have a neighbor who is waaay too gung ho about various things she wants to do with our HOA's ARC. hired guns reporting violations, wants fences in yards that kids play in so she doesn't have to see a few toys outside, doesn't like people leaving their garage doors open during the day, crazy **** like that.

so my gift to her this coming holiday season is me converting my std. muffler to a 3 out sport version. i'll get to the caps at some point.....

i am very careful not to be chop sawing metal or checking timing @6k rpm after the neighbor kids might be in bed and i suspect this keeps me out of trouble. it helps that i have a 4yr old and understand how it works. i do my own car maintenance in my garage/driveway and if somebody has a problem with that well they can stuff an oily rag up their arse and light it. it's an infrequent thing; i could see somebody complaining if i were a commercial operation.

bottom line is if you refuse to let your neighbors have ANY impact on your life you're not only missing the bad, you're missing the good as well (poker games, 'hood bbqs, beer in the driveway time, etc. etc.

Back when my bro and I were in our teens, we'd work on our cars till the wee hours regularly. My parent's un(sound)insulated garage and driveway were only about 50ft. from our neighbors master bedroom. Years later, after they'd moved out, we found out from the new owners that they had actually added sound insulation to the walls facing in our direction. They never said a word to us about the noise and were always very friendly...

Thanks Mr. & Mrs. R! (need a tear-of-joy smiley)

All it takes is a little common sense. Would you want your neighbors to make a lot of racket form some hobby they enjoy?

In a former neighborhood we had one very young couple behind our house that loved to throw LOUD parties. Just about every other Friday night the music was so loud the police received about 20 complaints. They were issued tickets but they had a wealthy attorney dad that seemed to keep them from being arrested. They were a real pain to be around. One morning after they had partied until 4:00 AM my other neighbor saw me working on my chain saw at about 9:00 AM . He brought out his chain saw over and we had a repair clinic. It took quite a lot of revving the saws and some test cuts on the firewood to get them running in top order. The funniest part was seeing the party animal come out and yell something at us about trying to sleep.

Its a daily driver, not a hobby: I just started up the car and let it run, Kind of like I do on cold mornings before I go to work? Thats what I told the Cops, yea I started my car, whats the problem? The old battle-ax

Now if they had just come over and said "its getting late can you not run the car" I would have shut it down! But the Cops? Thats just stupid!

as i told our hoa board...when people have to present their own objections (vs. having others do it for them anonymously) they think long and hard about just how important their objections are.

Two months ago I broke in a 57 Chevy in my driveway, but it was 10AM Sunday morning. The procedure was rev it up to 3000 RPM and keep it there for 20 minutes. The neighbors came over to say hi and what a cool car it was. No problem.

I have GREAT neighbors..
dog got out..Pat called me and followed Max's around the hood till I showed.
I have keys & codes too 4 homes,
I DID NOT sing..past X-mas one them suggested caroling..right ...
at least 40 of us + 20 Dogs with christmas light collars going around shrieking for 3 hrs...
best part..second to last house,
gent. comes out thanking us..lamenting about how things and times had changed..
could he & friends perhaps sing for us..
we stumbled upon a Pavorotti junior and co.


love my hood
Rika

I'll be over tonight around 8 so we can fine tune mine. It should take more than an hour and a half:eek: The baffles will be out

I have to admit Craig, I was expecting a very different story!:D

I could bring my car over with the gutted G2 sport muffler and we could investigate the harmonic differences between a 3.4 twin plug, a carb'd 2.7 with an M&K muffler, and a 3.2 with a cat bypass and virtually no muffler. That ought to be enough to give the old bat a heart attack!http://forums.pelicanparts.com/suppo...s/beerchug.gif

Yea, that damn car has gotten me in more trouble lately!! Hey, what you guys do in front of my house I cant control.

Too bad the camaro isn't driveable right now, I could do some infinite burnouts in front of the neighbor's house.:D

I live on a quarter acre lot, and the narrow drive runs to the back corner where the garage is located. I race with the SCCA, and my car has little muffling, and unfortunately, must be loaded on the street into it's trailer. This fact has meant that due to last minute glitches, I miss events, because if I can't get it loaded by 9PM, it doesn't go until the next morning, which means 12 hours of getting to the track time have been lost.

