Since the last 24 hours have had nothing but troll posts (and one that a user deleted; dunno what that one was), here’s my latest gripe / reason I’m tired shaped into the form of an Unpopular Opinion. Hopefully this gets us back on track.
Nobody is impressed by you revving your engine at a stop light and cranking out 300 dB of noise from your fart cannon at 3 in the morning (or any time of day, for that matter). There is also no reason to peel out from the stop light when the next light is 2 blocks away and guaranteed to be red. e.g. We left the first red light at the same time. I drove normally, you like an asshole, and we both stopped at the next light all the same.
Driving an (intentionally) obnoxiously loud vehicle, especially driving it aggressively, should result in immediate revocation of license and the offending vehicle crushed into a cube. As much as I hate vague “disturbing the peace” laws, this seems like a good use for them (where noise ordinances don’t exist).
I don’t care about the extra 1-2 HP you get. Do tell me all the (street legal) things your pavement princess of a truck is going to do with that (I can see it has neither the tow package nor a speck of dirt on the tires). If you just like the sound and think I should get over it, allow me to come fart near you. If you don’t like the smell, by your logic, that’s on you: get over it.
Note: It may be a regional thing, but this is definitely an unpopular opinion in my (very redneck) area.
Addendum: Rolling Coal should be an immediate bitch slap and some jail time being force fed Vegan meals while blasted with Enya.
And let’s not forget headlights at night. If you can blind someone your lights should be illegal, even worse if you need your truck to overcompensate and keep them at eye level.
Enya.
Settle down, Satan.
Don’t threaten me with a good time!
Harsh but fair!
Rolling coal should be punished with an emissions check, and then the vehicle should be limited to some tiny exhaust so their huge truck makes a little “fweeeeee” sound when driving, and it will restrict airflow and sap engine output.
I live just off a road that has illegal street racers 3-5 times a week from 11 pm to 2 am. Hard agree.
You must live south of Seattle because this is my exact experience lol.
Indeed I do!
Haha I figured, not to dox myself but I’m in spanaway. These crazy bastards have the loudest cars around here. Between JBLM and pac avenue I’m surprised I get any sleep lol
That shit really needs heavier penalties
Or any enforcement whatsoever. It happens so regularly all they would have to do is, like, try. Show up on a Friday at midnight and they’d get a guaranteed ticket if not arrest.
They put in some roundabouts to try to stop it but the street racers just keep destroying the center island. It’s brand new and covered with tire marks and plastic debris from them bashing up their kits.
In my country the police actually has task forces dealing with those idiots. And the good part is: They know all the tricks. One of the groups was on TV as they were “visiting” a car tuning “festival”. Took a lot of fun out of the tuners…
Box of nails and screws might help.
That takes out innocent drivers as well.
I would also accept rough sphere and pancake as shapes the car could be crushed into.
Of course – fully agreed that something has to be done. Civilized countries, like Netherlands have “sound traps” – if a vehicle is too loud, photo is taken as in speed photo traps, and penalty is sent to the owner. Sadly, I do not live in such a country.
Crushing a vehicle because it’s loud is stupid and waste of resources. In a civilized country it would simply fail inspection and you’d have to make it not-loud in order to get it registered again.
Modded motorcycles are super common around my region (Brazilian midwest), despite said “EXTRA LOUD” mod being illegal and the bikes being in impounded if they’re caught.
Another thing that is even worse are sound cars (shit like in the image below). No idea how often they’re a problem in other countries, but here, it’s always fucking idiots parading their window-shaking bass in the middle of the night, or creating “parties” in front of liquor stores or friends’ houses during the fucking week. These, unlike those bike mods, are not illegal.
Damn, I have never seen a car like the one you shared a picture of before. That’s wacky!
Subwoofers in cars were really popular in California in the 90’s, but I rarely see them any more.
The crusher will take care of the speakers, too.
A pen could take care if that monstrosity.
A handful of gravel tossed in its direction while it’s running would do the trick. Or some mixed screws and metal shavings. Let the cones shred themselves.
