To be sick to death of noisy cars?

[Dappy777]

Is it just me or are they getting worse? So many people now modify their cars so they make a hideous screeching noise when accelerating. Others modify the exhaust so it bangs and explodes. They are so loud they wake me up at night. I have even bought some noise cancelling earphones for when I'm trying to read – in my own house! There is a motorway 2 miles from here and I can hear them even with my windows closed.

If you work hard and love cars then great, save up and buy yourself a nice one. But it isn't fair to upset others. I was walking to the shops with a young child once when one of these idiots accelerated past us. The banging and exploding sound from the exhaust made her stop, put her hands over her ears and burst into tears. The police just do nothing. I have seen social media posts complaining about these cars from fifteen years ago, and they're worse than ever.

I agree and those really noisy motorbikes too. Most cars & motorbikes aren’t noisy but some exhaust mufflers are removed etc. it needs to be banned and there should be fines for exceeding decibels / we need noise cameras . Causes so much stress

Yanbu

They trigger my anxiety and make driving stressful

I think some police avoid doing any actual work , I’ve seen police turning blind eye to stuff they shouldn’t
maybe they are afraid

Are you talking about modified exhausts or supercars like Porsche, nissan, Ferrari, Lamborghini etc which have no modifications but do still have extremely loud exhausts?
Because in my experience the ones that can afford a supercar are a different type of person to the ones with souped up cheaper cars that drive around in the night, although they both enjoy the sound of the engines.

Personally I think Reeves should target antisocial idiots like this in the budget. They clearly have more money than sense to keep spending on modifications just to annoy everyone on their street. Our local reprobates also have a Reform flag, so they're really selling it to us all...

Ironically an aftermarket, very noisy but still legal exhaust is often much cheaper than buying an OEM exhaust from the manufacturer. £100 will get you a functional but very noisy aftermarket exhaust for most motorbikes, but manufacturers often want in excess of £800 for an original one of it's damaged.

I suggest that the sale of 'noisy' exhausts and various other bits of modification kit should be prohibited

Noisy cars to me indicate a car is there to children, i dont think these silent electric cars are safe people may say they have a camera or sensors but unless children have the sensors too I am happy cars have some noise

I think that the drivers of these noisy cars or motorbikes don’t realise that I (and I suspect many others) are not impressed. I just think “there goes another immature virgin with no partner, who can’t afford a proper car”.

I don't like the noisy (modified) cars, but I also don't like those really quiet electric cars, especially as a pedestrian, they can be hard to hear.

But there is a special place in hell for people with those ultra bright headlights.

I don t even like those cars that go ding bloody ding when they reverse

I’ve a 20 year old unmodified rally car. Exceptionally rare and still as fun as the day I bought her (new). An engineering masterpiece.

She sounds utterly gorgeous and is loud but no pops or bangs. Completely legal and serviced regularly by a specialist. Any replacement parts have been as close to original spec as possible - no upgrades. Can’t buy anything like her these days - closest you’d get sound-wise would be a Lamborghini……..

I do pop out at midnight occasionally to show the local fiesta-tweakers how it should be done. Their faces when they realise I’m a middle-aged woman is a picture. 😂

(In 20 years or so we’ll all be driving go-karts so I’m making the most of it while I can.)

She’d make more fining middle/outer lane hoggers. Fucking hundreds of them on a 250 mile drive I did last night.

”The elderly” have trouble with traffic noise more than others do they?

It is such selfish and horrible behaviour. But I always feel that anyone who feels the need to do this must in fact feel like they are in fact a very small person.

I always taught my sons that if they see a man driving aggressively and dangerously it means they have a small willy and I would add modified cars to that!

Yes, always the ones with small willies and a chip on their shoulder. Usually also doing illegal steroids too which makes them aggressive and emotionally unstable. The joys!

I'd sooner have noise than the quiet electric cars, at least you know they're there.

Please can we add in the bastards who have to crank up the music and drive with their windows open as they crawl along in traffic jams (and of course, at all other times). Yes, we know you want us to look at you, trust me, we are, just not for the reason you want.

I always taught my sons that if they see a man driving aggressively and dangerously it means they have a small willy and I would add modified cars to that

Surely it depends on what the modifications are.

My husband drives a modified car and so do I. I haven’t got a willy at all, and my husband must be the exception that proves the rule.

They don’t make any more noise than an unmodified car.

This is also caused by people driving way too fast. I've noticed a massive increase in dangerous driving over the last couple of years. People seem to have forgotten that they're in control of a potentially lethal machine.

Also, just the sheer number of cars on the road. Most people (who are perfectly capable) don't seem to walk, even the shortest of distances any more. It's sometimes a struggle to hold a conversation with my DC on the way to school in the mornings because there's so much traffic noise.

You do know, we don't do it for other people, right?

I also don't have a willy.

I'm a professional who also happens to love modified cars. i could afford to go out and buy an "expensive" car tomorrow, but life's too short to do boring things.

i use one of my cars on track days, it's less than 100db at full chat.

Pop & bang maps however, should absolutely be illegal. There are very few cars that "need" to do that and Joe Bloggs in his Astra VXR or Golf GTi isn't one of them.

@Dappy777 Your initial comment “the police do nothing” is the relevant one here. We live in a tiny village but we can occasionally hear racing on the bypass around 1 mile away. We see tyre doughnuts around a roundabout or in the road. One assumes the police are having their cocoa. If it was in a residential street I’d certainly be calling the police commissioner. It’s very unsafe but when did the police worry about any of this? It’s a case of getting publicity and speaking out.

@cinquanta in the context of this thread, “modified” refers to modified to make a lot of noise. I couldn’t care less about any other modifications and I’d be surprised if anyone else did either. Deliberately making a vehicle louder is anti social behaviour,

This why I live in the middle of nowhere.

Last time I went to London I tried to hold a conversation with someone as we were walking along - fat chance - could not hear each other at all.

It won't be a problem soon once we're all driving EVs.