Neighbors - how do THEY cope with you?

[[PIMPIN]]

Hey guys,

Just curious as to what sort of feedback/response/treatment you guys get from your neighbors regarding your car's exhaust and how loud it is. Recently just shifted into new house and suddenly I'm very much aware of how loud the GTR can be especially at night or early in the morning.

I find myself stopping over by the guardhouse and slotting in my silencer just to drive into the compound and I don't leave the turbo timer running anymore (I just take it easy on the way home - let everything cool down nicely). I guess those who are not car enthusiasts would find the noise irritating but so far no complaints yet.

This is the first time I've had to deal with neighbors as previously lived in condos (last was the condominium where Anwar and Saiful allegedly did it) so even though car was loud, it went into carpark and even if people do hear the exhaust, they probably can't tell which car/house it belonged to. Other than the condo, the only houses my family has lived in recently have been the Putrajaya house (no neighbors unless you count Pak Lah!) and the Perlis family home (which have no immediate neighbours since its kampung ).

Anyways, the reason for all this was that I got dragged into this conversation with some friends (ex-friends LOL j/k) who say that my car being loud is unfair to my neighbors who have obviously paid a fair bit for peace and quiet (if I may add, its way too quiet!). But the way I see it, so long as my car passes JPJ inspections and I extend the courtesy of having my silencer fitted within the compound without even being asked then I don't them anything. Plus, I paid for my house just like everyone else.

So any bad neighbor stories? Any red paint splashed on gates, etc?Cause although I have no problems YET, I've only moved in 3 weeks ago.

at the same time, I'm

 

[KungFuMan]

at the same time, I'm gay??? (Jokking hor)

He! He! I don't think the man in the house will really feel disturbance. But prepare to feel the wrath of his wife.

 

[farizio]

i have no muffler on my car and my neighbours still love me.

you're using the PE Ti-R right? its not that bad lah

 

[Daniel89]

If I were your neighbour I will enjoy the RB music every time you drive it !

 

[hakunamatata]

tell ur negibours da sound is music

 

[zohan]

my neighbour's car alarm will be triggered each time i got back to my house. but i make it a point of not coming back later than 12am, beside they arent asleep yet and it is alright. i m not concern about the noise but i m more concern about the smell from the v-power petrol which can be very irritating and polluting especially to children. as for the neigbour next to the neigbour i have no idea. tis is a weekend car so i only drive it occasionally so tis issue of annoying the neighbour is never an issue to me. be good to ur neigbour and they wouldnt even mind if u r driving a truck which is more noisy.

 

[khoyos]

as for me, i have no problems (so far) cos my neighbours are the same. there are skylines left n right of my house (i'm the only one without skyline ) especially the neighbour with the big bikes, warming up bikes are quite a hassle it seems. need to squeeze the throttle for like 5 mins before going out. so if we dont mind their loudness, they shouldnt when our cars are noisy. my immediate neighbours are fine but a few houses away, my mom keep on getting complaints from them cos my cars n my brother's car are too loud and they said "rasa macam nak baling batu je". feel sorry in a way but if they are willing to contribute a little bit for me to buy nismo weldina, surely i would not use loud mufflers(excuses really)...

we admit that RB sound is music to our ears, but not to neighbours with kids trying to sleep when we pass by their houses, triggering their cars' alarms (and also the house alarm in my case - neighbour set it to super sensitive due to some thefts). especially with teh tarik sessions going as late as 4-5am...

what to do, tebal muka, pretend nothing happened hehehe...

 

[[PIMPIN]]

Well I guess I'll have to be more specific. The place where I've just moved to is ridiculously quiet at night and even during the day, you can hear my car very clearly from inside your room, the moment I drive past the main guardhouse. And the compound is designed in a way that the houses seem quite close to one another and since the roads are paved with some design rubbish surface, the sounds from my car are amplified and sort of reverberate throughout.

And not to mention the fact that from the guard house to my front gate, a distance of probably 300m at most, there are no less than 5 speed humps (the irritating height that requires you to practically stop completely and crawl over in 1st gear).

Whatever it is, I think its a question of mentality rather than noise when I really think about it. Cause everyone in the compound drives or rather are driven around in boring Mercs, BMWs and Lexus sedans/SUVs/etc.

farizio - do you really run without a muffler? i have been wanting to ask when you were going cruising maybe i'll try keep up with you during the tunnels.

 

[farizio]

farizio - do you really run without a muffler? i have been wanting to ask when you were going cruising maybe i'll try keep up with you during the tunnels.

yep. might go cruising end of the month.. and what do you mean 'try'? hahaha usually its me trying to keep up

i'll give you a call la, esp since you live EFFING nearby hahaha

 

[airtreknic]

i'm not really sure my exhaust from my er34 gtt is loud, but what i know is that the house which is in between is suffering but he never complain cause his neighbour has a Ferrari F430, 2 Porche 911 turbo and a lotus elise exhaust that sounds like a ferrari also and went he starts his car is like music to my ears...hahaha. And the house opposite has a r34 gtr also. So i guess he have to bare with us. And the house behind his house, is where the garage is and that guy drives a evo8 and a porche cayenne. Every morning all of us start our car to warm up and our area looks like there is a orchestra event going on.

