Got back home the other night and must have driven up my road a little faster than usual as a neighbour appeared once I'd parked up to "ask if I can drive slower". She said that her children are in bed and my car really does make a roar (that'll be the Magnex back-box then )

I did apologise and will try to adopt a more stealthy mode when it's after hours (10:10pm). She did say it was a lovely car though!

Anyone else had problems with the noise they make...?

Paul

 

I got told off my a manager at my company.. Apparently i drove into the car park too quick and she told me to get my exhaust fixed!!

Also my dad kicked my **** for letting in tick over on the drive.. Came aout saying 'the pictues on the walls where shaking'..

Pete

 

Yeh I have a problem. [img]images/smilies/mad.gif[/img]

salsa-king woke me up on Saturday night.

Never had any complaints about the Scoob and I leave for work at 4.30am. I did have a complaint about the Sierra 4x4 V6 I had around 10 years ago with full stainless Scorpion system and decatted manifolds. Those nieghbours have since moved. LOL

Lee

 

PPP= Poor Petrified Pensioners

 

My neighbours once comoplained about the citroen visa with a peco 4 big bore!!

What a motor,

Pete

[Edited by Ellis4779 - 11/28/2001 3:01:30 PM]

 

I have a scoobysport system and it is loud but none of my neighbours complane.
There are a lot of nova boys that drive around here with very loud exhausts and with there windows open the play total crap music at high volume.
If you cant beat them join them.

JIM

 

I've had complaints from just about everyone about my HKS Hiper.

One old duffer came out of his house when I left it idling outside the girlfriend's for 2 minutes to cool down at 7.30PM in June!!! He said it sounded like an old Morris Diesel (like they had 260 brake, you nonce!)[img]images/smilies/mad.gif[/img]

Heard someone shout "Thank F*ck for that!" out of their window after a similar cooling down run

I've had pensioners waving fists from bus stops and allsorts. Not to mention countless Volvo estate (and the like) Beardies shaking their heads in disapproval.

And the best one was a kid about 14 who said "you tried to run me over then" after he did the old "I'm so hard I can walk across the road at a snail's pace and all the traffic will stop trick". (I'd blipped the throttle at him and scared him into embarassingly leaping for the kerb). To which I replied " if I'd been trying you'd be in my wheelarch now mate"

 

I feel really sorry for my neighbours. Sometimes i come home at rediculous hours and let my car idle in the garage for a few mins. It must drive them mad, but they havent said anything to me as of yet.

 

Imagine what it must be like to live next to a bellowing TVR!

The pensioners et al who wave fists at busstops confuse noise with speed I think, and assume you are speeding irresponsibly.

 

My old grale evo's 3 inch exhaust used to rattle the windows in the house as I drove off. No aggro from the neighbours though.

 

Bin laden be careful that you dont give away your position. After all there is an international manhunt on for you. :-)

Scrappy

 

think the only compliant I had was from one of suzy's old neighbours, they said i revved the car to hard, which I did not, suzy explained that it was just a loud car, did not hear anything more about it, and it's not exactly the quietest of systems.

 

Got a wee train tunnel near our house, so of course most times we drive through it the windows go down a bit and we give it a bit of a blatt One evening an OAP was walking through the tunnel at the same time we were driving through - he ended up covering his ears and then shaking his walking stick at us

Haven't had any neighbours complain...yet.

[Edited by KimA - 11/28/2001 5:13:46 PM]

 

So you lot still have neighbours ? Mine all moved, dunno why.

 

No problems with the Scoob, but plenty of comments when I ran my my 1964 Triumph bike, (straight through pipes),in the garage for 15 minutes at 8 o'clock one Sunday morning.

Can't understand why, I had been up a long time by then!

 

no complaints about noise yet, get the old, is your exhuast blowing off mi mum though. It is only a Fiesta though

nextdoor complained that my car was ruining their tarmac? we have a comon drive/yard thing at the back of the house, it was tarmaced about five years ago by some pikey's, on a rainy day, in about 15 minutes, and it's my fault it's lifting I was that gobsmacked she had turned around, wandered off and had got in the house before I could think of a witty putdown

 

my neighbour used to keep reving his motorbike on his drive at night to try and impress the other neighbours (everyone hates him- miserable old git 50+), so when i had the scoob with straight through magnex no cats (inc d/pipe), i backed it into my garage at the side of him and revved until it was spitting flames, now my garage is a grimstone with a galvanised metal roof! now that was loud- shut him up quick enough

Rob

 

When I run a work collegue home after the graveyard shift, the car
wakes up her kids, and they're always waiting for her when she gets in!! It bugs the hell out of her, as she can't have a peaceful
*** & read of the paper
When the wife comes home from work, mid afternoon, it wakes me up,
so must do the same for my neighbours
I can vouch for Mr Wild's zorst, on the Lakes run we went under a flyover, and I what sounded like a clap of thunder, until the wife say's probably Rich flexing is right foot

CRAFT

 

I had one neighbour complain that I was driving to fast through the estate, never mind I was driving in cool down mode along the parked cars and speed bumps means that 20mph is too fast.

They had actually followed me around as they a distance away from me.

My real neighbours keep saying how much they like the noise!

I 'only' have the Prodive backbox and centre section after the PPP, so it is relatively quiet when compared to some of the other Scoobs around.

Don't think I will ever forget watching some pedestrain on a mobile ducking when Mark K blipped his throttle!

 

Now and again, when I used to start my TR7V8, it'd set off next doors car alarm.

On a blast down to Castle Coombe, I convoyed with a friend in a Jaguar C-type. Between the two of us we must have set off every car alarm in stationary vehicles from where I lived to the motorway!!

I've got a Scoobysport backbox only at the mo. Want a full-system, if only to annoy my neighbour where I live now. **** keeps parking in the access to my garage on our shared drive... [img]images/smilies/mad.gif[/img]

 

The lesson from this thread is clearly that shared drives are a one way ticket to trouble.

My parents got into a load of parking accross access stuff with their neighbours and it ended up with dad punching the guy: both were in there 50 s at the time, most unseemly. Parents moved to a better place simce.

 

Now the best thing I ever saw for setting of car alarms is a Tornado (fighter/bomber).

I was working at a BAe site and every so often a Tornado would come in low (as in zero feet) over the runway. We were in a portacabin about 500 yards away, between us was a car park.

Everytime, every car alarm went off. Great fun after everyone went out and turned them off was the plave coming back and doing it again!

So if you really want to annoy your neighbours get a Tornado!

 

LOL

Next motor... Tornado it is then.

H

 

joni,

Just you make sure you look after all those pensioners now, won't you?

Enough to choose from!

 

Not sure if I'd get a Tornado on the shared driveway...

**** 'em - I'll take one!

 

Harrier jump jet's the way to go... then you can just park it in the back garden if you have any complaints about the drive.

 

XRS,
I won't let you down......HAPPY BIRTHDAY

 

I had a TVR 350i for 5 years and when leaving for work at 6:00am used to wake up the neighbours, although they never complained! They must have liked the sound!!

It was great fun driving through tunnels as the sound echoed back off the ceilings.

The WRX is too quite for me, so it'll have to be PPP'd

 

My girlfriend says my car rattles the windows in the house - that's how she know's I'm home..

The neighbors at my last house didn't appreciate the fact that my car at idle would set off their car alarms.. Oops..

Basil

 

Do you happen to know what that guys pays for his insurance on the Tornado and where can I get a good import deal

Cammy