Thunderous Farting Exhausts!

[Butterismylife]

WTF is this? Seems to have exploded since the pandemic, at least in my experience. I live and work between Cheshire and Shropshire and it’s possibly worse in the south of the county. That said I’ve heard it in Greater Manchester when visiting family.

I’m talking about revving, popping and farting cars. The larger ones are worse, the floor shakes when they go past and the noise is ear splitting. I guess it’s some sort of trend, but there’s tons of them!
And they’re not ‘boy racers’, they’re often older, usually men, from a variety of backgrounds, so not something I could attempt to stereotype.

It’s mostly in small streets, so they’re not speeding, just making a freaky racket. If you’re in a house on one of these streets you can’t hear the tv or your own thoughts when they’re passing through. And that can be bloody often. I would previously have associated wanky car noise with ‘rough’ areas, but I’ve found it worse in naice places….

Is this a thing now? AIBU to wish they’d STFU?

Costs a fortune to buy an exhaust that sounds like yours has fallen off. Been a thing for years, back in the late 90’s I could tell my brother in law was visiting a good 3 minutes before he got to the house (quite handy sometimes!)

I’ve seen some recently where two exhausts are paired together at either side of the cars arse. Like 4 gaping drainpipes.

And motorbikes, why so noisy

I live in the Lakes and we've got these nobbers in shite cars, bezzing round all the time. It's nothing new; I grew up in Liverpool and trackie boys in their Nan's souped up Citroen Saxo were everywhere, billowing smoke and making noise!

It seems to have exploded in past few years, for me. I used to hear the occasional one and that was it.

Stayed in lakes for holidays, Ambleside was full of loud bikes, the little towns and villages weren’t built for so much traffic.

As an owner of a moderately loud, albeit completely standard, Italian car I think YABU if the complaint is about daytime noise away from residential streets. Car enthusiasts should be able to enjoy their cars (albeit in a law-abiding manner).

That said, I will concede that some of the deliberately modified small cars with their artificial pops and bangs can be a bit much - particularly when driven with a view to making as much noise as possible.

There's a time and a place - and residential streets of an evening are not it. In that respect YANBU.

Yes, if your neighbour has a popping/farting car and goes to work at 6am it's no fun.

I had no idea about all this and assumed the exhaust had gone to be making that sort of sound.
They've moved away now, how sad.

There is a car in my town that makes really weird noises when it changes gear, kind of like hoooOOO OOO hOOOoooo hooting/whistly kind of sound.

They think it sounds good but it sounds shit and they look embarrassing in their pathetic little fiesta st

@burnthur5t

They think it sounds good but it sounds shit and they look embarrassing in their pathetic little fiesta st

They are often to be found at the drive through McDonalds with other farting/popping car enthusiasts and they hang around there for a bit then all off in some sort of farty convoy. Maybe a bit of racing up and down the dual carriageway.

My neighbour has a status symbol car, large Merc or BMW, and has had the exhaust changed. It sounds like a bag of spanners were left in it, I thought it had blown when I first heard it. He told my other neighbour that he'd had it altered so it sounded more hunky.......

My knobhead xh is a proud owner of a farting exhaust dc (16 and 13) are embarrassed to get in his car. They are also embarrassed of his loud thumping stereo....he is 44 and thinks he is so cool but when he pulls on the drive to collect the dc he literally looks so pathetic!

I have got to admit I am an owner of a car with a very loud exhaust though it's only noisy if you drive it a particular way , but I would never rev it In a built up area. I know several owners with modified cars (classic cars) but we are all respectful.
Saying that there's a knob that roars up our road every morning , as if you look cool doing that up a country lane waking everyone up at 6am.

Why would anyone want any vehicle that makes lots of noise, what's the appeal

Where I am at present it’s from around 6am tom10pm. Mostly small village streets, they growl and shake thriftier and rev repeatedly when slowing/speeding up. Maybe to do with how they change gear?

So yes, extremely residential, it completely dominates the environment, it’s pretty much noise pollution.

Sorry, I meant they growl and shake the Floor. Bloody iPad.

Many, many vehicles are almost silent or what cars used to sound like. Sadly about 70% here are deafening now. It’s pretty weird how it seemed to kick in only recently. Perhaps the pandemic sent people mad

Someone in our village is building a house, and there's someone working on site who arrives on a motorbike at 7.30am. You can hear him coming on the main road 3 miles away before he even gets onto the village access lane.

It's making my blood boil to be honest, it really scared the dogs the other morning when he roared past us on our walk. It's never road legal in a million years.

I always think the need for a noisy car makes up for failings elsewhere - usually related to a small appendage.

@macshoto

As an owner of a moderately loud, albeit completely standard, Italian car I think YABU if the complaint is about daytime noise away from residential streets. Car enthusiasts should be able to enjoy their cars (albeit in a law-abiding manner).

That said, I will concede that some of the deliberately modified small cars with their artificial pops and bangs can be a bit much - particularly when driven with a view to making as much noise as possible.

There's a time and a place - and residential streets of an evening are not it. In that respect YANBU.

Wondering if you have the same car as DH. His has something called a ‘monza exhaust’ fitted as standard. It’s not an issue as we have no close neighbours, but I was mentally cursing him at 7am as he sat warming it up under the bedroom window with it bloody burbling.

I do remember when we were teenagers he had a Nova SR with a bean tin exhaust on the back that could set off every car alarm we drove past. God we thought we were cool 😂😂

What people have their cars modified to make this noise??? I just assumed they had a fault exhaust and couldn’t afford to fix it.
When you think people can’t get any more stupid they go and prove you wrong.

I kind of understand it with a motorbike, my ex got hurt very badly when someone "just didn't see you mate" so the louder exhaust was more of a tool to make sure you were noticed, but not revved pointlessly in built up areas.

Those farty bean can exhausts on cars just give me the absolute rage though. One flew off down the High Street the other day sounding like an amplified flood in a popping candy factory and I have never wanted to punch a car so much.

@Butterismylife

Where I am at present it’s from around 6am tom10pm. Mostly small village streets, they growl and shake thriftier and rev repeatedly when slowing/speeding up. Maybe to do with how they change gear?

So yes, extremely residential, it completely dominates the environment, it’s pretty much noise pollution.

This is my exact experience- I posted about it on here during lockdown.

@Fairyliz

What people have their cars modified to make this noise??? I just assumed they had a fault exhaust and couldn’t afford to fix it. When you think people can’t get any more stupid they go and prove you wrong.

Some of the really expensive German cars have backfiring exhausts like a fucking machine gun as an optional extra (for bellends)

Midlife crisis mobiles. Loathe them. My neighbour had a MLC motorbike he loves to sit on and rev endlessly in his driveway.