Addendum: Rolling Coal should be an immediate bitch slap and some jail time being force fed Vegan meals while blasted with Enya.
this post was submitted on 26 Mar 2024
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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!
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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
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I hate them, too.
And the ones that sound like an asthmatic box fan about to die are just hilarious. Heard a mustang like that today.
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.
No problems with that. Just don't forget to put the drivers license into the trash compactor, too.
Agree. I can only hope it gets less common as electric vehicles become more common. Although, I could also see them adding aftermarket noisemakers just to be obnoxious.
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God I hate the stupid loud vehicles. And it almost always sounds like shit too.
Be funny if coal rollers had to strap a giant diaper to the back of their vehicle to identify them, since clearly their lifted douche-wagon struggles with incontinence.
I like aftermarket stereo equipment in a car (mostly just like the feel of bass going through me and sound quality improvements), myself, but I'm not an asshole about it, I just blast music on interstates, and keep it to conversational levels on normal roads. If you can hear it outside the car it's generally too loud anyway.
"You have 24 hours to move your car before it will be impounded.
"You have 24 hours to remove your car from impound before it will be crushed into a cube."
"You have 24 hours to move your cube."
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110% this.
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