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Valve core remover and a quiet walk home one night with 4 valve cores in the nearest bin.
Like this sort of thing? 🤔🤢
Quite a few around here (Daventry)
I learned to drive in Daventry, true story.
All I remember are roundabouts.
One of our local wallpapers has a massive sticker all over the back of rear window...
"Clippin' ditches, bangin' bitches"
Predictably weasely 30 something with a teenage girl in the passenger seat.
In my day what set them apart was their cars being a bit shit, nova, saxo etc.
But now they all drive things with AMG and M on them?
Valve core remover and a quiet walk home one night with 4 valve cores in the nearest bin.
Top tip, thanks.
yep, coupel of new drivers around here in 80's volvo saloons with no muffler/silencers. Better than crackle maps though
I cant believe the nerve of some people.. not like I was driving around in my late teens in a Westfield annoying my neighbors ;0 Just didn't realise how anti social it was until being on the receiving end and no longer the owner of a loud car.
The bigger issue here are the big 7L diesel pickups giving it the beans in the residential streets spooling up their twin turbos and laying down rubber and soot.
Jesus granddad's, what the **** is there to do as a kid?
No drinks (no drink driving is good), no places to
Go just generally **** all to do if you arn't a sad sack piss head.
My dad had a mini with a Porsche crash box, 1275 rebored but got to 50 yo and thought the same as you lot. Whinge, whinge, whinge.
The Doppler effect is a wonderful thing and going the way of the dodo. Would you rather them giving out shit on a street corner?
A lovely of engineering is a wonderful thing.
Not as bad as the people who think their diesel producing massive clouds of black smoke is cool. Honestly.
The worst thing is 7 litre diesel trucks with all the emissions filters removed from the exhaust pipes. the owners invariably have the need to warm them up at 5am.
then there are the straight pipes Harley Davidsons.
the odd thing about these vehicles is that they are driven my fully fledged adults, not boy racers.
Boy racers couldn’t afford a $75k Ford F150, or a big Harley. It might be a good idea to not piss off the Harley rider though, especially if they’re wearing colours, it may not end well…
’Rolling coal’ is deliberately designed to piss off EV drivers and cyclists, by being as offensive as possible.
The irony of noisy exhausts and crackle maps, you’d likely get flagged or not let on a track day.
+1 for using a valve core remover.
High powered laser pointer.
might be a good idea to not piss off the Harley rider thoug
I had the misfortune of being in Saalbach Hinterglem one year when the annual biker meet was on.
Full of loud and flashy Harleys being ridden by (mostly) overweight lawyers and dentists.
Again, get your missus to wave their pinkie at them.
It might be a good idea to not piss off the Harley rider though, especially if they’re wearing colours
apparently drives down local crime rate if you've a neighbor who wears a patch.
A scaffolds plank with a lot of 3 inch long nails banged all the way through it and deposited in the roadway in front of the c@#£s seems reasonable to me.
Or, if you have a large dog, empty out one of their worst dumps from a poo bag onto the lap of the knobjockey in the front seat when they're stopped. Make sure some goes on the steering wheel and/or gearstick 👍
Yes back in the day turning the ignition off then on again could give you a nice cracker and pop as one drove past girls at the bus stop but if you got it wrong may result in needing a new exhaust as it could blow up
I had a Janspeed exhaust on my Mk1 Mexico back in 1979 sounded fantastic with a creamy white tailpipe as none of your cash converters in the exhaust
Much better with induction noise like my old school z4 3.0i BMW with the foam removed
. It might be a good idea to not piss off the Harley rider though
Yeah, it’d be horrible to get declined for your next mortgage. Think of the shame!
I live in a village a decent way out of town, so no estate really, but we have one family that likes its large, badly tuned US V8s and another that seems to favour poorly maintained, but revvy BMWs. At one point they had a project Volvo 740 turbo, that was fun. At least the guy that restores classic US cars does a good job of it.
Sweden does have a sub-culture that likes shitty, poorly tuned and maintains American cars. I've come through a town on my bike when they and the local bikers have been cruising and it was a nightmare of loud vehicles. The police were loving it.
If it's local and you know the details, call the police. Illegally noisy exhausts are just that, illegal. Our local knobber with bean-can pipe stopped after pretty much half the population complained about him. I don't know the details, but it stopped pretty promptly.
