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?

I have a very fast and powerful car. It’s my absolute joy (after my kid, animals, husband yady yady yada) and it makes the most glorious noise. When I drop down a gear it has incredible engine pops and gurgles (not like a sudden misfire, that is poor engine maintenance - spark plugs, in burnt fuel, injector issues etc) more like popping, bubbling lava. It sounds amazing at low speeds and even better on a track. Roll on reliably dry weather.

daim luckily my driving days pre dated the retina burners.

I am moving and really hoping to be done by summer - the car and bike noises are much worse then. (Where I'm going is hopefully harder to drive that way as the flat is on a spot where they should, in theory, have drive more slowly).

@BotterMon

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

I think this too!

I've noticed this in our town too. Mostly evenings/overnight. I'll be awake overnight feeding the baby and hear these dickheads with their shitty loud exhausts tearing going up and down a duel carriageway that's quite far from me.

It has always been a thing, I remember it a bit from the 90s, but the last year or so it seems to have really take off again.

It gives me absolute rage that these losers think they have the God given right to disturb hundreds of other people just to drive their rusting crapmobile around residential streets in the wee hour. Just fuck off and go to bed, seriously, you utter twats.

it’s not a modified exhaust making the pop and bang noise it’s an engine remap

The cars that have it as standard (E.g golf R) have a gadget in the exhaust that artificially makes the noise.

Back in the day you’d have to either ensure your car over fuelled to do it, or there was a trick with a spark plug. But now it’s just a. Plug in £100 pop corn remap.

It’s because it impresses their 14 year old girlfriends when they take them to mc Donald’s.

@daimbarsatemydogsbone

In that case can my car have the guinea pig noises from Pui Pui Molcar please?

It would be brilliant wouldn’t it. Just quietly puing away

@Horst

It’s because it impresses their 14 year old girlfriends when they take them to mc Donald’s.

Yes probably this

I just don't understand
a) why they think anyone would be impressed
b) why anyone would actually BE impressed

Sad little fannies

That car is probably a diesel that’s had it’s DPF removed.

I’ve owned more than one car with the DPF removed and can’t say I’ve noticed any real difference in sound.

@BotterMon

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

Whereas a man who drives a small, quiet car will be hung like a grand national winner

The silent smooth ones look no sound pretty fucking classy. We always call the noisy ones ‘pov cars’, they do sound like a desperation to be the most dominant animal in the pack - and which usually is the most insecure.

I know some people seem to like it, and the excuses are hilarious - I don’t use residential streets! So, like, you live in the middle of a moor?
I’m sure they think people admire it haha. In rural areas they never bother cleaning the mud off. It’s a status thing, ‘know?

Ooh, a whisper quiet engine would be very appealing.

What's pov please?

Baby I always remember being at a friend's house, in the back garden with a few people and her sleeping baby. It was a lovely afternoon. We were quite sozzled (not including the baby). 😂

Suddenly one of these total utter bellends drove by the front of the house. So loud, we all jumped out of our skin in spite of being so relaxed.

But what really struck me was the poor baby who practically jumped out of her rocker in shock, she was literally bounced awake by the noise and she was so scared, it was horrible. I am childfree and not renowned for being over sensitive about this sort of thing.

I don't even know why those noises would be appealing on a race track.

@AintNobodyHereButUsChickens

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.

There's one exactly like that round the road from me! It's the oddest noise.

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

*Look at meeee! Listen to meeee! Meeee! Meeee! MEEEE!!!!!!

It's the mantra of the twenty-first century. Overgrown toddlers dressed up as adults but still demanding that everyone look and listen only to MEEEE!!!!!! Wanker cars (farting exhausts, blaring stereos, SUVs that take up four spaces in the supermarket car park) are only one symptom.*

Absolutely. But do you think that they realise that everyone IS looking at them- and thinking "What an utter cunt"?

Regarding the "it's to impress women" theory- I dunno. Has any woman on this thread ever been impressed by a noisy engine? Does anybody know any women/ girls who have ever been attracted to this?

I think they enjoy pissing people off.

Also, if we're placing orders for our fantasy electric car noises, can I have the "boink" noise from Out of Space by the Prodigy please?

And also, a sad clown trombone noise to sound whenever a noisy engine twat crosses my path

"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."

Do you live near Sprucefield/Lisburn @Sparklingbrook? Or are there farty car enthusiasts in every Maccies carpark?

Cock Trumpets.

My exhaust sounded like that once. I took it to the garage the same day, it turned out that the rust holding it to the chassis had finally given way. Was quite an awkward journey to work though, trying to park in a residential area without waking up the entire town.

@daimbarsatemydogsbone

If you are being annoyed by a noisy exhaust you can report to the Police via 101 or to your local council. Good luck with that

I've got a sack of potatoes I can use. Should be more effective to shove a few of them somewhere dark...

It’s because it impresses their 14 year old girlfriends when they take them to mc Donald’s.

Yes probably this

I just don't understand
a) why they think anyone would be impressed
b) why anyone would actually BE impressed

Sad little fannies

Do they pull this face?

I mean the one at 1:40

Ludlow here. That charming oasis loved by and recommended by MN, it’s like a giant fucking car park, revving, growling, up and down the main streets from morning to night. And no, I don’t mean tourists. Locals, and they are not frequenting Mac Donald’s , generally mud splattered vehicles that sound like juggernauts but look like a small family car - both men and women, parking, slamming, then going back to the damn thing to open and slam all the doors five more times before walking away. noisy as fuck.

How amyone pays £650 for a Georgian terrace to put up with this is mind blowing.

@Butterismylife

How amyone pays £650 for a Georgian terrace to put up with this is mind blowing.

£650 sounds like a bargain.