Noise pollution

[Drago]

Why do people buy those Hardly Davison bikes and put stupid noisy exhausts on them?

Why has the young lad up the road fitted noisy exhaust to the Corsa he recently inherited from his Gran?

Do these fools really think their machines sound better? Do they honestly believe passers by will be impressed? What the Hell is wrong with a bit of peace and quiet?

 

[JtB]

Smooth quiet vehicles have always been more impressive in my book.

 

[JoshM]

I live close to a lad who drives a supped up Impreza with throaty, boy racer exhaust. He insists on leaving for work at 0800 which annoyingly for me is bed time if I'm nightshift and often arrives home after midnight, waking me up if I'm on a day shift.

I understand everyone's hobbies are different, and we need to tolerant when living so closely, and I'd never actually do anything about it (I'm sure there are things about me that annoy him too), but it does make me curse his name.

 

[vernon]

If the exhaust systems meet MOT standards then there's bugger all that you can do. It's the noisy kilowatt sound systems that some car owners insist on sharing with the neighbouring square mile that I object to. Do they have to turn them up to compensate for their deteriorating hearing?

 

[TissoT]

I can see the benefits of a noisy motorbike... to get you noticed around car drivers.
As for a car noise I am lost.

 

[Drago]

I never could see the point of remapping. If you want a more powerful or economical car why not just buy a more powerful or economical car?

 

[steve50]

We have a couple of young lads round the corner from us who have fitted drainpipes to their cars, they make the cars sound really loud and invariably we can hear them before we see them , apparently it adds 100's of brake horse power to their cars and they have the "fastest 1ltr corsas in 'fax". We tend to make allowances as they are "speshel boys" and we make sure they have a good supply of colouring books and crayons of their own so they can draw pictures of their uber fast corsas.

 

[gbb]

Playing devils advocate...
I remember being 40 odd, sitting in a carpark and watching some young lads horsing about in their car, being planks.
Then I sat there and thought....yeah, I used to do that

Its being alive, young, stupid, whatever you want to call it, turn it on, turn it up and fcuk everything....well that's a bit far, but you get the gist.

 

[vernon]

I never could see the point of remapping. If you want a more powerful or economical car why not just buy a more powerful or economical car?

They are a bit like Q ships from WWII. Punch above their otherwise mundane looking weight with the aim of surprising other un re-mapped models of the same car. L plated RD250LC owners used to fit 350 engines to their bikes. I suppose it is the illusory gain through oneupmanship and beating the system mentality that drives them. I bet a lot of remapped cars don't declare the remapping to their insurers either.

 

[steve50]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jks9ZF-YS0I

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if you're going to do it , do it right............................Lada

 

[Vapin' Joe]

They are a bit like Q ships from WWII. Punch above their otherwise mundane looking weight with the aim of surprising other un re-mapped models of the same car. L plated RD250LC owners used to fit 350 engines to their bikes. I suppose it is the illusory gain through oneupmanship and beating the system mentality that drives them. I bet a lot of remapped cars don't declare the remapping to their insurers either.

One I knew with an RD350LC had the side panels from a 250 fitted instead. He got nicked when a bike aware traffic cop knew that the bigger model had twin front discs and the 250 didn't.

 

[Jody]

Do these fools really think their machines sound better? Do they honestly believe passers by will be impressed? What the Hell is wrong with a bit of peace and quiet?

^ Yes, no and nothing.

I don't see an issue with it personally. Some cars sound lovely with aftermarket pipes on but others sound horrific. Its personal taste.

These days its all about having a sleeper. The more stealth the better.

 

[PhilDawson8270]

I never could see the point of remapping. If you want a more powerful or economical car why not just buy a more powerful or economical car?

Same as those people who upgrade their bike, instead of just buying a new one.

I understand (as I did), the enjoyment of doing it yourself. I however, don't understand the point of paying somebody else to do it.

 

[Drago]

See, when I was 17 I wanted to go fast, but being poor didn't help. Instead of buying a 1 litre Chevette and wasting time and money tuning it I bought a much faster Allegro 1750HL.

And then wasted time and money filling holes with fibreglass.

I can see a different slant with bikes. When your derailleur wears out then why not replace it with a 105? When your rims a are bacofoil thin and half the spokes are gone then why not fit dome halfway decent ones? It's both an evolutionary process, as well as a maintenance one.

With cars it's a little different. Your gearbox isn't likely to wear out, but if it does there's little option bit to fit another of the same type. Your wheels aren't likely to wear out either. The "upgrading" process in cars has a completely different motivation, and with more powerful cars already freely available and already fitted with bigger brakes and sportier suspension it seems pointless to buy a slow car and immediately set about trying to make it quicker. If your winter jacket wasn't warm enough you'd by another. If your ladder isn't long enough you'd buy another. So why do people feel inclined to fanny about remapping cars instead of simply buying a more suitable one to begin with? And when even the slowest cars can better the motorway speed limit by 30mph it all seems very futile.

 

[perplexed]

I used to put a piece of chip shop polystyrene tray in my rear spokes to make my bike sound cool...

Mind you, I bet Ronnie Pickering used to do the same.