Applebees Appetizer posted:

I'd love to have a sleeper Prius with a Tesla setup in it or something and just destroy everyone

Zero One posted:

Well?

Did you win?

BlackMK4 posted:

My S2000 is dog slow, but it has a gigantic wing, stickers / numbers from local TT/TA series, 10" wide slicks all around, and is loud so no one really bothers.

xzzy posted:

It happens in my prius too, I tend to bury my foot at stop lights and anyone in a fancy car next to me tends to respond by also burying their foot because gently caress if they're gonna let a shameful hybrid be in the front!

Cartoon Man posted:

Chinatown posted:

took all of 48 hours of ownership of my scat pack for someone to want to race on the freeway.

at 8am.

on a monday.

while i was driving to the office.

slidebite posted:

Basically like the front bench seat of a 60s-70s Lincoln or Buick.

totally would

davebo posted:

I just don't understand why all the slowest cheapest cars in my neighborhood have to have the loudest wake-the-baby exhaust systems and be driven like assholes, but the few people that have legit fast cars with V8's just rumble quietly by until they get to the main road. Is number of cylinders tied to amount of consideration for your fellow humans?

Or did I find my own solution in describing the exhaust? Is it all people who haven't had a kid that don't mind waking everyone up? Can't be, because I had a loud corsa exhaust on my corvette at age 25 but I still kept it under 2k rpm's in residential neighborhoods at night.

cakesmith handyman posted:

The wanker near me with the string of lowered fartcan stanced turdboxes didn't become more considerate when his wife had a baby and it got woken up every single time he came or went so no I think some people are just terrible human beings.

I mean how dependant on your lovely car in lieu of a personality do you have to be to know it wakes your baby and stresses your wife out 6 times a day and not think of toning it down a little?

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Posting from a throwaway for whatever reason, just don't want this to blend into my other subs.

So basically my car is my life. I have a tuned Subaru Impreza WRX STI that is my hobby, my transportation, my life, I'm more comfortable behind the wheel than I am in my own bed. Its not quite as fast as I want it but it looks amazing and the sound system is seriously as good as it can be.

I live in a large apartment complex in Tucson, I'm guessing probably 100 units or so. Not sure. Anyways the complex is really cool because a lot of places won't let you work on your car, well I can pay an extra premium every month to get a mechanics spot under shade. It's an extra 2 bills a month but so worth it.

When I work on my car I BLAST my system. It helps me think and focus. Also important to note our complex has quiet hours between and 10pm and 8am, I follow these to the letter but I do need to work on my car so some Saturday's and Sunday's I crank poo poo from 8:01am to 9:59pm. I am not breaking any rules at all.

I moved in in January and this Sunday was apparently a major problem. I had two people ask me to turn it down. I totally did but one came back and said its not the volume, it's the bass, can I turn the bass down. I said I would try but I guess that wasn't good enough because he came down a third time. Finally I told him I paid for the spot, I wasn't breaking any rules, I'd only be out there until 10pm. He said his kids had to go to bed at 8:30 and the bass from my car was rattling his walls. I told him I'd done my best to accommodate him but I was done. He told me he'd call the police (who never showed) and talk to management. I just stopped responding to him and cranked my system to drown our his barking. I worked on my car until 9:59 when I turned my system off.

I got an email from my apartment manager asking if she could come by. She's really cool and I want to help her but I feel like I'm paying extra for the mechanics spot, I'm not breaking any rules and that guy had no right to talk to me like that. She said she managed a nice place and she's gotten complaint after complaint about my car. I told her I was sorry but I was still well within my rights and not breaking rules. She asked me to please consider for her sake using headphones Or earbuds if music is that important to me. I said I'd try,

I worked on my car all night last night and used ear buds and it just wasn't the same. I spent thousands of dollars and so much time to tune my system perfectly and to not use it when I want sucks. I want to help her out but am I even being an rear end in a top hat in the first place?

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I'll so loving pissed because it wasn't even a month ago I drove it to Cali to get it repainted and I came out this morning and it has key marks all up and down the side some even down to metal. I stopped playing bass in my mechanics spot so no one had any right or reason to do this. This isn't a touch up job either this will have to be taken to metal and reprimed for it to look right and I don't know about insurance since they don't value a 2001 WRX STI the same I do. This sucks so bad.

um excuse me posted:

At no point was a mention of what kind of car it was necessary to tell the story. That should tell you enough about that guy.

90s Solo Cup posted:

People don't bother racing someone in a bland japanese luxury car.

Sube WRX STD Boy posted:

When I work on my car I BLAST my system. It helps me think and focus. Also important to note our complex has quiet hours between and 10pm and 8am, I follow these to the letter but I do need to work on my car so some Saturday's and Sunday's I crank poo poo from 8:01am to 9:59pm. I am not breaking any rules at all.

sarcastx posted:

90s Solo Cup posted:

But you are pissing people the hell off. Enough to apparently get your poo poo keyed up.

Any other property manager would have put an end to that mechanic's spot poo poo asap.

Flyinglemur posted:

I genuinely like the bight Toyota blue. The local dealership had one and it looked really nice.

Well, that's my hot take. Rack 'em