immediately risking life. I read an article earlier about someone arrested and sentenced to 4 months in prison for 'aggressively coughing' at a police officer, but apparently dangerous driving is fine.

I have the neighbours from hell who are under investigation with environmental health. Everything has ceased because of the virus and they are carrying on as if nothing has happened. There are at least seven of them in the property every night and during the day there are also kids in there that do not belong to them. During the day they are in and out all day long, shouting and screaming and laughing and joking. In fact it is almost as if they are using this as an excuse to be louder than ever. It is fucking intolerable and I can't do anything. I have been told not to approach them as it could have a bearing on the eviction court case. Oh yeah I also have a cyclist who has taken the exhaust off of his bike and is using the road 24/7 to drive up and down at high speed. I've taken to wearing ear plugs to watch my TV with the subtitles on and earplugs in all day as I'm working from home. These people are really selfish, and at a time like this we should be looking out for one another.

What's Errol done?

Spot on ... loads of idiots round here bikes vans and cars... way too much traffic 50% not essential... couple of my neighbours adding to it too

I noticed more traffic on Sunday. Also people with deliberately noisy cars racing around are an antisocial blot on people's lives. They should go to a race track if they want to race around. I bet half of them wouldn't like it on their doorstep, especially when they are sleeping at midday no doubt.

You obviously live in a different part of the country to me! The roads have never been so empty and generally people are driving sensibly.

My journey to work (essential, I am a key worker) took between 20 - 60 minutes on a bad day pre-lockdown. It now takes 8-10. It is great.