 

[cmng]

ha.. my housing area is a bit quiet
when i drive back the car midnight.. the whole road awaken

imagine a 4 banger with no muffler at all
only one silencer at the end.

but lucky when i moving at the road.. no hump.. so speed is ok and exhaust still low
it just early morning when i start the car..

people might think it
what a lanciao old junk car with loud exhaust.
like ah beng car only

:)

 

[adnux]

funny tho, but kinda interesting when talking about the music of our ears but not to the neighbours as far as i concern, if u be gud to ur neighbours, and they won't giv a damn about the music anymore.. la la la la la

Bump: funny tho, but kinda interesting when talking about the music of our ears but not to the neighbours as far as i concern, if u be gud to ur neighbours, and they won't giv a damn about the music anymore.. la la la la la

 

[snx]

i'm not really sure my exhaust from my er34 gtt is loud, but what i know is that the house which is in between is suffering but he never complain cause his neighbour has a Ferrari F430, 2 Porche 911 turbo and a lotus elise exhaust that sounds like a ferrari also and went he starts his car is like music to my ears...hahaha. And the house opposite has a r34 gtr also. So i guess he have to bare with us. And the house behind his house, is where the garage is and that guy drives a evo8 and a porche cayenne. Every morning all of us start our car to warm up and our area looks like there is a orchestra event going on.

How I wish I can stay there.

 

[iexit]

They will get use to it LOL but i'm extra friendly to keep things civilized.

Both my cars are not only loud but vibrates window paints ;-) My Gts-t is an improvement in terms of vibrations but worse off in the sound quality department :-D

 

[raja_rokan]

Thanks everyone for bringing this issue here. Until today it is impossible for me to get any complaints from my neighbours since my RB25DE is still having the exhaust of virgin sotong , stock standard. There are always a future plans to do on almost everything here, but lets zoom in to this exhaust decible range. Let say I will either dump new engine or not, what kind/brand of exhaust that you guys think is suitable. I mean not really just for me , but more towards the general ideas of this thread of how to minimize those complaints from them.

Sorry PIMPIN, did not mean to re-route or hijack your thread here but just try to find any available solution.

Cheers.

 

[farizio]

anything nismo is pretty quiet.. i had a weldina NE-1 exhaust system on mine, and a lot of people complained it DIDN'T make enough noise... its so quiet the stock turbo's spooling up was louder

but its still louder than a stock exhaust (duh) and in parking lots i still seem to set off alarms

 

[calvintys]

I dont have any trouble with my neighbour but i have problem picking up girl on my car at their house. Everytime i need to shut down my engine when i waited outside their house, most of them say i drove a truck not a car. WTF...Currently i am using Blitz exhaust. As for those whom after some silence exhaust, i would say go for FuJisubo super TI, the silence version. I used to have it, it sould just a little but louder then standard car exhaust. You will not notice much different if you compare it to standard proton exhaust, and when you rave it up, THEN the differences will come. High recommended for someone after silense exhaust. I also has HKS Super Silnce not sooo good as compare to Fujisobo Super TI

 

[zeus83]

few days back, i heard a car roaring down my condo, tot its a GTR or RX7, to my surprise i found its Kancil L2 with huge muffler, so far i like the 6 inline sound esp with a muffler...

 

[joethurr]

I dont have any trouble with my neighbour but i have problem picking up girl on my car at their house. Everytime i need to shut down my engine when i waited outside their house, most of them say i drove a truck not a car. WTF...Currently i am using Blitz exhaust. As for those whom after some silence exhaust, i would say go for FuJisubo super TI, the silence version. I used to have it, it sould just a little but louder then standard car exhaust. You will not notice much different if you compare it to standard proton exhaust, and when you rave it up, THEN the differences will come. High recommended for someone after silense exhaust. I also has HKS Super Silnce not sooo good as compare to Fujisobo Super TI

I can relate to that bro... Once i went to fetch some gals out for some supper, ended up getting complained by their neighbour, exact words "could you please shut down your engine, my family is trying to sleep". I was too drunk to respond, took me a while to realize he was referring to my car engine...damn.. talk about lag...This was at around 1 am..

 

[JaHaX]

changed my kinda loud kakimoto hyper full mega n1 muffler to super sleeper nismo weldina big box a couple of months back and i solved my problem ... no more havoc at a parking place in my office and in my housing area

and one funny thing happened last weekend whenever i was washing my car ... was approached by my ultra friendly immediate neighbour whereby he asked me "....tak perasan u balik semalam, senyap exhaust..." ... seriously ... kakakaka

wonder how he cope with 2 skylines with somking canons all this while ... kakakaka