Car stereos blaring out!

Maybe the culprits should be asked if they have a public entertainment liscence! Or told,not everyone shares their taste in "music"!!😊

If someone's driving past, it's just a minute or two of their music.
Thats not too terrible, surely?

Germanshepherdsmum

Yes there is. It’s something I really love about my car, always have, always will. Most of my driving is done on open roads as I said above, because I live in a vet rural area - it’s not at a socially unacceptable level when driving slowly through a town or village. I am truly baffled by the hostility from one poster.

No need to justify your choice of car to me GSM. You love driving your Porche. 🤷‍♀️
How boring life would be if we all agreed and liked the same things.

Thanks Kalu. Yes, we are all different and that makes life interesting.

I am with GSM. My taste doesn't run to Porsches, although I use to love them.

Many of my cars used to be very old and eccentric, I started with a 2 stroke SAAB, at various times I have owned a very old very small Italian sports car ,a Volvo sports car, a Triumph. All cars that atracted attention. When my son was at secondary school, he told me that my old cars, mostly costing £s,a couple of hundred each, gave him tremendous street cred, when everyone elses mother drove a Fiesta.

Aveline may personally prefer a small quiet unobtrusive vehicle rather than try to draw (potentially negative) attention to myself by my car choice. GSM loves a Porsche and I will always enjoy something eccentric, old and, preferably brightly coloured which draws attention because of the total mismatch between car and owner. Wouldn't life be boring if we were all the same?

It would. I guess I have always liked something different, be it house, car, clothes. I am just me.

Exactly, me too!

Never been one of the herd …

Many years ago when we were hard-up newlyweds we had a little Hillman Imp. (For anyone who doesn't know the engine was at the back).

We were invited to a party at a country house and the other guests were discussing their variety of (very upmarket) cars.

One Porsche driver turned to my husband, winked and said, "Us rear-engine boys must stick together!" 😁

👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

We loved our we Imp V3ra we used to take our cat in the back seat with her kittens in a washing basket .Kept all the other road users amused

DH had a blue Imp, when we started going out. It kept breaking down half way between Glasgow and Ayr, leaving him stranded. He passed it on to his brother, when he bought a Hillman Avenger. HGD 26N was the reg. His brother was given that car too, when we bought a bright orange Alpine straight from the Hillman/ Chrysler factory, heavily discounted because FIL worked there.
I still remember that Reg too. FHS 149T. When Peugot bought the factory and closed it down, FIL made us promise never to buy a Peugeot car.
We stuck to that.

Oh dear, mea culpa. I have meandered!

traffic lights outside my shop this week and I'm getting used to cars with stereos blasting out music not always my choice though. I do like the shouted conversations on phones but I do wish they would finish them before moving so I know the outcomes!

Very loud sound systems in cars are the Toy-Of-Preference for the infantile adult attention-seeker.

The philosophy is "look at meeeeeee!" and if the selection of 'music' is RapCrap then they clearly want to be identified as being "down wiv the kids. Man".

Just as a vehicle can be pulled over if the police deem tinted windows to be too dark, then surely someone can be stopped if their sound system is loud,loud,loud? It's a safety issue as much as anything: how do they hear emergency sirens? And how the hell does anyone give full attention to the road if they're bobbing about and singing along to the all-enveloping racket?

Oops, Germanshepherdsmum: if the engine of my car was "howling and growling" I'd book it into a garage workshop for investigation, surely?

That’s how my car’s engine is meant to sound! I would be booking it in for investigation if it didn’t!

Some people find driving, playing their music loudly, cathartic.

We're always being told that our mental health is important.

Maggiemaybe

^To me those people are saying “look at me, I think I’m special”^

Got it in one, Theexwife.

DH likes his music on when he drives, and as he’s hard of hearing it has to be pretty loud . But he has the common courtesy to keep the windows shut and wait till he’s on the open road before he switches on.

Personally, I prefer a good audiobook.

To me those people are saying “look at me, I think I’m special”
Got it in one, Theexwife

Attention-seekers!

Just as a vehicle can be pulled over if the police deem tinted windows to be too dark
We bought a car with tinted rear windows mae13 and a neighbour remarked "I see you've bought a drug dealers's car!"
It was a standard Toyota 😁

MissAdventure

Some people find driving, playing their music loudly, cathartic.

We're always being told that our mental health is important.

But so is everyone's including those who like peace and quiet.

I remember when youths used to gather outside a local supermarket at night. The supermarket then started playing classical music, that soon shifted them!

Nobody seems to have mentioned the FACT that driving with music blaring out is illegal and they can be issued with a Section 59 Notice for alarm, distress or ANNOYANCE to members of the public.
Also if an exhaust is too loud under Motor Cars Excessive Noise Regulations 2016 (eu regulation 2014/540) which sets the noise level at 72db this would be an MOT failure and therefore should not be on the road.

Mine has never yet failed its MOT. The cars likely to fall foul of the regulations are those whose exhaust has been tampered with by the ‘boy racer’ types.

DH had a blue Imp, when we started going out

I learnt to drive in a blue Hillman Imp, Marydoll.
They were very small cars and my driving instructor was a very large man and must have been 6' 4"!
He used a walking stick and used to prod my foot with it if I didn't press the clutch down far enough. He also said I'd never pass first time which made me determined to prove him wrong (and I did!).

Whenever we see a Porsche round here it’s usually a drug dealer or footballer - usually young and blingy. So it’s wrong to say only the oldies have enough money to drive one. One of my neighbours has an electric one fortunately not noisy.