To think people who drive

[LetSophieGo]

those tragic cars with a big fat gaping A-hole exhaust, sound like an amplified hairdryer?

You can't sit with a window open anymore, and it seems to have become more popular since covid.

To be honest, it qualifies as extreme noise pollution to my mind, and whilst it is supposed to be 'anti-social', bugger all gets done about it.

Just a simple walk to the supermarket can make you want to wear ear plugs, it's so violent and aggressive I have no idea what the fuck.

Who are these arses?

@LongDistanceClaret

Always men, nearly always young. Definitely with a level of inferiority complex which they are making up for with their loud exhaust.

Nope.

Super noisy exhausts coupled with thumping bass at all hours here, punctuated by next door blasting music (accompanied by tap dancing in concrete clogs) and bikes that drown out everything. It's a rare occurrence that I actually hear half a programme

An A-hole exhaust? 😂

@LongDistanceClaret

Always men, nearly always young. Definitely with a level of inferiority complex which they are making up for with their loud exhaust.

That seems to be the case in these parts. They all meet up somewhere (generally Maccys) to compare stupid exhaust noises.

I am reassured that my 18 and 21 year old DSs are as and as me about it.

Yep they're round here too, breeding like flies. Tossers. All male, and useless looking.

I was treated to one of these farting its way down the road earlier today. Not for long, though, because needless to say it was way over the speed limit. I had thought they were illegal precisely because of the noise pollution factor.

Not that that means very much, of course.

@ClafoutisSurprise

I was treated to one of these farting its way down the road earlier today. Not for long, though, because needless to say it was way over the speed limit. I had thought they were illegal precisely because of the noise pollution factor.

Not that that means very much, of course.

Yes farting that's exactly it. Loud farting up and down the street. What a treat. Extra points for parking up and leaving the engine running for ages for no reason.

Have a farting car if you want I suppose but why you would want to have a car that sounds as if it's about to pack up beats me.

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@DicklessWonder waves!! My 16 year old is modifying his mx5, I drive a supercharged lotus, hopefully going to track it this year.. and I'm 46!

And yes I drive it on normal roads and yes it whizzes like a dream and makes a noise louder than an average Ford Fiesta but not stupidly loud.

But I will add I couldn't care less if my car was invisible and silent, I just love driving it.

I'm with you OP. I hate loud noise in general, but when it's sudden (like with a driving car) it seems to come out of nowhere and really throws me.

I'm in South London and its always small old cars. A knackered corsa is the most likely source of unnecessary exhaust sounds. There are plenty of powerful, expensive cars round my way but they don't seem to make a noise.

@DicklessWonder

I drive a jap import car and haven’t modded anything. It has a loud exhaust and very very powerful engine. I use a baffle when not on the track but it’s still louder than the average car.

I’m a woman in my mid-40s who likes to drive. And yes, I take it on the track. I don’t drink or smoke or eat meat. I don’t have pets. This is my fun.

I don’t much appreciate other people’s choices, like smelly log burners, motorbikes, cats that shit in my garden, the waft of BBQd animal carcasses across my washing line, sex ponds or trampolines.

So you do you and I’ll do me.

I am with you! Among a bit of a fleet, I have an American muscle car. It is my pride and joy. I track it and it is teeth rattlingly loud. It gives me so much happiness. It’s absolutely impossible to drive, a total lurching beast but it makes everyone smile and wave.

I’m an early 30s woman and a total petrolhead. I love loud. (And fast).

Yep. Woman + machine in perfect harmony. 😍

I’m about to buy a track car for my 15 year old (mine is far too powerful for her (and precious to me).

I’m channelling the late, great Sabine Schmitz every time I get in there. I bet she didn’t get all this whinging.

Wait till all the super powerful Teslas start taking out the grannies with their oh so silent (dangerous) electric engines.

I’m also close to ordering a GR Yaris. Have you seen it? 😈

A proper supercar is a thing of beauty and I'll stop and watch it go by with a smile because they're not that common and usually driven sensibly on the residential roads because the people who own them respect their car for starters, there's a couple fairly regularly around here in summer as we're close to big open roads.

It's the aggressive driving, loud music and farting, popping and that sshooo sound every ten seconds that are the problem round here.
Floor the accelerator to the speed bump on a residential estate, slam the brakes on, crawl over the bump, floor it again and the slam on at the junction, accompanied by lots of popping, banging, loud bass and utter, utter coolness.
I mean how would anyone know they're so unbelievably cool if they didn't do that?
Tossers.

The neighbour round the corner had an exhaust like this, and he'd leave for work around 5:30am every morning. Would wake me up without fail every weekday and then I'd be kept awake by his howling husky. I clapped my hands with glee when someone posted a picture of his car on a local parking like a twat page all smashed up as his gf had crashed it.

I'm sure it's illegal to have an exhaust over a certain number of decibels as well, but don't think this is enforced.

Bloody awful. Neigbours son had one and he went to work at 5am, woke the entire street.

yes they are awful , esp when you are waiting at the bus stop and they go past nearly giving you a mini heart attack , its the usual idiots that drive them though .

In residential areas it's just antisocial. Why do they think everyone wants to listen to that racket?

@DicklessWonder I just visited the car boards to see where my fellow petrol head women have been all this time.. it appears not on there.

@Sparklingbrook

In residential areas it's just antisocial. Why do they think everyone wants to listen to that racket?

Absolutely top of my car buying list. Fuck all to do with appreciating mechanical engineering or needing to get to work. Just about possibly the neighbours off.

Assume it’s the same process for people who get cats or musical instruments.

[quote sodoffmenopause]@DicklessWonder I just visited the car boards to see where my fellow petrol head women have been all this time.. it appears not on there. [/quote]
There’s a CAR BOARD?!

Your appreciation of mechanical engineering and getting to work has to be done with a loud farting car that pisses your neighbours off Interesting.
Not comparable to cats or musical instruments in any way.

We have a few Vauxhall corsas with those shite exhausts here!! Up and down all bloody night! I mean it's embarrassing the engines aren't even 1L
😂😂

@Sparklingbrook

Your appreciation of mechanical engineering and getting to work has to be done with a loud farting car that pisses your neighbours off Interesting. Not comparable to cats or musical instruments in any way.

My car doesn’t fart. It throbs.

And as I said the car is not modified and I use a baffle to reduce exhaust noise when not track racing. Not sure what more I can do. 🤷🏻‍♀️

A cat let out to shit all over its non-cat owning neighbours’ properties is pretty anti-social, no?

@sodoffmenopause I love a good car well can I have lots of lovely VW's but those teens in corsas can fuck right off!