Loud car stereos.....

[rpoz-29]

Does anyone else have an issue with them? I'm not talking about loud music necessarily, but that "boom car" crap. I was told by the son of a friend that they're probably playing a "demo disc" that is designed to show the system's "bass efficiency", and "bass separation"! A study I read stated that over 25% of young people between 16-24 already have a 20% loss of hearing. We have a neighbor who's son has buddies with them, and they can be heard over my TV with my windows closed. We have local noise ordinances but unless the police hear it, they can't do much. If you file a complaint, they'll know who complained, and it'll only get worse. I hate to sound like an old grouch, but after about an hour of it, I'm ready to explode. I spoke with the Dad one day and dropped some hints, but I'm not sure he got it. Hopefully, we'll be moving before too long to a much less populated area.

[HI WINDING MONZA]

We are dealing with the same sort of thing here but its the bars in the barrio. Currently in court ( second time ) with one. We are allready shunned by the niehborhood for doing it cause none of the them have the guts to stand up against. ( they are all related one way or a nother ( can you think "Deliverance" ?)

Have the cops issue a citation , the laws are different in every state, so you have to research the ordiances if its a town and or county .

PM sent.


Doug in P.R.

[rpoz-29]

Unless the police hear the thing, they won't write a citation unless a complaint is made. Meaning that someone, (me), would be the complainant, and the offender would know I called the law. I don't have a problem with doing that if it doesn't get any better, but if the judge tosses it out, I would hear that crap 24/7. What floors me is the idea is that the "noise" they're listening to is actually a disc designed to show the "clarity" of their system. Nothing to do with music at all....just noise. When my county, (Chesterfield, Virginia), adopted a noise ordinance, it said that radios could not be heard over 50 feet from a vehicle. I knew a cop who wrote a bunch of tickets, and the judge dismissed every one of them. They are reluctant to waste their time writing them any more. Darn shame.

[67shovel]

I put a high end stereo in my 71 442 with sub woofers and amps and all the rest of it. It sounded great. I could crank the heck out of it! I had it parked one day, cranked it up, closed the door and walked away from it. Sure as sheet this thing was doing all that bass booming crap that we don't like to hear from somebody elses car. If they don't turn down the bass, your going to hear it. My brother owns a car audio store and installed my system. I asked about having to point the bass speaker towards the interior to get the sound from it as you do with the other speakers. "you can mount your bass speaker on a boat trailer behind you and your still going to hear it"!

[rpoz-29]

Part of my problem is some hearing loss after 40 years in a factory, as well as my age. I always wore ear protection, (and still do using chainsaws, lawn mowers, and power tools in general), but the constant noise took it's toll.

[monzabill]

the father may not had heard you the apple does not fall far from the tree!!!!

[monzabug350]

Yup...been dealing with it for years...you can hear them a block away or more. The ones that get me are the ones that pull up the 7/11,jump out and leave the door open and it sounds like he has a F18 in afterburner inside and if it isn't that booming sound its some foul mouth rap crap. Back in 05 I was test driving a car after repair in November,widows up,heater on sitting at a light and hearing a dull BOOM....BOOM,looking around I spotted the source,over in the right lane 4 cars up was a red civic.I knew it was him because I could see the little Christmas tree on his mirror jump every time there was a BOOM,I wondered what it must have sounded like inside the car. And how about the music (?)

[rpoz-29]

It's good to know it isn't only me. It really gets to me that the rules favor those making the noise, rather than those of us who have an issue with it.

[Kenova]

Every time I hear a loud stereo I think of the "old guy with a shotgun" from the movie
Tough Guys (Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas). Every now and then he would run into
some wannabe street punks with a ghetto blaster cranked up. His solution was to blast
it with his shotgun.

Ken

[spencerforhire]

Now we're really showing our age complaining about young guys with loud stereos. 30-40(or more!) years ago, it was the neighbors complaining about OUR hot rods and muscle cars with "Thrush" and "Cherry Bomb" mufflers.
I do agree that some of these kids seem to go out of their way to piss people off; they roll down their windows and crank it at traffic lights so all us "regular folk" can enjoy their poor taste in tunes.(Yes, I hate rap; I'm 58 years old. Look it up- it's a rule.lol) Also blasting "demo discs" to show off to their buds shouldn't be done in quiet residential neighborhoods, especially at night.
I'm more likely to laugh at one I hear booming in traffic; that is if I can hear it over the Flowmaster exhaust on my truck. I used to make a living building high end car audio sound systems; a perfect system with proper acoustics and dampening doesn't make all the parts of the car buzz and rattle, and would be loud only INSIDE the car.

[Kenova]

.......... 30-40(or more!) years ago, it was the neighbors complaining about OUR hot rods and muscle cars with "Thrush" and "Cherry Bomb" mufflers.

My neighbors had a reason to complain. If I let my Beaumont idle in the driveway it would
rattle everyone's windows.

Ken

[rpoz-29]

I agree with everything that's been said! It bothers me a lot less in traffic than it does when it's across the road for an hour or better. With me, it has more to do with the "attitude" than the actual noise. I had a neighbor once that owned a Late Model Stocker. Once in a while he would fire it on a Saturday, or Sunday afternoon. But only after he told his neighbors his intentions. Rather than pissing people off, most of us would wander down to watch. The only time I "won" a loud stereo encounter, I had a lowered Honda on my right while I was in a left turn lane at a stop light. He very suddenly cranked up his demo-disc. I was in a 4x4 Dodge diesel and my exhaust was almost at his window height. He rolled his window back up.