Quick rant thread.

[Palazzo 477]

21 hours ago, Jacko said:

People in -

• Late model mustangs (particularly ecoboosts, but applies to all)
• Teslas with inane number plates
• Pile of sh*t AU/BA etc falcons
• GTIs with pops and bangs tunes
• Ford rangers with all the middle age white man bedazzlements you can stick on
• Anyone driving a modern "MG"

You are not cool. Nobody thinks you are cool.

That is all.

 

I’ll add. To the idiot with the black e92 335i in Grey Lynn,  your bangs tune is sh*t and nobody cares.

[E30 325i Rag-Top 2956]

18 hours ago, Eagle said:

Not a VW\Audi exclusive these days. Heard\seen a many 3 series running those 'tuned ecus"  

Very true, but there is some absolute cock in a VW GTi around Howick that spends hours driving around going “brmmm, pop, bang, bang, bang, brmmm, pop, bang, bang, bang” at all hours of the day.

[KwS 2425]

Ill add to the list; 

Loud motorcycles with no mufflers being ridden at WOT around residential areas in the early hours of the morning.

Please seriously maim yourself.

Heck, loud motorcycles at all, do they really think their mix of a long sloppy fart and a bad trombone sounds good?

[gjm 3258]

12 minutes ago, KwS said:

Ill add to the list; 

Loud motorcycles with no mufflers being ridden at WOT around residential areas in the early hours of the morning.

Please seriously maim yourself.

Heck, loud motorcycles at all, do they really think their mix of a long sloppy fart and a bad trombone sounds good?

As with cars, there's often a case for changing the exhaust.

But (stereotypically) late-model Harleys with open pipes being ridden by look-at-me-I'm-having-a-crisis types are unnecessary and annoying.

[Vass 830]

FOR SALE signs in front of houses. House gets sold, some f**ker drives all the way out to slap a big red SOLD sign on it and leaves the bloody thing sitting there for another 3 months. Yes well done, you've sold a house. It served its purpose. Take your shitty sign and f**k straight off. Tempted to start setting them on fire.

[Palazzo 477]

49 minutes ago, Vass said:

FOR SALE signs in front of houses. House gets sold, some f**ker drives all the way out to slap a big red SOLD sign on it and leaves the bloody thing sitting there for another 3 months. Yes well done, you've sold a house. It served its purpose. Take your shitty sign and f**k straight off. Tempted to start setting them on fire.

Contact the REINZ or council,  from memory, a sold sticker is only allowed to stay up for 1 week.

[gjm 3258]

3 hours ago, Vass said:

FOR SALE signs in front of houses. House gets sold, some f**ker drives all the way out to slap a big red SOLD sign on it and leaves the bloody thing sitting there for another 3 months. Yes well done, you've sold a house. It served its purpose. Take your shitty sign and f**k straight off. Tempted to start setting them on fire.

Houses listed for sale. Call agent, be told it is under contract but they'll call if it fals through. 

6 weeks later, house still listed for sale. Call agent, be told a contract extension was granted for the purchaser to sort some stuff out. Agent will call if it falls through.

Weeks later, still listed for sale. Call agent... Contract fell through, just gone under contract to new buyer. "What happened to you calling if the contract fell through?" "Oh. Does say that we would... Sorry."

[Palazzo 477]

2 hours ago, gjm said:

Houses listed for sale. Call agent, be told it is under contract but they'll call if it fals through. 

6 weeks later, house still listed for sale. Call agent, be told a contract extension was granted for the purchaser to sort some stuff out. Agent will call if it falls through.

Weeks later, still listed for sale. Call agent... Contract fell through, just gone under contract to new buyer. "What happened to you calling if the contract fell through?" "Oh. Does say that we would... Sorry."

Ask them for the unconditional date and call then. No reason they can't tell you. Or put in a back up.

[Jacko 2154]

10 hours ago, KwS said:

Ill add to the list; 

Loud motorcycles with no mufflers being ridden at WOT around residential areas in the early hours of the morning.

Please seriously maim yourself.

Heck, loud motorcycles at all, do they really think their mix of a long sloppy fart and a bad trombone sounds good?

Farting armchairs added to list. 

[M3AN 4016]

14 hours ago, KwS said:

Ill add to the list; 

Loud motorcycles with no mufflers being ridden at WOT around residential areas in the early hours of the morning.

Please seriously maim yourself.

Heck, loud motorcycles at all, do they really think their mix of a long sloppy fart and a bad trombone sounds good?

This. Try living 150 metres from the Headhunters HQ in Mt Wellington (edit: sorry I meant the "Fight Club" because of course it's not a gang headquarters at all, despite the row of dumped, tinted, black Mercs out front). Add the gunshots in the middle of the night as the 'Bees fire shotguns at their windows, ugh. 

Since moved to Epsom, no longer a problem. 

Edited September 5, 2022 by M3AN

[polley 916]

On 9/5/2022 at 6:24 AM, KwS said:

Ill add to the list; 

Loud motorcycles with no mufflers being ridden at WOT around residential areas in the early hours of the morning.

