Pops and bangs and boy racers.

[Chippy_Tea]

The sooner they bring these cameras here the better, if you dont know what i am moaning about (i am sure you do) have a look at the videos below.

If you have pets and live on a road where these ***** regularly drive you will know how annoying it is.



A new-age road camera designed to identify and track drivers who break the law by revving engines and using modified exhausts will be installed in Bradford today (18 October 2022), before travelling to South Gloucestershire, Great Yarmouth and Birmingham as part of a trial to clampdown on antisocial driving.

The Transport Secretary has confirmed these 4 locations will host the new ‘noise camera’ following a government-backed competition to tackle noise pollution on some of the loudest streets in Britain.

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/...radford-bristol-great-yarmouth-and-birmingham

 

[Robin54]

The sooner they bring these cameras here the better, if you dont know what i am moaning about (i am sure you do) have a look at the videos below.
If you have pets and live on a road where these ***** regularly drive you will know how annoying it is.
A new-age road camera designed to identify and track drivers who break the law by revving engines and using modified exhausts will be installed in Bradford today (18 October 2022), before travelling to South Gloucestershire, Great Yarmouth and Birmingham as part of a trial to clampdown on antisocial driving.
The Transport Secretary has confirmed these 4 locations will host the new ‘noise camera’ following a government-backed competition to tackle noise pollution on some of the loudest streets in Britain.
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/...radford-bristol-great-yarmouth-and-birmingham

The sooner the better. Its symptomatic of the mad world today. Ive got 2 in my area - a couple of aholes - whats the point?

 

[Chippy_Tea]

whats the point?

Its look at me syndrome, i wonder how they pass the MOT.

People gathering to listen and film them if they were 10 years old i would get it but FFS look at them, unbelievable.

 

[Robin54]

Its look at me syndrome, i wonder how they pass the MOT.

People gathering to listen and film them if they were 10 years old i would get it but FFS look at them, unbelievable.

Ha - I think your misinterpreted my reply "Whats the point" was aimed at the tossers driving the car -NOT you

 

[Chippy_Tea]

Whats the point" was aimed at the tossers driving the car

I didn't think you meant me

 

[Graz]

I can't complain, in my younger days I had an Impreza Turbo with a straight through big bore stainless exhaust system. The noise was fantastic.

However I didn't drive it a full tilt round residential areas as that would be a bit anti social At idle or low revs it wasn't that much louder than an unmodified equivalent.

As per usual the idiot minority are trying to ruin everything for us true petrol heads.

As for passing the MoT, it was a half hour job to refit the original centre section of the exhaust that had a catalytic converter in it. Just needed to be sure it was sufficiently warmed before arriving at the MoT station. Then another half hour back at home later putting the modified centre back on. Job done for the year. Don't know if noise testing is now part of the MoT but I doubt your average Ferrari would pass if it was.

 

[Chippy_Tea]

As per usual the idiot minority are trying to ruin everything for us true petrol heads.

Spot on.
If they want to go to a car park on the edge of town and rev the spuds off their cars fair enough but they don't they want to go round the town centre doing laps red lining the car in second gear so the annoying thing pops and bangs like in the video.

 

[Goldthirst]

We get the annoying boy racers popping away in their 'Kiddie Karts' as I call them, around here too.

 

[London]

A pops and bang remap ******* the timing so it back fires with you lift of the gas so between gears change etc it all ruins your catalytic convert, so big bills are heading their way hopefully very soon. Lot of knobs around here have the remaps, drives me mental.

 

[Robin54]

We get the annoying boy racers popping away in their 'Kiddie Karts' as I call them, around here too.

They always have a window down with drum and bass thumping, whilst wearing a baseball cap the wrong way around - I would have more respect if they did it wearing a Harris Tweed suit

 

[Chippy_Tea]

A pops and bang remap ******* the timing so it back fires with you lift of the gas so between gears change etc it all ruins your catalytic convert, so big bills are heading their way hopefully very soon. Lot of knobs around here have the remaps, drives me mental.

So not only are they harming the car with big bills down the line they are also losing performance, how dumb are these people.

 

[Jim Brewster]

If someone is just revving the car to be a nuisance or driving dangerously it's one thing, but I wonder how many of the people who complain about noisy cars have petrol powered strimmers, angle grinders and the like that are over 100db. That's more of a nuisance in my view as it's done over an extended period next to properties whereas a noisy car is gone by in a couple of seconds.

Motorbikes are more often a lot louder than cars too so perhaps it's the image of a young lad in a modified hatchback more than the actual noise that's winding people up, and the behaviour of a bad few, otherwise I would have an issue with older gentlemen on loud motorbikes at the weekend

 

[Chippy_Tea]

but I wonder how many of the people who complain about noisy cars have petrol powered strimmers, angle grinders and the like that are over 100db. That's more of a nuisance

The difference being you didn't modify a strimmer to make it louder and the strimmer will annoy your neighbour for an hour once a month (that's a guess i don't do gardening) not the whole town centre every night.

 

[Graz]

A pops and bang remap ******* the timing so it back fires with you lift of the gas so between gears change etc it all ruins your catalytic convert, so big bills are heading their way hopefully very soon. Lot of knobs around here have the remaps, drives me mental.

I would suspect a lot of them have changed the exhausts too and removed all the catalytic converters. See my early post, easy enough to swap one back in when you need an MoT Note: I don't condone this sort of thing, just saying there are ways.

 

[Jim Brewster]

The difference being you didn't modify a strimmer to make it louder and the strimmer will annoy your neighbour for an hour once a month

Petrol powered garden tools don't tend to have any silencing to begin with, that's why the manufacturers tell you to wear hearing protection.

It's not an hour a month if you live on an estate. Pretty sure you'll hear more power tools, garden equipment and motorbikes on an average day than noisy cars.

 

[Twogunrocky]

I passed my driving test just after I turned 17 and was insured on the work van that same day, a nissan cabstar flatbed..... it had been thrashed to death by the other chippies and had atleast 2 replacement engines from when I started my apprenticeship at 16.
We used to do a lot of council work on a craphole estate called Graham park in Hendon, right next to the police training centre, and driving there and back there was a short underpass that lasted about 20 seconds, well the cabstar was so knackered that if you turned the ignition off and timed it right going through the underpass, the thing would backfire like a cannon.
I caught a few people, man was that funny when you're 17

 

[Chippy_Tea]

It's not an hour a month if you live on an estate. Pretty sure you'll hear more power tools, garden equipment and motorbikes on an average day than noisy cars.

One gardener with a strimmer annoys a few people for an hour every time he uses it one knob head in a car annoys the whole town centre and is joined by several of his knob head mates every night for a few hours, i think i know which i would rather have to deal with!

Feel free to open a noisy gardeners thread so this stays on topic if you feel so strongly about it

 

[Jim Brewster]

Feel free to open a noisy gardeners thread so this stays on topic if you feel so strongly about it

Just pointing out that it's more of a case of what you choose to get annoyed about, it varies from place to place. I've never lived in a town centre but I can imagine it's annoying if you have echoey streets where the houses have no front gardens to provide a buffer. If it's an issue locally then it should be dealt with, it's probably just a few nobheads