So it appears the Police are clamping down on noisy exhausts.

sunny007 said:
What about cars like Ferrari, porsche and lambos?
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If it wasnt for the 3/4 testing they would be fine. The point here is that most decent cars i.e Supercars, muscle cars etc basically cars which are built to be loud, are actually also reasonably quiet and civil when driven sedately.

Its only when you open the taps that the car barks. And here lies the problem, the majority of 'good' cars wont ever reach 3/4 revs except on slip roads, perhaps the odd A/B road, and on a track. (assuming they're not being driven by a nob) so this test should be irrelevant, it should be taken at idle and, say 3.5k revs or something like that.

Its those people who have put huge wet fart sounding exhuasts on their 'hot hatches' who should be hit by this kind of intervention, and quite rightly too.
 
As subjective as it is, they should really consider marking up a list of vehicles such as chavy clio's etc that can't go over the dcb limit so we don't have to have our eardrums blown out by idiots and another list reserved for cars that can go over the limit because they actually sound good (proper sport cars, supercars etc)

Obviously the likelyhood of that ever happened is slim so I won't get my hopes up. Was just about to buy a new straight exhaust, will be paying a little more for a variable exhaust now so I can turn on "quiet" mode if needed.
 
I believe to accurately test the level of noise using a good noise meter you need to be qualified to a BS level (british standard, or bull ****, depending on your alignment to the argument).

My dad has this qualification for doing noise tests at motocross events.

He is one of few who when questioned can provide the certificate of qualification showing that he knows how to calibrate the device and use it, and also the devices own calibration certificate.

Your telling me that every police officer now has british standard noise testing certification?

It will be another one of the extremely difficult to enforce, ridiculous UK rulings.
 
sunny007 said:
What about cars like Ferrari, porsche and lambos?
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They would be fine as long as they were not modified as the owner would have the £ to fight the case, those cars have EU type approval making them road legal throughout the EU something that neither VOSA or the police have the authority to challenge. People used this method a few years back when the Scottish police started clamping down on noise. Basically its the same reason some new cars have HID's when HID's are not road legal in the UK, the UK cannot refuse to register a car with EU type approval.
 
Wayn0r said:
I believe to accurately test the level of noise using a good noise meter you need to be qualified to a BS level (british standard, or bull ****, depending on your alignment to the argument).

My dad has this qualification for doing noise tests at motocross events.

He is one of few who when questioned can provide the certificate of qualification showing that he knows how to calibrate the device and use it, and also the devices own calibration certificate.

Your telling me that every police officer now has british standard noise testing certification?

It will be another one of the extremely difficult to enforce, ridiculous UK rulings.
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With my limited knowledge of the law and prosecutions if you challenged the fine and it went to court and the car in question was over the limit wouldn't you just look a bit daft?
 
Muffin` said:
With my limited knowledge of the law and prosecutions if you challenged the fine and it went to court and the car in question was over the limit wouldn't you just look a bit daft?
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Obviously, what I meant was, there is a lot of 'red tape' involved. For example, what if you bought an exhaust that was rated to be within the limits, but when tested at a later date it wasn't? etc etc..
 
Wayn0r said:
Obviously, what I meant was, there is a lot of 'red tape' involved. For example, what if you bought an exhaust that was rated to be within the limits, but when tested at a later date it wasn't? etc etc..
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I think that for all the times that would be an issue it's offset against training up all of the Police force I think they'll run with it. This is going to be done on the monkeys who quite clearly have bean cans that don't go anywhere near the limit
 
Muffin` said:
With my limited knowledge of the law and prosecutions if you challenged the fine and it went to court and the car in question was over the limit wouldn't you just look a bit daft?
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Couldn't you just reduce the noise of the car for the official test? I doubt they'd impound the vehicle!
 
Wayn0r said:
I believe to accurately test the level of noise using a good noise meter you need to be qualified to a BS level (british standard, or bull ****, depending on your alignment to the argument).

My dad has this qualification for doing noise tests at motocross events.

He is one of few who when questioned can provide the certificate of qualification showing that he knows how to calibrate the device and use it, and also the devices own calibration certificate.

Your telling me that every police officer now has british standard noise testing certification?

It will be another one of the extremely difficult to enforce, ridiculous UK rulings.
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You need to have a certified, calibrated device and have ~45min training to use it but you're right, generally only RPU officers have this. Essex Police may be cracking down on this, but it's certainly not nationwide as far as I am aware, and if it is, it'll only be a limited number of RPU officers doing the checks.
 
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