To be a ****? Or, more specifically, a knob with a 2001 Rover 25 with a bean can exhaust which you insist on driving recklessly (but not faster than 30mph) through a quiet and twisty residential street until the early hours? At which point you park up outside your house with the car straddling the pavement, blocking the (narrow) road unless cars wishing to get past kerb their wheels on the opposite side.
It is, irritatingly, both taxed and insured. Do I start with the passive-aggressive notes or move straight on to expanding-foam-in-the-exhaust trick?
I'm grumpy 'cos I got about 3 hours sleep last night.
Noise after 'reasonable' time? ( i think there is a legal cut off for that time but can't remember it)
If so you can report it, but not sure how much success you'd have.
If the driving really is reckless then report it to the police while it's happening... with a 'There's this nutjob weaving all over the road, I think he must be drunk...' flair for the dramatic, should soon sort him out.
Stealtilly fit a quiet exhaust and tell them you saw a delivery driver knock his wing mirrors off.
Report his driving.
You say he's driving recklessly through residential streets but not exceeding 30 mph so he could still be spoken to by the police for driving too fast for the conditions.
The council may be the next stop for the noise pollution, either that or let the police get vosa out to mot his car.........
Report it. Exhaust may well be illegal or not reported as a 'mod' to insurance company therefore no insurance.
Problem solved.
Measure the exhaust, find potato to fit.
Valve caps, deflate,superglue x4
You say he's driving recklessly through residential streets but not exceeding 30 mph so he could still be spoken to by the police for driving too fast for the conditions.
This.
The speed limit is not the speed its legal to drive at. It's the speed you cannot exceed.
what you wouldn't want to do is get the bonnet open and liberate his HT leads.
I reckon the exhaust is what you should run with. Council and/or police for noise nuisance.
Not that I'm a fan of using legislation for purposes other than originally intended, but it sounds like he could be warned under Section 59 of the Police Reform Act 2002.
A second warning within 12 months would see his car seized.
£120-150 to get his car back, plus £20 per day storage.
Not a conviction, no right of appeal.
It would be unfortunate if strategically positioned nails were found under all four wheels....
It's a rover ignore it and its blow up soon enough.
What is reckless about his driving ?
Could he be driving under the influence ? If so, a call to plod will see them finding and stopping him for a chat.
Inset as much as possible into exhaust:
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Aso, remove valve cores, wait for tyres to deflate, then replace.
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From DfT website: since 1996, in line with Euro regs, max volume of a car exhaust is to be not more than 74 dB, +1 dB for direct injection diesel, +1 dB for off-road vehicles (can be cumulative, so up to 76 dB max if an off-roader with a DI diesel engine...); it is illegal to modify a car exhaust system so that it is louder than the volume recorded for that type on approval.
Legally, there is no specific cut off time, it is simply defined as "reasonable". So what may be defined as reasonable during daylight/working hours may not be considered reasonable at night, eg. loud exhausts during the day may not be considered "unreasonable" as the noise will be mitigated by other background noise such as other road traffic, factories, whatever, whereas at night disturbing local residents' sleep with the same exhaust may be considered unreasonable as there is no other mitigating background noise, making the single source much more of a nuisance.
if he is blocking the road a call to police saying you are concerned about ambulance and fire engine access is the way to go
"Just key it"
Guilty.
But it was because of excessive noise and them constantly parking infront of my granparents gate, who have no parking signs and disability markings on the floor..
They don't park there anymore.
However I have also owned a Rover 25 with a "beancan" exhaust, also a 2001 co-incidentally.
But mine was always driven quietly around homes.. (Varex thingy with adjustable valve).
I miss that car.. It looked crap but it wasn't close too stock, would take most things if I wanted it too.. Plus it was a 3 bike carrier!
Not sure how he can be straddling the pavement and blocking the road but I'm sure both are illegal.