Exhaust farty popping noises ?
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So many modern quick cars do the farty pop noises on gearshifts, it seems to encourage dickish behaviour to get passers by to look, anyone else noticed this ? no problem with a bit of exhaust noise but this does seem to make some drivers want to trigger the noise for attention, does it only happen under load ?
Was at the airport at a car even at the viewing park, and some pillock in an A45 went hammering across the pedestrian area making the racket, then across the car park and then absolutely hammered it down the approach road past people walking.
Same today, retail park car park, RS3 driven way too fast making a noise, then a MK2 Focus RS.
Go through any city/town centre and you see geezers in similar cars doing this, I suppose we have all done it but a sports exhaust will make a noise without going fast, have seen similar cars that dont make the "brapp" on upshift, can you turn it off or drive without it happening ?
Was at the airport at a car even at the viewing park, and some pillock in an A45 went hammering across the pedestrian area making the racket, then across the car park and then absolutely hammered it down the approach road past people walking.
Same today, retail park car park, RS3 driven way too fast making a noise, then a MK2 Focus RS.
Go through any city/town centre and you see geezers in similar cars doing this, I suppose we have all done it but a sports exhaust will make a noise without going fast, have seen similar cars that dont make the "brapp" on upshift, can you turn it off or drive without it happening ?
My S3 does this, mostly under a bit of load and at higher revs but it doesn’t make me rip about town like a yobbo! I think the people that want to attract attention to themselves would drive the same way whether their car farted or not.. and to be honest, who really cares if your car farts or bangs as you drive past the local spoons or greggs, not like there are many desirables to be impressing, nor is there anyone who will be particularly interested!
FreeLitres said:
J4CKO said:
Not jealous,
Just messing. I know some of the guys from my TVR days would remove the cats in order to get a few more pops and bangs. Not having the cats in would be an MOT failure so I never bothered as I wanted to be squeeky clean with insurance, etc.On a TVR with not much of an exhaust it's more of a close range artillery battery than farts. Lifting off in 3rd at about 3k can be quite upsetting
I was there for ages whilst Halfords made a balls of fitting my stereo
Apart from the farty exhausts, there was an R8 making a racket and a minor parking disagreement resulted some bellend in a sheddy mk1 Focus revving it to the limiter and setting off in a frenzy of squealing tyres and as much tyre smoke as it could manage and carried on accelerating.
Reinforces my usual policy of avoiding retail parks, seemed like a good idea getting a fairly fiddly stereo fitting done for thirty quid, but three hours passed and the rear speakers dont work, it pops when I change channel and the fitter forgot to install the Bluetooth mic, and then I went to the gym and left the lights on and flattened what was left of the battery after three hours of the ignition being on.
Apart from the farty exhausts, there was an R8 making a racket and a minor parking disagreement resulted some bellend in a sheddy mk1 Focus revving it to the limiter and setting off in a frenzy of squealing tyres and as much tyre smoke as it could manage and carried on accelerating.
Reinforces my usual policy of avoiding retail parks, seemed like a good idea getting a fairly fiddly stereo fitting done for thirty quid, but three hours passed and the rear speakers dont work, it pops when I change channel and the fitter forgot to install the Bluetooth mic, and then I went to the gym and left the lights on and flattened what was left of the battery after three hours of the ignition being on.
The VAG 2.0T isnt the best sounding engine at the best of times and those 'DSG farts' sound awful, embarrassingly awful infact, enough that if I was in the market for one I would deliberately buy a manual just to avoid it.
There is an R32 near me that has had an exhaust and presumably a map fitted to make it backfire as much as possible, except it backfires at normal road speeds... every time this thing accelerates away from lights, a junction, from slowing down behind a turning car BLOP PLOP BLOPLBPLPOPLBOBLOPBBLBOPPLPOPLOP... and I am sure the owner thinks it sounds amazing and everyone is looking at him because he is obviously the coolest guy on the roads. No idea how the owner can live with it, it would drive me mental. The R32 is an interesting and unique sounding engine too but this idiot has ruined it with his daft exhaust and map.
There is an R32 near me that has had an exhaust and presumably a map fitted to make it backfire as much as possible, except it backfires at normal road speeds... every time this thing accelerates away from lights, a junction, from slowing down behind a turning car BLOP PLOP BLOPLBPLPOPLBOBLOPBBLBOPPLPOPLOP... and I am sure the owner thinks it sounds amazing and everyone is looking at him because he is obviously the coolest guy on the roads. No idea how the owner can live with it, it would drive me mental. The R32 is an interesting and unique sounding engine too but this idiot has ruined it with his daft exhaust and map.
Meridius said:
The VAG 2.0T isnt the best sounding engine at the best of times and those 'DSG farts' sound awful, embarrassingly awful infact, enough that if I was in the market for one I would deliberately buy a manual just to avoid it.
There is an R32 near me that has had an exhaust and presumably a map fitted to make it backfire as much as possible, except it backfires at normal road speeds... every time this thing accelerates away from lights, a junction, from slowing down behind a turning car BLOP PLOP BLOPLBPLPOPLBOBLOPBBLBOPPLPOPLOP... and I am sure the owner thinks it sounds amazing and everyone is looking at him because he is obviously the coolest guy on the roads. No idea how the owner can live with it, it would drive me mental. The R32 is an interesting and unique sounding engine too but this idiot has ruined it with his daft exhaust and map.
There was a guy in an R32 as well, sounded good but he was going a bit quick, then parked in a disabled space without a badge or any obvious incapacity other than being a tThere is an R32 near me that has had an exhaust and presumably a map fitted to make it backfire as much as possible, except it backfires at normal road speeds... every time this thing accelerates away from lights, a junction, from slowing down behind a turning car BLOP PLOP BLOPLBPLPOPLBOBLOPBBLBOPPLPOPLOP... and I am sure the owner thinks it sounds amazing and everyone is looking at him because he is obviously the coolest guy on the roads. No idea how the owner can live with it, it would drive me mental. The R32 is an interesting and unique sounding engine too but this idiot has ruined it with his daft exhaust and map.
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