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 hugely sympathise but these idiots and their stupid modified cars will become uninsurable in due course.

now, what are we going to do about the “silent” electric cars that go BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP right outside our house at say 2am, beeping because they are reverse parking into the residents only bays right outside our house? (The cars who aren’t residents but have clocked when they can dodge a parking ticket … always seem to to be BEEPING electric cars eh?)

The ones that go down the road banging and parping? I call them farty cars. I imagine the male driver, going down the road with his pants down, arse out of the window, farting as he goes. Utterly embarrassing and I cant imagine why they think it's cool. It sounds like they've shat themselves.

Now, the sound of a Ferrari... something else entirely and a joy to hear.

I was woken up at 2am this morning by one of these little bastards. It’s just not acceptable. They are affecting my life. So far as I understand it, it’s illegal to make more than a certain level of noise. I think the police have simply decided not to enforce this law, just as they don’t bother to arrest shoplifters.

It’s definitely getting worse. There are more of them, and the cars are louder than ever. I remember being annoyed by them four or five years ago, but now they are regularly waking me up as well.

Though there are other modifications that should be viewed as anti-social too. One popular in the US is lifted pick-up trucks. Serves no practical purpose, severely impairs visibility, and is illegal (not that the police care).

Tinting windscreens and front windows too. Manufacturers usually apply the maximum legal tint so any aftermarket tints are illegal. Being able to see the driver of a car is very important when wanting to cross the street safely.

Then there's "rolling coal". Someone who has modified their vehicle to do this is a cunt of the worst sort.

There isn't an objective noise test, but the examiner can fail a car that would (in their view) cause a nuisance.

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/mot-inspection-manual-for-private-passenger-and-light-commercial-vehicles/8-nuisance

We get significant numbers of these cars racing through our semi-rural village - they're bloody everywhere.

it does make me wonder, how do those cars pass their MOT? That's where they should be controlling this antisocial behaviour. They should get them off the road. No MOT = no insurance or road tax. It isn't just one or two, there are frequent offenders racing through the area doing 40mph++

it's like a weapon against society by angry testosterone-filled men. You literally do not see women behind the wheel of these vehicles. It's always men!

Couple of us females on this thread. Where’s your village? I’ll come through in the interests of gender equality and all that.

As already stated, I haven’t got a noisier exhaust on mine than the one it was manufactured with 20 years ago. It’s always been meant to sound like this. As Lamborghinis are…….

so get a muffler of sorts & stop being selfish disturbing others

Do people who drive these ding ding, beep beep cars not realise how annoying it is for neighbours, i wonder

Erm, no. I have to listen to dogs barking, kids screaming (or practicing violin/recorder), people doing DIY/building work, power washers etc which are all far more hideous than the low throb of a performance car.

@ISeeCheekyFuckers are these noises disturbing your sleep in the middle of the night?

Eh?!

It’s often 6/7am for the kids screaming and dog barking, which is pretty antisocial for this night worker.

8am at weekends for the DIY/building work.

Middle of my working day for the violin and recorder practice.

(Midnight isn’t the middle of the night by most measures. Not once in 20 years has a neighbour complained about the sound, and most of my driving is away from houses. Car needs a mile to warm up and cool down so I’m not revving it in the street.)

Facebook hubs have regular complaints about the air ambulance or police helicopter flying low (we’re a couple of miles from a big hospital and there’s lots of woods and farmland where people could be hiding). Not once has there been a complaint about my car.

Exactly.
My son has a performance car, not modified, it has a very loud exhaust. He's a very intelligent, educated, successful ( 2 Masters degrees), normal married man who happens to love cars. He also drives a bog standard small car day to day.

None of his neighbours or my neighbours have complained about the noise of his car, no one anywhere has mentioned it. In fact, he often has people admiring it, who come up to him and talk to him about it, ask to photo it and on a holiday he gave the 12 year old son of where they were staying the thrill of his life by allowing him to sit in the driver's seat and rev the car( stationary and on private land).

His exhaust neither pops nor bangs and he doesn't speed around at 2am in the car either.

It definitely depends on how they’re used, though I admit to a hatred of noisy motorbikes, they sound so much worse than performance cars. Had some wee cunt sitting outside our house at 3am recently revving his shitty little bike. Fuck off.