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| Thread ID: 81976 | 2007-08-12 22:37:00 | Should the driving age be raised to 18 ? | Digby (677) | PC World Chat |
| Post ID | Timestamp | Content | User | ||
| 580260 | 2007-09-12 01:40:00 | Try nisesity (necessity), catigotorised should been a clue :D | PaulD (232) | ||
| 580261 | 2007-09-12 02:29:00 | So you want to 'do up' your car to look or sound like a boy racer but not actually race?.... Noisy cars suck arse unless its on the track. I'm not going to 'do up' my car, my car is already 'done up'. A noisy car is a noisy car, it's not good or bad. (Well, as long as it abides by the laws - how loud it can be.) Mine is only a MINOR FRACTION of how loud legally a car can be (however it is louder than an average car). In a perfect world the cops would have a car crusher onsite and crush these noisy cars on the roadside. Big bore exhausts are all about noise tyler, you are boy racer. Unless the definition of 'Boy Racer' is different from what I think it is (which it very well could be!), the noise my car makes, doesn't make me a boy racer. I was looking at buying a car that was $1600, I did want to buy it, but I got it inspected by a car mechanic that my family trusts: he said that it had been "Rolled, bowled, and *******d" (excuse my language, and possibly my spelling). My car that I have bought (for $2500) hasn't been rolled bowled and (censored), it has been taken care of even though it is loud. I intend to take car of it too. (Many facts suggest/prove it has been taken good care of). Also: I don't have my license yet, I'm going for it next week: So how can I be a boy racer without a license (I do however have a car as I've said). ONE MORE THING: I don't intend on breaking the law. I'm a mature, sensible person. So as long as I'm not breaking the laws, or doing anything morally wrong (a loud'ish car isn't) then what's wrong. |
TylerR (12656) | ||
| 580262 | 2007-09-12 02:33:00 | Lol, well I see what I said above was censored (the swearing). The word I was saying was buthole (but the swearword term) then "ed". (I'm not saying this to offend anyone - I'm just quoting what I was told). |
TylerR (12656) | ||
| 580263 | 2007-09-12 03:07:00 | A loud car is breaking a law right back to the to 1920s. It was just subjective no db meter. Dont be a dickhead stop the noise. Some of us need to sleep off our hangovers. tedheath |
tedheath (537) | ||
| 580264 | 2007-09-12 03:13:00 | A loud car is breaking a law right back to the to 1920s . It was just subjective no db meter . Dont be a dickhead stop the noise . Some of us need to sleep off our hangovers . tedheath There is a legal law about how noisy your car can be . My car (as I said above) is within those limits . I'm not trying to be a dickhead, I don't drive and night or in the morning (not yet anyway) . So it shouldn't affect anyone . (Personally) about the noise of my car, it can only be heard from about 15 - 35 metres away (I'm terrible at judging) . It IS louder than the average car, but not quite as loud as some of these other cars out there . I only earn $113 a week, working 18 hours a week in a Supermarket, so I'm also not going to spent "a few hundred dolors" to change something that is already legal . (Commenting on something someone said prior) . ========= I'm not at all breaking the law, so thus am not a boy racer (and I never will be) . |
TylerR (12656) | ||
| 580265 | 2007-09-12 03:16:00 | Sorry, you've got me stumped with this, the closest dictionary.com will give me is incest. Sorry, I'm a terrible speller - I mean "it is needed - a need, not a want". |
TylerR (12656) | ||
| 580266 | 2007-09-12 03:20:00 | ...(Personally) about the noise of my car, it can only be heard from about 15 - 35 metres away (I'm terrible at judging).... :eek: :eek: By your own admission you're "terrible at judging" (I assume distances) and yet you're about to inflict yourself on the roads and other road users with a 1.5 tonne weapon????!!! Time to stay at home people!! :D (Gee Tyler, you're really getting a lot of attention here!!! :D ) |
johcar (6283) | ||
| 580267 | 2007-09-12 03:24:00 | :eek: :eek: By your own admission you're "terrible at judging" (I assume distances) and yet you're about to inflict yourself on the roads and other road users with a 1.5 tonne weapon????!!! Time to stay at home people!! :D (Gee Tyler, you're really getting a lot of attention here!!! :D ) Lol - a few points to that. -I said it wrong, I meant I am terrible and judging distances (but I'm not really lol) - I should say what I mean: -I had just worked a 10 hour day and Pack'n'Save, doing a lot of hard work, I was very dissy and literally felt like spewing. So I wasn't in a state to judge something like that. It was also three weeks ago. And (I think) my car is reletivly light, it would probably be around the 800KG mark (lol). ===================== Going back to distances, I know how far away things are, I just can't always remember them for three weeks then express them in meters! ===================== -Tyler |
TylerR (12656) | ||
| 580268 | 2007-09-12 03:24:00 | A loud/noisy car doesn't do much, the less mufflers just helps performance. It does very little to help with performance. Modern cars are designed to perform at almost their best under the current laws. A 1500CC car will not gain any performance by having a different exhaust. I WANT to have the boy racer "image", but I don't acctually want to BE a boy racer. (I DO NOT intend on breaking the law in any way, and I WILL be driving the speed limit). The best "IMAGE" you could possible have is to be normal, drive within the law and don't change your image just to impress your peers. A standard car driven properly will not draw the attention of the Police, Neighbours and anyone else that gets pissed off having the noisy cars around them. Trust me, I have been there, done that, ticked it off with a 1971 Falcon GTHO. Every cop for miles knew me and would stop me just for the hell of it whether I was doing wrong or not. |
Bantu (52) | ||
| 580269 | 2007-09-12 03:31:00 | It does very little to help with performance. Modern cars are designed to perform at almost their best under the current laws. A 1500CC car will not gain any performance by having a different exhaust. The best "IMAGE" you could possible have is to be normal, drive within the law and don't change your image just to impress your peers. A standard car driven properly will not draw the attention of the Police, Neighbours and anyone else that gets pissed off having the noisy cars around them. Trust me, I have been there, done that, ticked it off with a 1971 Falcon GTHO. Every cop for miles knew me and would stop me just for the hell of it whether I was doing wrong or not. In reply to your first paragraph: Until around a year ago, I knew nothing about cars. I was looking at cars on Trademe and any time I wouldn't know what something meant I would go ask my dad. He told me that the type of exhaust helps. I basically only know what he has told me, so I can't comment on this. Second: My car is louder than adverage, but not incredibly loud. Sometime I'll do an experament (not straight after I've worked a 10 hour day) then I'll see how far away I can hear it. So it wouldn't be heard to be bothered too many people, it's only up close you can hear that it is 'loudish'. Third: A Falcon, I would have thought would be way more powerful than the likes of a Mazda Presso, so it's like comparing apples with oranges. |
TylerR (12656) | ||
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