Stupidly Loud Exhausts

[anonymous-user]

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[DaveH23]

Perhaps a non confrontational conversation.

He could be a very reasonable chap, he may not be aware it's causing you such distress.

[Welcome.]

anonymous said:

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Radical idea admittedly but try talking to him.

Although even then, unless he sells the car or parks it somewhere else to annoy someone else, not sure you will get the outcome you are looking for.

[Master Of Puppets]

Put a note through his door with a rap on it. something like...

Well I'm a brain dead fr causing trouble and strife,

All I need is noizee exhausts in ma life,

Poppin and banging everywhere that I go,

Look at me an assle I'm smoking ma dope.


Might not stop him but it will give you a laugh if nothing else.

[Wacky Racer]

1 Fit triple glazing

2 Buy some good earplugs

3 Have a polite word with him (From a distance)

4 Inform the council's noise department

5 Carrot rammed up his exhaust so it can't be seen.

6 Don't let this get to you.



We've all been young once, I fitted a Peco big bore and wooden steering wheel to my new bog standard 1100 Ford Escort mk 1 in 1970.

[Wacky Racer]

Seriously, good luck, let us know how you go on.

[scorcher]

A can of expanding foam will sort it

[alfaspecial]

Master Of Puppets said:

Put a note through his door with a rap on it. something like...

Well I'm a brain dead fr causing trouble and strife,

All I need is noizee exhausts in ma life,

Poppin and banging everywhere that I go,

Look at me an assle I'm smoking ma dope.


Might not stop him but it will give you a laugh if nothing else.

Gave me a laugh........


Seriously, loud exhausts are a pain. We live some distance from a roundabout for two A roads.
During lockdown, particularly early on summer mornings, there were dozens of sports bikes running at full pelt (noise not speed) It was a PITA.


To the OP, if you would like some PH wisdom, other than dominating the stairs, or hammering frozen sausages into his lawn, or seeding his lawn with a giant cock-and-balls using mustard and cress.......

Now, I would NOT want to be accused of encouraging you to do something so immature as:
Print up a flyer, using official looking Police stationery
(which could be obtained by writing a letter to your local constabulary about some innocuous matter but requiring a written reply - photocopying it after removing the content of the letter, so you have effectively a blank sheet of official police letterhead)

The flyer would say something along the lines of
"We (the police) are trialing noise detecting cameras in the area and that anyone 'flashed' will be required to visit the local police station and have their car tested"
You could make reference to a local newspaper article, if one is available, supporting noise detection cameras
eg Bristol https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/no...

Post the flyer through his door,
and
Wait a couple of weeks and unobserved, photograph him driving his car driving on a fast-ish road.

Then, using your local constabulary Police letterhead, send him a 'request to attend his local police station' to explain a photo of his car superimposed with noise reading of say 103 decibells. (72 decibels is legal limit).

With a bit of luck he'd attend and effectively shop himself. And that would give the police a bit of a laugh.

Edited by alfaspecial on Sunday 17th September 10:36

[andy43]

Welcome. said:

anonymous said:

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Radical idea admittedly but try talking to him.

Although even then, unless he sells the car or parks it somewhere else to annoy someone else, not sure you will get the outcome you are looking for.

Yeah, just politely speak to him. Ask him when he’s getting it fixed.
I may have been asked that a couple of times myself.

[The Wookie]

Don’t worry it’ll probably get stolen soon

[bmwmike]

I've a neighbour who had a stupidly loud exhaust and luckily the MOT place found loads of faults with it and he had to put it back to stock. He still revs the tits off it as he drives past my house at 6am every morning but I roll over and to back to sleep content that I don't have to get up at stupid o clock just to get to work.

[Patio]

alfaspecial said:

Master Of Puppets said:

Put a note through his door with a rap on it. something like...

Well I'm a brain dead fr causing trouble and strife,

All I need is noizee exhausts in ma life,

Poppin and banging everywhere that I go,

Look at me an assle I'm smoking ma dope.


Might not stop him but it will give you a laugh if nothing else.

Gave me a laugh........


Seriously, loud exhausts are a pain. We live some distance from a roundabout for two A roads.
During lockdown, particularly early on summer mornings, there were dozens of sports bikes running at full pelt (noise not speed) It was a PITA.


To the OP, if you would like some PH wisdom, other than dominating the stairs, or hammering frozen sausages into his lawn, or seeding his lawn with a giant cock-and-balls using mustard and cress.......

Now, I would NOT want to be accused of encouraging you to do something so immature as:
Print up a flyer, using official looking Police stationery
(which could be obtained by writing a letter to your local constabulary about some innocuous matter but requiring a written reply - photocopying it after removing the content of the letter, so you have effectively a blank sheet of official police letterhead)

The flyer would say something along the lines of
"We (the police) are trialing noise detecting cameras in the area and that anyone 'flashed' will be required to visit the local police station and have their car tested"
You could make reference to a local newspaper article, if one is available, supporting noise detection cameras
eg Bristol https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/no...

Post the flyer through his door,
and
Wait a couple of weeks and unobserved, photograph him driving his car driving on a fast-ish road.

Then, using your local constabulary Police letterhead, send him a 'request to attend his local police station' to explain a photo of his car superimposed with noise reading of say 103 decibells. (72 decibels is legal limit).

With a bit of luck he'd attend and effectively shop himself. And that would give the police a bit of a laugh.

Edited by alfaspecial on Sunday 17th September 10:36

That is a fantastic idea

I too have one of these idiots near me

An old mazda 3 that sounds like an F1 car starting up when he goes to work at 7am every morning

Not a young guy either, have seen him dropping a kid off at school quite often

[Welcome.]

anonymous said:

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Seriously?

So it's fine for you to have a noisy car, but nobody else can.

[andy43]

anonymous said:

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Genunely the loudest and most offensive exhausts I've had apart from a Griff that could set car alarms off at 20 paces was either a Maserati - 2014 MC - completely standard, or a CLS55 with C63 back boxes. One modded, one not - and it was the standard car that neighbours thought was broken.

[Jamescrs]

Get a car with a louder exhaust than his and start going out at 430 am every day and obviously allow your car to warm up before you drive away.

If you can't beat them, join them

[Jag_NE]

I always drive my MX5 at at least 9/10ths and the sound is a joy to behold for all within earshot.

Likewise, the burble of a NA V8 is a symphony to the ears and although I’ve never owned one I am delighted they exist.

Also I hate automatic gearboxes and anything powered by diesel.

[normalbloke]

Jag_NE said:

I always drive my MX5 at at least 9/10ths and the sound is a joy to behold for all within earshot.

Likewise, the burble of a NA V8 is a symphony to the ears and although I’ve never owned one I am delighted they exist.

Also I hate automatic gearboxes and anything powered by diesel.

1/10.

[the-norseman]

Jag_NE said:

Also I hate automatic gearboxes and anything powered by diesel.

I'd take a diesel anyday over a MX5.

[anonymous-user]

normalbloke said:

Jag_NE said:

I always drive my MX5 at at least 9/10ths and the sound is a joy to behold for all within earshot

1. You have to because they are so slow
2. No one cares what it sounds like

[Yertis]

No four-cylinder engine ever sounds any good. You need at least five. But four just sounds boring if even if rev the nuts off it. On reflection, two and three cylinder engines also sound better those with four cylinders.