Please seriously maim yourself.

Heck, loud motorcycles at all, do they really think their mix of a long sloppy fart and a bad trombone sounds good?

My bikes are loud. 

 

Better than some idiot in a car knocking you off because they can't be f**ked opening their eyes and "didnt see you". Or too busy doing their makeup, scoffing down a hunger buster combo, or f**king around on their phone. 

 

But I dont ride a straight piped v rod either, and I dont ride around residential places in first gear bouncing off the revlimiter.

[Twistee 453]

Regarding bikes, I can handle just about any straight piped bike other than a Harley. There is something about them that is just brutally obnoxious, and the whole idea that a Harley is somehow an all out  performance bike and all other brands are so called "crotch rockets" speaks volumes about the interesting owners. Possibly the idea that bike exhausts with a factory db stamp on them seem to get through all manner of inspection, yet the moment you touch a car exhaust the cops are on you as a boy racer. 

[polley 916]

10 minutes ago, Twistee said:

Regarding bikes, I can handle just about any straight piped bike other than a Harley. There is something about them that is just brutally obnoxious, and the whole idea that a Harley is somehow an all out  performance bike and all other brands are so called "crotch rockets" speaks volumes about the interesting owners. Possibly the idea that bike exhausts with a factory db stamp on them seem to get through all manner of inspection, yet the moment you touch a car exhaust the cops are on you as a boy racer. 

They've cracked down on bikes a bit at wof time. A lot of bikes that i wouldn't consider loud have failed.

I've also been pulled over by the coppas because they were of the opinion my bike being too loud.

 

But yes certain types certainly seem to get away with it.

[Twistee 453]

Pretty hard to not feel like the system is broken right now. God forbid anyone would ever entertain the thought of having an adjustable silencer, not like that has been a factory option on countless cars for years.... So much of the cert law just seems to be a knee jerk reaction. 

[KwS 2425]

The system is fine, people are broken. Just be thankful we even have a path for modification, unlike other countries. Would hate to get a massive fine for having a pod filter installed like in Aus.

[Driftit 2078]

I live not far from the most popular route from Wellington to Martinborough.  On a nice weekend there would be hundreds of bikers on club "Cruises" from Wellington.
I would say the majority of them are driving like f**kwits.  Where I live it goes from 50kph residential to 70kph as you are leaving town.  Then to 100kph once all the houses are done.  As soon as the 50kph zone finishes they are mostly all in full race mode.

If I did this in my race car which is half the volume even with a straight pipe.  I would be set upon by the police.  Yet many of these bikes should not be on the road.  They are race bikes that never see the track.

I heard the local oldies are going to start filming them.  Wonder if any of that footage can be used.

[polley 916]

9 hours ago, Driftit said:

I live not far from the most popular route from Wellington to Martinborough.  On a nice weekend there would be hundreds of bikers on club "Cruises" from Wellington.
I would say the majority of them are driving like f**kwits.  Where I live it goes from 50kph residential to 70kph as you are leaving town.  Then to 100kph once all the houses are done.  As soon as the 50kph zone finishes they are mostly all in full race mode.

If I did this in my race car which is half the volume even with a straight pipe.  I would be set upon by the police.  Yet many of these bikes should not be on the road.  They are race bikes that never see the track.

I heard the local oldies are going to start filming them.  Wonder if any of that footage can be used.

What makes them race bikes? No lights, race fairings, slicks etc ?

[Driftit 2078]

2 hours ago, polley said:

What makes them race bikes? No lights, race fairings, slicks etc ?

Two wheeled equivalent of an Ariel Atom. But louder. 

[polley 916]

10 hours ago, Driftit said:

Two wheeled equivalent of an Ariel Atom. But louder. 

Ok, so loud pipes = race car / bike

[Cement 871]

Sweet I have race car at the moment then as no exhaust at all 😆 I get to about 2500rpm and have to button off as it sounds like the world is ending !

[E30 325i Rag-Top 2956]

2 hours ago, polley said:

Ok, so loud pipes = race bike

If you get up close and look at the exhaust, it normally has stamped into it “not for road use” or “for Motorsport use only” or similar.

[polley 916]

22 minutes ago, E30 325i Rag-Top said:

If you get up close and look at the exhaust, it normally has stamped into it “not for road use” or “for Motorsport use only” or similar.

Same as heaps of exhausts on cars, after market ecu's, fuel pumps, blow off valves, fuel pressure regulators, and most performance parts used on many road going cars. Odd since they still get cert and wof with these parts supposedly "for off road use only". 

[jon dee 500]

Anyone who was ever young would have learned that more noise equals more power and performance.

Has something changed ?? 

Cheers...

Edited September 8, 2022 by jon dee

[treone 648]

Anyone who was once young figured out that more noise increases the likelihood that you where going to score - figuratively so to speak 😂

Anyone who has since matured - relatively speaking - has realised that more noise also equals more attention haha 🤣

 

[Twistee 453]

It's compulsory to grow old, it's optional to grow up....