Seems like the kind of thing that could get solved with some light arson.
Not that I would advocate for those things. Just noticing there could be a lot fewer loud vehicles and shitty towing companies if people were more liberal with their use of cocktails.
Jesus, that thing is hideous and can’t possibly sound good. It probably can’t even deliver enough power to properly drive all that to begin with.
Just hope that rotary subwoofers don’t become a commercial product.
IMO behavior like this is a symptom of a larger problem.
Oh, it definitely is IMO as well. At this point, I’d settle for just treating the symptoms. lol
We left the first red light at the same time. I drove normally, you like an asshole, and we both stopped at the next light all the same.
Ah, but only one of you had any fun.
Your opinion is pretty popular. The unpopular opinion is thinking it’s cool to be loud and drive aggressively.
People who drive aggressively don’t do it to be cool unless they are teenagers
I meant cool like “okay”. Like, “are you cool with this?”.
I have a car with an aftermarket exhaust and intake. When I test drove it I had the windows down and made sure it wasn’t loud. And it isn’t, as long as I don’t open the throttle up a lot and keep it under 3,500 rpm. My parents were concerned about it until I fired it up and my dad said “Oh, it just sounds like my old MG.”
So you don’t need to have noise to get a horsepower increase. You just need to do it correctly and think about someone other than yourself.
So you don’t need to have noise to get a horsepower increase. You just need to do it correctly and think about someone other than yourself.
Yep. But that’s not what I see, or rather, hear in the wild. Especially the thinking about others part. lol
I don’t hate the sound of a good engine, but I’ve never heard an aftermarket kit that sounds good to me. It’s like…the car is either built with it or it isn’t.
I thought the same thing until I drove my car and then I realized what a difference it can make. This is what I have on my car along with the matching intake and I can confirm it sounds really nice. But, again, it’s designed for better performance and not just more noise.
Plus I know that it’s going to be louder, so I anticipate that and try to drive more quietly. Because I’m not a selfish asshole.
You’re one of the good ones. lol. You could teach the folks in my area…lots.
And yeah, either they want the noise or think noise == power.
Plus, most people don’t do the intake and just slap a cheap aftermarket kit on the back. So the exhaust can go out quicker, but it isn’t taking in any more air, and just makes it sound terrible.
I hate to tell you this, but anything on a little car makes it sound like a lawnmower. There’s nothing throaty about it. But it makes me laugh, so I guess it has that going for it, which is nice.
I think California actually has vehicle noise laws for this lol.
tbh the obnoxiously loud cars are people who hacked off their muffler. Even the decats and pop+bang tunes aren’t as loud as an uninterrupted stream of sound from the engine.
They do, but there is precisely zero enforcement.
There is enforcement. But it’s rare. I had a leak in my exhaust and was pulled over and ticketed for it. Replaced the part. Then you go to a special smog that tests the sound level.
I like cars and bikes, so I don’t mind some extra noise, but there’s definitely a limit. I’d also say that in any crowded area like a big city neighborhood I’d rather not see any cars, but if they have to be there they should be as quiet as possible.
I used to think loud trucks were cool, and then I turned 8.
Just take their license. People being obnoxious is annoying but no need to waste the car
Fair enough, but where’s the fun in that? The vehicle needs to be at least restored to “factory defaults” at the owner’s expense.
Yes, this
plz reduce, reuse, and recycle
I get that you like revenge, but that’s just wasteful. If you really want revenge, make them also pay for making it street legal again. Or heck, impound the car and auction it
Then someone else can be an obnoxious jerk with it. At least make them pay to restore it to factory and then auction it off.
Another obnoxious jerk to pay the fine, more cash for road maintainance and such
Motorcycles, dirt bikes, four wheeler shitheads ride downtown (where I live) in my city every weekend. They takeover intersections and rev their engines. We call them “cool guys,” because I joked to my partner that they aren’t overcompensating for anything; they’re obviously super cool, with big dicks, and happy lives.