It's only a minute or two of the car running just above idle, but I know it's annoying. Yet, even with my self imposed restrictions, and best attempts at keeping the noise down, the cops still show up sometimes.

What kills me is that nobody has ever complained to me about anything. The house is way nicer than when I bought it..(the previous owners didn't own a lawn mower, so i moved in in July to an unmowed that year lawn), I made sure my garage is insulated for sound and the doors are closed whenever I do work, yet still, the cops come a knocking if that car starts up.

When I moved in, I said "hello" to any neighbor I could find, and the north neighbor looked at me and walked away. nice! His daughter lives with him, and her kids as well, and the noises and fights she has with those kids have nearly caused me to call child services....
...but i don't want to be a bad neighbor, and while it's disturbing, i know it's not crossing over to the abusive side of things, so I don't.

But, I agree, come over, and let me explain what I''m doing, and we can work out a solution.

What's really annoying to me is that the guy down the street with a Harley is louder, yet nobody ever calls in about it.........:confused:

the sheeple have been told that harleys are a good and necessary part of the US economy and lifestyle. this has been done through rampant advertising and expansion of the retail side of the bsns. it's like letting a scared dog sniff your hand. once he knows you won't beat him he's okay with you. but if nobody introduces your hand to the dog the fear is always there.

damn sheeple.

I broke my hand (boxer's fracture) just the other day after the neighbors left their two large dogs out yet again. I have a high tolerance for just about any kind of annoyance but I can't turn my head the other way the way I can for an Eye-sore. Lawnmowing? Doesn't even phase me. Even my neighbor, who may be the slowest lawn mower operator on the planet, doesn't bother me when he spends and hour and a half pruning what should take 15 minutes. At least it serves a purpose, and it only happens once a week.

After contemplating what gun would be most satisfying I had a beer and called the cops. After another hour I was ready to take the law into my own hands. As I stormed over to the neighbor’s house I punched my garage which wasn't nearly as soft as I had expected. Possibly for the best, it certainly took some of the wind out of my sails. I still rang the door bell and discovered why the Police had no effect - they weren't even home. I can handle a couple minutes of barking until the dogs are brought in. I think for 90% of the population there is no way to just deal with hours of on and off barking from a dog that is left out on a regular basis while the owners are out. This $&#* could make an Iguana homicidal. If you think your dogs don't bark when you are away you might be mistaken. I'd like to say I don't know why my neighbors have decided to see if they can break me; but I can. They are just oblivious.

Rat poison in a raw hamburger patty lobbed over the fence will cure that problem ...

Domestic confrontation is never a good idea. You simply don't know who you are dealing with. My wife chooses to send an anonymous letter to the offender. So far it has worked pretty well and the abuses to property and ears subside.

Mega-Phones aimed at my ass-hole neighbor. The rest of the neighborhood just puts up with me as I try to be nice when talking to them.

T.C.

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RarlyL8:

You are joking--I hope? If not, do you have any idea the prison time one gets for poisoning someone's pet? Again, I hope your suggestion is a misguided joke!

Mike

I suspect it happens way more often than you might suspect. My Parents had some really annoying dogs that took extremely ill once or twice. I know I couldn't convict. Moral of the story: Don't drive your neighbors to murder.

Boy see what you started cgarr?.............Now your talking about controling the pet population. Next thing your going to invite next door over for steaks and have a speical seasoning for them.

I've worked on the 911 in the past, and the neighbors were cool and would stop by to see what I was doing.

They were kinda :eek: at seeing the engine/transmission out but were like :cool:.

It was a week at most then came the tuning part, I did it during the day when most were at work and it was pretty loud.

I have been asked to come help neighbors with their cars and actually helped this lady who is on the HOA board with her Jeep. Wouldn't start in P but it turned over in N. Turned out to be the shifter sensor. She kept saying wow... dealer would have made her bought a new tranny. :mad:

I do cap one side in the AM's and leave gingerly.. :D

I've yet to do a Seafoam treatment. SmileWavy