I just had to post this article about neighbors who didn't like loud exhausts!

https://www.carscoops.com/2020/05/an...noisy-exhaust/

Expandable foam...PRICELESS!!!

 

I get it. A guy who lives a fair distance from me owns an Audi S4 with open pipes. I've been trying to track down exactly where he lives because it is beyond obnoxious. I know exactly when he lives for work every morning.

 

I love the switchable exhaust on the F type but would like the option that's available on later models, mine is 16 MY, to have a quiet start up when starting up late at night or early morning near other homes

 

I currently have a kid across the street with a badge engineered Mustang wannabe Shelby edition. He's not running the stock mufflers for sure. I've walked over to him and asked him if there's anything he can do to stop me jumping out my chair and my cats from running behind the sofa when he cranks it over. He lets it idle for five minutes before driving off too so I don't know that he's particularly knowledgable about cars. He drops the windows down when he roars off down the street so I don't think the "I didn't know it was that loud" excuse holds water. Our city has an ordinance requiring an "effective muffler". I don't think this meets that. I guess I need to call the local PD and see what they have to say. I love a V8 burble as much as the next guy but this is just bad...he's got a tune too...

Added some Google Drive links to a couple of my external camera recordings. Let me know what you would do!

https://drive.google.com/file/d/15_1...ew?usp=sharing
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_da...sp=sharing,%20
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1hot...ew?usp=sharing

 

This took an OPPOSITE turn to what I was expecting.


I thought that F-type owners LIKED loud exhausts...

 

You can like loud exhausts but still respect your neighbours...

 

With close neighbors, that is too loud unless it is only driven occasionally.

 

There's a difference between loud and obnoxious ...

 

My bike sets off car alarms at idle. I love the sound of my F Type and the wife's F Pace. However, i always push the quiet button when I enter my neighborhood and slow roll in second gear on my bike. It's respect and it goes in both directions.

 

Three Sundays ago I joined a group of drivers for a spirited drive through the Santa Monica Mountains and Canyons out to Pacific Coast Highway and the beach. When I started my Pantera in the garage, somehow the choke got stuck and went to 4000rpms immediately, and no blipping of the throttle would bring it down. My Pantera is already in the "obnoxiously" loud category and at 4000rpms is extremely obnoxious. I left anyway hoping that once the car warmed up the idle would return to normal which it did. When I got home several hours later, a neighbor who I don't know, was walking by my house as I drove into my driveway. He yelled out, "Thanks for waking me up a 6am, this morning," instinctively, I answered, "You're welcome." I don't think he was amused.

 

The simple fact is that loud exhausts are obnoxious! There is not a modern production car that does not pass the industry requirements when it leaves the factory. After that, it is the fault of some "tuner" type that thinks that he is making an improvement in their car. There are aftermarket systems that can improve performance without excessively increasing the noise level. If you think that the public does not mind this aural assault you are crazy. Combine the noise with reckless driving and excessive speed and you know why the public hates "the tuner crowd." I like the sound of a healthy engine, I rode Harleys for a very long time and I'll admit that my bikes got quieter as I got older, but I never ran straight pipes. Don't be a D * * *, respect your neighbors.

 

spent 10 minutes reading that article's comments, I just got too say the people that were condoning the vandalizing of the mustangs exhaust have to actually be brain dead. and people that go and call the cops on other people for having loud exhausts are just as ridiculous. the My F-type is far from the loudest car in my neighborhood, my dads viper is much much louder and I always drive respectfully through my community and when its early or late leave the valves close but jesus some of you guys are Karens. It's a loud exhaust not the end of the world. Reading those comments actually made me mad how ignorant some people are. Thank god my neighbors are either into cars or aren't so sad with their own lives that they have to go call the cops or try some funny business with my cars.

 

big difference between loud and obnoxious but you probably couldn't tell the difference, Oh come on really "aural assault" god people can be such snowflakes. it's a loud exhaust, you're not running over children in a community.

 

you and I sir would get along very well. Bravo

 

The difference between loud and obnoxious is a matter of expectation IMO.

In our neighborhood (as I mentioned here once), the three loudest exhausts I hear when I'm inside my house areAll the other cars in the 'hood are about the same, equally quiet, primarily tire noise (I'm lookin' at YOU, Teslas! ). OK, maybe the ladders on old work trucks rattle loudly but that isn't an oft-repeated occurrence. So, the exceptions above stand out.

I'm respectful of the neighborhood too (everyone knows I'm "the guy with the BIG garage" so no excessive RPM).

Still, filling an owner's exhaust with expanding foam? (Might actually help the lady with the Camry...)

 

Snowflakes, my ***. Some exhausts are just plain ****ing obnoxious. Straight pipes on a daily driver? Please. On modern cars, this doesn't help the performance and all it does is **** off people.

I appreciate the Cobra Kit car that is down the street, Open pipes, American V8 and he runs it around sometimes on the weekend. The ******* who lives down the street, around the corner, across a major street, down another street around another corner and somewhere further back there? **** him. No exhaust on an Audi S4 that he drives to work early every ****ing day, full throttle as he stomps on it to enter the major street? That's my forced alarm clock and I know this part is subjective, but I think it sounds like ****, to boot.

I'm looking for where the guy is so I can make some recommendations. Even not flooring it to redline when he enters the major street would be a huge help. If he tells me to **** off, I'll call the damn cops. I'm over it.

 

To add to my rant, I've owned a lot of V-Twin motorcycles. A Buell, which has a Harley engine, a TL1000R, various SV race bikes (650s and 400s pumped up to 500s). I went with a gutted muffler on the Buell for about 2 weeks before I put baffling back in. The TL had a loud exhaust and I would short shift in the neighborhood and keep it reasonable. There are ways to have loud exhaust and still not be an *******.

 

Never read the comments. Don't do it.

 

My 900SS would set off car alarms, but not from the Termignonis. It was when I pulled in the clutch. The ringing of the plates would trigger the glass-break detectors. The 748 also has Termignonis but I never got complaints from neighbors. The kid next door got reported to the local police enough times that his father took the keys. It was an Infiniti G35 (maybe a 37) that he got on a salvage title, probably flood damage. He had an aftermarket muffler and not even minimal sense to keep it cool in the neighborhood.

Don't forget that while it's possible to have a loud exhaust and not be an *******, it's also possible to be an ******* without one ;^)

 

Yes, that glorious sound of the dry clutch! My Diavel has full Termignonis, but it's a wet clutch. The pops and bangs on decel on it are not unlike the F Type. It's just that the F Type does it a little more authoritatively.