With youngsters it seems to be a passing epidemic thing that passes after a year or two, presumably when they settle down, get married, buy/lease a nice SUV etc. With older men - and predictably it's mostly men - it's a mark of advanced 'look at me' egotism.
It's annoying, but it's always been thus with young drivers/motorcyclists. As an ex-biker, who used to roadtest for a motorcycle magazine, I could appreciate the allure of a nice exhaust tone - an RC30 on a race pipe on a track was amazing, I like aural... - but there was a limit where it was frankly embarrassing and a hazard to your licence.
I had a stupid test pipe on a long-term ZXR for a matter of weeks and was done for 35mph in a newly-introduced 30 because 'we heard you coming'. Really I think it was more about the exhaust than the speed. Ideally what you need is something thats a quiet burble at low revs and somewhat louder when you open it up and a motor that actually sounds nice, a VR6 rather than an inline four. Anyway, all in the distant past for me.
But yes, every town has one or more.
I like cars and all, but balling about / making progress / pinning it / drifting / <insert race care fantasy driving here> out on the public roads is moronic.
I can't get that excited about folk spending their money on car bling - there are plenty of antisocial behaviours that are far, far worse than a baked bean tin exhaust. Clearly opinions vary here.
Yes, about 300 of the fu** pr*.
There's a park and ride about ~500m from our house which gets used most weekends for "car meets". It's like the council built it specifically for them, roundabouts, ample parking, a set of 3-lane dual carriageways with lights every half mile for drag racing. It's a bl**** nightmare,
There's 5 on our street:
A Fiat Punto, it's a Punto, why are you drawing attention to the fact you drive a Punto?
A Skyline
A CB125 (same comment as per the Punto)
A bright yellow BMW 135/140 (or a 116 with a bodykit and a fart canon).
Tuareg/Touran/something V6
A Maserati SUV
The last three may well be stock, but they're just obnoxious and driven by cu**s.
After about 5 years of complaining to the council about the car meets they finally put PSPO's on the park and ride and one of the town center car parks when they started meeting there as well and so it affected people living in the town itself.
The police though do f*** all though even if they show up. There's ANPR in the car park but they will only issue the PSPO fine to the person doing the burnout/drag race/donuts/most obnoxious exhaust. £60 to one person won't put them off, they wouldn't do it if 300 people watching them got the £60 fine.
The closest it's got to actual enforcement is the police put a sped trap on the DC and issued more than 300 NIP's in just over an hour 😂
On a posh estate here so the main anti social driving comes from ugly 23 plate Audi SUV's going too fast. There's a scrotey estate half a mile away that pukes up the odd biker with very loud pipe, one goes past the house at 6am. I would complain but it saved my bacon the other week when I fell asleep after the alarm went off
There’s a park and ride about ~500m from our house which gets used most weekends
Back when I lived on the wrong side of town we had a similar problem at the local retail park. Sunday evenings they'd come out in force, up and down our road. The drivers were almost all non-local, they'd head to our town from the surrounding 20 - 30 miles.
Council put steel barriers up guarding the car park, locked on Sunday evening. It worked.
Sometimes the stupidity does amaze. We had one on the street, enough folks complained about it and a rozzer came around one evening to have a word, turns out he runs a hot house...Next thing you know, there's a stack of police transits and patrol cars carrying out endless plants, and a couple of dudes in plasti-cuffs
I was chatting to his neighbours about it a few weeks back, and she told me that when they spoke to him about the fact that his exhaust sounds like an Group-B Audi, this idiot said that he liked the attention it brings him...Yeah so much attention that you're now going to prison...Slow handclap
We live on a main road so get quite a few. They usually fall into two camps.
There's the 1 litre Fiesta/Corsa gang with the cheapest aftermarket exhaust available that sounds like a fart through a straw. Usually completely standard with the addition of some local facebook "car club" stickers on the boot.
Then you have the RS3/Golf R guys, and it's inevitably always these two specific cars, they have a pop & bang map so they can DSG trombone up and down the road and scare the local wildlife/grannies. If it's an RS3 it will be Nardo Grey, if it's a Golf it will have had the wheels painted gold.
Everyone else seemingly drives an SUV of varying sizes. As it's Sunderland Jukes and Qashqais are the go to option.
