Car stereos blaring out!

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

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

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?

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!

Oh dear, mea culpa. I have meandered!

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.

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

👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

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!" 😁

Never been one of the herd …

Exactly, me too!

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

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?

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

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.

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

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

biglouis

Having had at least one oikish neighbour with boom boom speakers I have a low opinion of people who blast out music of any sort. For me music is an unobtrusive background to other activities. I would only have it loud if I were trying to drown out other unwanted noice (such as works going on outside). However I live in a detached house so it doesnt bother my neighbours.

Yes biglouis, I sympathise.Our oik neighbours son does exactly the same. Only to add to our misery he "works" on his car in their drive adjacent to our house! It's boom boom boom full blast for hours. We don't speak to said neighbours but others have complained to him.....makes no difference whatsoever! The family also have a "party"speaker which they blast out at every opportunity during the summer.I don't know if anyone has complained about this.It probably wouldn't make any difference. Total ignorance and very antisocial!😡😡

the growl of a Porsche can never be socially unacceptable

Very rural, not vet!

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.

There’s a huge difference between the roar of a Porsche and the awful noise of a faulty exhaust or an attempt to add a big bore exhaust extension, bought from Halfords to a clapped out Corsa (with sincere apologies to any GN’s with one) GSM?

Sarnia we can car share any time

Thanks Marydoll, Georgesgran and Kalu.

Aveline, I have explained to you why I revealed that I drive a Porsche. There was absolutely no need for you to start writing posts saying that I was flaunting my wealth, flashy, living down to the image of a Porsche driver and that I had disappointed you. None of your comments are warranted. I frankly don’t care what you think of my car, and I am not in need of your approval, but I do take exception to your almost Puritanical obsession with this trivial issue. You want a quiet, unobtrusive little car - fine. Have I criticised your preference? No. So kindly stop insulting my choice. We are obviously very different people.

I think it is fine to have your music as loud as you like when driving around but we all turn our music down if starting off early in the morning or late at night, surely that is just common courtesy