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Car noise has upset someone
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Of course it's not road legal, it's an mot fail, so VOSA may well be interested in to why it has a valid mot.
Whats not road legal? Exhaust noise is not part of an MOT. In fact, you technically dont even have to start a car up for it to pass an MOT. (obviously abs wont work without running engine, but brakes will still work).
I checked the MOT regulations and spoke to several MOT testers on this exact subject as one of my motorbikes has a full race exhaust system on it which is more than slightly loud.0 -
To answer any questions and assumptions as far as I can remember what's been posted:
- Yes we are approachable and no we're not chavs (just because you have a slightly louder car it does not make the driver chavvy!)
- We are friends with our direct neighbours and the old man who lives two doors down. The neighbours to our right talk to us if they have any problems (we had someone visiting once and left the dog in the house for an hour and she started barking, neighbour let us know so I apologised and gave her some flowers), neighbour to the left is a middle aged woman who teaches the handicapped part time and again we converse regularly, the old man 2 doors down on the left absolutely adores the mini. The neighbour 2 doors down on the right is an odd one - he sleeps all day, awake all night and has friends visiting in the early hours of the morning in loud sports cars pumping out loud music so I can't seem him complaining!
- We like to think of ourselves as considerate neighbours -when our first housemate was playing music at a level that I thought was too loud, I went to the neighbours to ask if it was annoying them and they both said they couldn't even hear it.
- The car is a 1974 morris mini 1000, yes the engine and exhaust are not original. The original engine (a 998 and exhaust were actually louder). I got it slightly wrong in my original post - it's a 1340 not a 1380 engine and has a stage 1 kit with 68bhp at the wheels.
- When I say the car is loud is not ridiculously loud - I'd say it's about the same noise as your average sports car, and slightly noiser than your 'everyday' cars like ford focus, nissan micra, volvo estate etc.
- The car is in perfect working condition and the exhaust is not blowing but this colder weather is making the car louder than it is in the summer.
- There isn't anywhere we can park it where it won't be close to someone's house.
- No he's not turning it on and faffing around for ages before driving off and he doesn't turn his music on.
- It's not everyday - as I said in my first post he works 2 shifts which alernate each week so he effectively goes to work early 5 days out of every 14.
- No it's not as loud as that mini in the clip posted, it's quieter and deeper than that.
I think that covers everything that was asked...
Tomorrow he's going to knock on the neighbours doors and try to find out who wrote the note, if anyone owns up to it then he's going to apologise and ask them what they feel would be a suitable solution.
It's a stainless steel twin DTM centre exit exhaust (I don't know what that means, I'm just writing what the boyfriend told me!)0 -
Even it's an eighty-eight year old woman, living on her own, who feels intimidated by young people with noisy cars?
That 88 year old has lived through a World War (and lived in a time where people sorted out their problems) so yes, I would expect them to go and speak to people if they had a problem.
The wording and 'text speak' spelling of the note suggest someone rather more chavish though.0 -
Jackinbox99 wrote: »Whats not road legal? Exhaust noise is not part of an MOT. In fact, you technically dont even have to start a car up for it to pass an MOT. (obviously abs wont work without running engine, but brakes will still work).
I checked the MOT regulations and spoke to several MOT testers on this exact subject as one of my motorbikes has a full race exhaust system on it which is more than slightly loud.
Well, you would have an interesting way to pass the emission test with your view on the mot.
I think you need to take a bit more advice on the subject.0 -
That notwithstanding, it is still, as far as I can remember, a part of the MOT to check the noise levels.Well, you would have an interesting way to pass the emission test with your view on the mot.
I think you need to take a bit more advice on the subject.The greater danger, for most of us, lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low and achieving our mark0 -
To answer any questions and assumptions as far as I can remember what's been posted:
- Yes we are approachable and no we're not chavs (just because you have a slightly louder car it does not make the driver chavvy!)
- We are friends with our direct neighbours and the old man who lives two doors down. The neighbours to our right talk to us if they have any problems (we had someone visiting once and left the dog in the house for an hour and she started barking, neighbour let us know so I apologised and gave her some flowers), neighbour to the left is a middle aged woman who teaches the handicapped part time and again we converse regularly, the old man 2 doors down on the left absolutely adores the mini. The neighbour 2 doors down on the right is an odd one - he sleeps all day, awake all night and has friends visiting in the early hours of the morning in loud sports cars pumping out loud music so I can't seem him complaining!
- We like to think of ourselves as considerate neighbours -when our first housemate was playing music at a level that I thought was too loud, I went to the neighbours to ask if it was annoying them and they both said they couldn't even hear it.
- The car is a 1974 morris mini 1000, yes the engine and exhaust are not original. The original engine (a 998 and exhaust were actually louder). I got it slightly wrong in my original post - it's a 1340 not a 1380 engine and has a stage 1 kit with 68bhp at the wheels.
- When I say the car is loud is not ridiculously loud - I'd say it's about the same noise as your average sports car, and slightly noiser than your 'everyday' cars like ford focus, nissan micra, volvo estate etc.
- The car is in perfect working condition and the exhaust is not blowing but this colder weather is making the car louder than it is in the summer.
- There isn't anywhere we can park it where it won't be close to someone's house.
- No he's not turning it on and faffing around for ages before driving off and he doesn't turn his music on.
- It's not everyday - as I said in my first post he works 2 shifts which alernate each week so he effectively goes to work early 5 days out of every 14.
- No it's not as loud as that mini in the clip posted, it's quieter and deeper than that.
I think that covers everything that was asked...
Tomorrow he's going to knock on the neighbours doors and try to find out who wrote the note, if anyone owns up to it then he's going to apologise and ask them what they feel would be a suitable solution.
It's a stainless steel twin DTM centre exit exhaust (I don't know what that means, I'm just writing what the boyfriend told me!)
A twin inch pipe into the back box feeding into twin three inch pipes isn't quiet. Especially if the rest of the boxes have been replaced with a straight pipe.0 -
Well, you would have an interesting way to pass the emission test with your view on the mot.
I think you need to take a bit more advice on the subject.
A 1974 mini would not need an emissions test as far as I know, as I thought that it only applied to vehicles newer than that.It is, it shouldn't be considerably louder than standard.
Shouldnt be louder than a similar vehicle i think is the wording which was quoted to me by my local MOT man. He then said that it doesnt actually say what a "similar vehicle" is, so a mini with a tuned up engine could be compared to another mini with a tuned up engine.0
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