Back when I lived on the wrong side of town we had a similar problem at the local retail park
The annoying thing is, we live in one of the "nice" bits 😂
Can't really call it a village anymore, it's a suburb, but it's still nice. Trouble it it's desirable because of the "transport links" i.e. it's a stones throw from M4-J11 so you can be in Swindon / London / Oxford / Guildford / Southampton all in under an hour. Which means car's are king. The 'high street' has 1 recently re-opened after shutting for 3 years pub. 1 huge kwick-fit style garage, 1 small indy garage, a petrol station, a corner shop, a florist and an accountant.
So you can get everything your car needs, your consultant ltd co accounts done and flowers for the wife to apologies for working late again.
Yeah, the usual bangs n'pops brigade... but that's not the real menace on the road. It's the ranger rover over-entitled brigade who close pass/ drive at you, generally threatening driving. But the single most likely car to come barrelling past at over a ton somewhere inappropriate is a Golf R. Surprised there aren't more of these in ditches around here.
Bikers - no compliants. There is a local with a Harley though that seems to need 20mins of idling to warm up at 8am every Sunday, but I'm not bothered by that. He's just an old bloke with a hobby.
we have the midnight quad bikes ragging it round our nearby field and up and down the canal towpath, but it seems they have got a little quieter up and down there, or wiser as they were often met at one end of he path by the police on their offroad bikes.
There’s a lad on a trials bike who can’t keep his right wrist still, he’ll sit at the junction revving away sounding like angry frog made of wasps.
I think we have the grown up equivalents next to us. The (quite posh) estate next to us from spring to autumn is all petrol strimmers being revved and revved. No idea why they have petrol strimmers, the gardens are small enough to run extensions if they wany moar power.
Jesus granddad’s, what the * is there to do as a kid?
No drinks (no drink driving is good), no places to
Go just generally * all to do if you arn’t a sad sack piss head.My dad had a mini with a Porsche crash box, 1275 rebored but got to 50 yo and thought the same as you lot. Whinge, whinge, whinge.
The Doppler effect is a wonderful thing and going the way of the dodo. Would you rather them giving out shit on a street corner?
A lovely of engineering is a wonderful thing.
This is an AI response surely?
I don't think we have to worry about the robot uprising just yet.
I live on a dead end road where the most offensive car is a white Lexus that's so long and wide that the owner never has any space to park it outside his house so it ends up all over the shop. Maybe he'd have more space if he ditched the matching, massive white Lexus SUV.
Anyway, when I was in London I was in a third floor flat overlooking a quiet (as in low traffic) one way road and every so often some utter weapon would boot it up there at 3am waking me up. Most irritating though was the person who felt the need to warm up their motorbike on the pavement outside our windows for about half an hour every morning. Oh and minicab drivers who'd park outside in the middle of the night but leave their diesel engines idling.
Jesus granddad’s, what the **** is there to do as a kid?
Pretty much everything?
Seriously? Educate us "Granddads" on what the point of spending ££££'s on a modifying a 20 year old Fiesta? They could quit their jobs and spend 6 months backpacking through SE Asia for what it costs to fit a bodykit and insure a car at 17. I really don't get it.
A lovely of engineering is a wonderful thing.
It's a £50 popcorn re-map, not the Forth Bridge.
Even something "built" is usually just a production car they've they've taken the checkbook to deamon-tweeks for. I've never seen anything that was actually "built" by the owner.
I live on a main, straight road between 2 round abouts. between Huddersfield and Bradford,
I would ban pops and bang maps over night if i could. Bearing in mind i drive a V8 audi with a sports exhaust you may think im being hypocritical but theres a world of difference between a straight through pipe and the 15 or so bangs they have these days.
Normal city centre victorian terraced road here, lots of dented city cars and Transporters. Bloke up the road drives a brand new Ferrari which is so wide it sticks out a foot wider than anything else so waiting for it to be dinged. But worst of all is when he parks outside and starts it at 6am and it has this revving thing. The absolute tosspot.
I would ban pops and bang maps over night if i could. Bearing in mind i drive a V8 audi with a sports exhaust you may think im being hypocritical but theres a world of difference between a straight through pipe and the 15 or so bangs they have these days.
This is a bit like the Ronnies middle classes sketch.
We're looking down on you, but that's OK because you've got someone to look down on too.
I own what many would consider to be a 'loud' car - a Hyundai i30N. Its not the fastest or flashiest car out there but I think its a pretty good balance of performance and value. It is completely stock as it came out of the dealership and pops and bangs when it is in the relevant sport/custom mode.
However, it also has a 'normal' and 'eco' mode which turns the exhaust sound right down (amongst other things).
