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Recently moved to a new address and have encountered that issue you always hope happens to someone else.
A wide boy with a big exhaust on a car.
My flat is ground floor and there is parking underneath the ground floor, you guessed it this guy parks underneath my bedroom, and best of all he works shifts I think so is up early, and home early hours on lates.
This is basically an alarm clock every time it happens. Now the lad does not rev or anything it is just a low pitched growly sort of noise that carries all over the flat and it would not bother me at all other than the fact he works shifts.
I have not approached him, as I believe anyone who would do this would probably not give a toss anyway, and the previous tenant I gather worked nights so not an issue for them.
I have messaged the property managers to see what they say. And I am aware there is law about this, but I doubt it covers simply noise, more likely to cover excessive noise.
I am committed now to being here for 6 months, but will have to consider leaving early if there is nothing can be done as it really does impact my sleep pattern and I should not have to get used to it, simply because the selfish arse thinks he can do what he wants in a place where people sleep over his car parking space.
A wide boy with a big exhaust on a car.
My flat is ground floor and there is parking underneath the ground floor, you guessed it this guy parks underneath my bedroom, and best of all he works shifts I think so is up early, and home early hours on lates.
This is basically an alarm clock every time it happens. Now the lad does not rev or anything it is just a low pitched growly sort of noise that carries all over the flat and it would not bother me at all other than the fact he works shifts.
I have not approached him, as I believe anyone who would do this would probably not give a toss anyway, and the previous tenant I gather worked nights so not an issue for them.
I have messaged the property managers to see what they say. And I am aware there is law about this, but I doubt it covers simply noise, more likely to cover excessive noise.
I am committed now to being here for 6 months, but will have to consider leaving early if there is nothing can be done as it really does impact my sleep pattern and I should not have to get used to it, simply because the selfish arse thinks he can do what he wants in a place where people sleep over his car parking space.
Its some kind of Audi Coupe
Yes I was expecting to hear car noise, but this is not a standard exhausts fitment, a normal car might make you stir. This however has a resonance that would wake anyone up, and I sleep with ear plugs too.
And the issue is not the noise, it is the times it happens, basically whenever he leaves for work on earlies or gets back after a late shift.
Yes I was expecting to hear car noise, but this is not a standard exhausts fitment, a normal car might make you stir. This however has a resonance that would wake anyone up, and I sleep with ear plugs too.
And the issue is not the noise, it is the times it happens, basically whenever he leaves for work on earlies or gets back after a late shift.
Edited by LukeBrown66 on Tuesday 20th July 18:20
Sorry but if you live in a built up area and drive a car with a loud exhaust, that is selfish in my eyes. You cannot expect everyone to be happy to put up with exhaust noise in an area where there are countless flats and houses
It is a 4 cylinder something, all graphiced up and stuff, obviously pride and joy, fair enough. Just not at 5am and 2pm when he drives to and from work.
I have no issue with the noise at normal times, but at those hours it simply comes across as excessive
It is a 4 cylinder something, all graphiced up and stuff, obviously pride and joy, fair enough. Just not at 5am and 2pm when he drives to and from work.
I have no issue with the noise at normal times, but at those hours it simply comes across as excessive
As usual a lot of posters missing the point.
I do not have an issue with a noisy car, I am here, I like cars, I have done for years.
But it is the unsocial hours it happens I am struggling with. Imagine knowing that every weekday you will be woken up by a car for the next 6 months. Would you be happy?
What can I do, I can't ask him to do anything to quieten it down, that's not fair it is not VERY loud, I can't ask him to bloody change jobs so I am stuck with it, but again, imagine KNOWING this is going to happen every sodding work day for the next 6 months and imagine how you would feel.
It is just a bit depressing.
I do not have an issue with a noisy car, I am here, I like cars, I have done for years.
But it is the unsocial hours it happens I am struggling with. Imagine knowing that every weekday you will be woken up by a car for the next 6 months. Would you be happy?
What can I do, I can't ask him to do anything to quieten it down, that's not fair it is not VERY loud, I can't ask him to bloody change jobs so I am stuck with it, but again, imagine KNOWING this is going to happen every sodding work day for the next 6 months and imagine how you would feel.
It is just a bit depressing.
Thanks for replies, it is just terrible bad luck and there is not much I can do about it except move, my parking bay is not far from his so that doesn't help much, and it is only the shift work that is an issue, I don't have issue with the car otherwise.
Ear plugs don't block it out as it is a deep reseonance, these are cheap flats so are not built to deal with such things I guess.
I just wish I had known or I would have never moved here obviously as its now in my head and causing me sleepless nights worrying about it, stupid I know, but that is what this kind of thing does to you as there is no way out, nothing I can really do.
Ear plugs don't block it out as it is a deep reseonance, these are cheap flats so are not built to deal with such things I guess.
I just wish I had known or I would have never moved here obviously as its now in my head and causing me sleepless nights worrying about it, stupid I know, but that is what this kind of thing does to you as there is no way out, nothing I can really do.
Great news
He has left the building!!
I was using ear plugs etc, all the usual stuff, the issue was not really the noise, although that was rather loud, it was that the car port was under the flat, hence it reverberated round it, and he worked shifts
Absolutely nothing I could do, he could not swap parking spaces as they were all full, I doubt he would have agreed to park elsewhere, he can't change jobs and I very much doubt he would have done much to shut the car up.
Just goes to show that when this happens, there is very little one can do other than move or hope they move.
Bit of a shame really but I do still feel a person working shifts and driving a car that makes more noise than standard that parks underneath accommodation that is a little bit selfish.
He has left the building!!
I was using ear plugs etc, all the usual stuff, the issue was not really the noise, although that was rather loud, it was that the car port was under the flat, hence it reverberated round it, and he worked shifts
Absolutely nothing I could do, he could not swap parking spaces as they were all full, I doubt he would have agreed to park elsewhere, he can't change jobs and I very much doubt he would have done much to shut the car up.
Just goes to show that when this happens, there is very little one can do other than move or hope they move.
Bit of a shame really but I do still feel a person working shifts and driving a car that makes more noise than standard that parks underneath accommodation that is a little bit selfish.
I draw the line at 2am, and 5 am, turning the car on and leaving it for 2 minutes, it wasn't even that flash, he was just having a fag before getting intot he damn thing.
This is cheap housing so one cannot be choosy obviously as it caters for all sorts, but I have lived in many places and never experienced an issue before, so it was fairly unique.
But to make a choice of choosing to make your car loud, then live very close to a heck of a lot of people and park under their homes, sorry to me that is at least ignorant if not selfish
This is cheap housing so one cannot be choosy obviously as it caters for all sorts, but I have lived in many places and never experienced an issue before, so it was fairly unique.
But to make a choice of choosing to make your car loud, then live very close to a heck of a lot of people and park under their homes, sorry to me that is at least ignorant if not selfish
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