As a car lover / petrol head / whatever you want to call me, I absolutely believe that these modes should be used when just bimbling round town etc. It really annoys me when people accelerate harshly, drive aggressively, break speed limits and are just a general nuisance in their cars around town or on the public roads. There is a time and place for driving like that and it is called a track day (notwithstanding the fact that many of the exhaust mods that you see would not pass a track day db check). Unfortunately though, it is people like this who will spoil it for the rest of us and result in clamp downs on 'performance' cars. I do chuckle and also boil in fury at others' driving when I am nicely sat at 19/20mph in a 20mph limit and have a line of cars catch me up (can nobody stick to the speed limit nowadays?) as it perhaps isn't the typical way of driving me car.
What I do not find acceptable though is what happens with my neighbours. I go into the office once maybe twice per week at 7am and in the winter need to defrost the car. I sit there (as above in eco/normal mode so it is no louder than your average car) whilst the car is defrosting and without fail they come outside to have a go at me for sitting with the engine on, as if it pleasures me to get up 5/10 minutes earlier on a cold winters morning. I think it is a stigma that probably comes from the abovementioned acts by the cretins of the road. (Last laugh is on me though as all of the mud from bike washing now washes into and clogs up their drains...)
A few near me have a kids soft toy tied on the bumper. I googled it out of curiousity and it seems to be a "drift charm". But they are usually on the the back a front wheel drive Fiesta / Corsa. Maybe they are for the handbrake turns?
I live in rural North Norfolk, i'd love to have a V8 Audi sound of a sunday morning, instead we get retired farmers on 1950's antique tractors who start them up and leave them chugging away early sunday morning to "warm up" before going off to some show or ploughing match....
A guy on my road owns a Lamborghini, and it doesn't even have a cab..
accidentally step the back end out on his Ford Mustang going through some traffic lights.
How we gasped in awe as he slid into a kerb and cracked his alloy wheel off.
I had one of those forever ago. Waiting at the lights at a two lane T-junction, I'm in the right-only lane in a 1977 Fiesta, chap off to my left in the 'right or left' lane in a sporty-looking 3-Series. The lights changed, I set off at a lick (because rust doesn't weigh much), our hero takes umbrage at being dropped by a student in a 1.1L shitbox and boots it. With wholly predictable results from what happens when you stand on the loud pedal in a powerful rear wheel drive car whilst halfway through a 90' turn.
There is a local with a Harley though that seems to need 20mins of idling to warm up at 8am every Sunday, but I’m not bothered by that. He’s just an old bloke with a hobby.
Polishing?
I like the comments about the middle aged AMG owners…..I had an AMG Merc (GLC). Didn’t pop and bang but did rumble if that makes sense. I would never sit and rev it on the drive though. Also had a TVR (5 litre engined beast), that properly made a great grumbling sound without revving. I got shouted out once by a horse lady, I came to a complete stop to let the horse pass, the lady still shouted at me for my engine making the horse nervous. I probably should have turned the engine off but didn’t think, so my bad.
Brother has a Harley, no idea the type, but blooming heck that’s noisy. He doesn’t do early starts so his neighbours are safe! Really slow bike as well so no idea why it’s so noisy.
I currently have a Cupra, makes a nice noise but doesn’t pop and bang. It’s only a 2 litre, so pulling away from the house it’s fairly quiet. I also had a Mini Cooper S that did pop and bang….that wasn’t intentional…damn piece of junk was a nightmare!
I’ve had a few other noisy cars. But I wouldn’t be going out early or driving like a loon. Neighbour has a very noisy car and she does go out early at weekends. It’s some new Porsche Cayman thing, makes a nice noise and makes me smile when I hear it. (She’s also close to middle aged if that makes any difference….i’ll have to tell her she should just be driving a sensible car)
Neighbour has had a series of performance cars M5 and some track cars M5 and current merc v8 make a lot of noise on start up as single drive between houses shakes worse still is his wife’s Kia ev emits some weird Star Trek phaser noise to set off and our bedroom window is usually open that won’t change cos I won that argument with mrs g both sleep better with it open🎉 but to OP yes each estate must have at least one
Ours is the King of the local hells angels equivelent. Lots of revving bikes up and down the road of a weekend and evening.
My daughter is also in a gang where they wear matching vests and sew patches on showing their gang affiliation and achivements, but its called Brownies.
