Funny things happen when you work on cars and live in the 'burbs (PIC)
 

Opened my mail the other day, found this.

http://img131.imageshack.us/img131/3631/00003268jh.jpg

This is after a week long wrench-fest when I had stock exhaust but no muffler on one NA car, an EF hatch completely ripped to peices in my garage with the door open till about 10-11PM at night, and an open 2.5 DP turbo ar coming by pretty much every second day.

It made me smile. Still trying to figure out how to respond to it, I don't have an address for it, but in my neighbourhood we have one big mailbox w/keys, so I may post something up on there, suggestions?

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Don't respond to it.

If they're too big of faggots to come up to you and ask you to keep it down, then ---- 'em.

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That's pretty much what I was thinking, I'd still like to call them on it though.

"Dear neighbourhood residents,

Since my cars are too loud during the day, your kids are all too loud. Mowing the lawn is too loud. Home renovations are too loud. PLEASE refrain from these activities. Thank you."

Re: Funny things happen when you work on cars and live in the 'burbs (PIC)
 

you respond by having a HMT meet.

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Snaps. Who's up for a roadtrip then?

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Haha, nice work. :)

Ive gotten a few of those before......

http://img97.imageshack.us/img97/2786/resize18jx.jpg


And the best one I ever got,
http://a5.cpimg.com/image/BB/C3/2226...-02580162-.jpg
http://a4.cpimg.com/image/BA/C3/2226...-026601CE-.jpg

...complete w/ video clip hahaha http://www.draglab.com/media/smokeygoodness.wmv

I 2nd the HMT meet at your house idea.

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sweet. :D

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how the hell does one 'damage' asphalt? unless it was just laid, which to anyone i know means rip it the hell up :)

i forgot tomention: how about the noise angry soccor moms when they make foreigners cut their lawns at ungodly hours of the morning (9am)

or what about teh dangerous driving same said soccor moms do around their hoods? wtf wtf wtf

Re: Funny things happen when you work on cars and live in the 'burbs (PIC)
 

sweet where you livin?

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lol ya, ouch my asphalt.

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Was it just that note, no envelope, no sender....I said forget that.....It's probably some old dude bored of life that had nothing better to do but was to afraid to come to your house and ask nicely....

If it came from a homeowners association and it is in your restrictions then you have to comply or your family might see some fines. If it just came from a stupid neighbor, ignore it, there's nothing they can do, is your damn garage, you can do whatever you want.

I had a guy that got pissed off because I did an engine swap in the driveway of our rented house, he said he rented the house for living not for business, I was like WTF, this aint business is my damn f'ing car.....we got kicked out in about a month :P

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i dont have too many problems with my neighbors, after i sold my system a while back they really dont care what i do, well, at least they dont whine to me about it anymore ;)

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My neighbor had a couple RX7's and he was constantly revving them, burning out, flying around, and ran around a few days without an exhaust on. My neighbors never said squat.

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The best solution would probably be to get MORE ripped apart cars that are louder, later at night.

Ive never had any respect for "letter writers", if the guy dosent have the jam to come up to your house when hes got a beef then ---- em. I mean, if the guy came out and politly asked you if you could do somthing then it would be different. Thats my take anyways.

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My Neighbours kick ass, the ones next door to me are from South Carolina drive a civic and are fascinated with what I do on my driveway, my 2 neighbours directly in front of my house are awesome too, one of them owns a Dodge Super Bee with cams and headers that he just put on, thing makes more noise than a honda thats for sure.
The other neighbour infront is proud to see that I'm actually in a hobby like this instead of out there doing drugs and commiting crimes and robbing people.
Both of them come by sometimes when I work on my car, they both said they dont mind the noise at all, most of the time they dont really notice it anyway, then again I usually finish making noise around 7-8pm and then clean up.

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yeah, my exhaust is loud sometimes, but mostly my neighbors dont complain at all, cus who the ---- cares?

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I have yet to get a complaint and i live in a new development. I think people may be afraid to come and tell us ----. everyone that lives in the house are between 21-25 ;D. We were driving my brothers car the other day open dp at like 11 pm 8). also cutting some piping at 10-12 pm

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my neighbor compalin about my civic sayin its "too loud and wake him up at nite and makes is dogs bark" yet the ------- has a harley and rev's that fucker up at 7am on saturday and sunday for 30min, i asked him why he does that he said to "warm it up" so i do the same now, only on weekdays ;) oh yeah and his dogs ---- in my lawn, so i bag the ---- up and give it back to him.

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I think you should post a note for them all to see:

Attention all residents-

If you have a problem with me or anything I do, man up and say it to my face instead of a shitty, pourly written note.

kthnxbye.


Then follow it up by a massive burnout. >:D

Re: Funny things happen when you work on cars and live in the 'burbs (PIC)
 

I had an old Italian neighbor who would wait for me in the middle of the street with a broom and angrily swing at me as I passed.

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run his ass over

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I'm up if he's within a few hundred miles!

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pourly or poorly? :P

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It was a mailed letter, addressed to the homeowner of the house, stamp and everything. I am going to forget it, for the reasons you listed. Someone has a problem, come deal with it directly in person, or live with it. Exhausts are all on the cars now anyways...

And no, it's not a gated community or anything like that. IIRC city by-law is something like 11PM cutoff for loud noises, which is fine, I'm doing this ---- in the middle of the day. It's eerie, there is no noise in the neighbourhood apart from my house/driveway/garage during the weekdays.

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;D

That just made me laugh.

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Woot Brett my car scares babies!!

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I've just always turned my power tools off by 9pm, and never really had a problem. However when i used to have my tahoe i built a pretty huge sound system, and my neighbor like 8 houses down came up to me one day yelling at me that i was "shaking everything in the god damn house, the windows the plates, the furniture everything, and this ---- need to stop" I just kind of appologized and rolled my eyes after the fact, i mean it was a nice setup, but not that nice! And it wasnt like i blared it in front of my house, i always had it low until i got about a block away, you know the old "dont ---- in your own backyard rule". But it was the one day where i had been tuning the amp for like a minute and he got heated... must have been the male equivelent of menopause... ::)

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It doesn't look to be from a official group or anything, it looks like someone just got pissed, popped out their typewritter and wrote a crappy letter. Official letters usually have a little more info than that like the ones leed posted.

I say ignore it, but you should frame it and hand it in your garage, funny stuff!!!

Re: Funny things happen when you work on cars and live in the 'burbs (PIC)
 

Do an HMT meet and have everyone bring air tools.

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Its not like we were doing anything late at night....it was all during the afternoon on weekdays, while everyone was at work...

i think its mostly from my car running open DP ....so ---- stay at home moms who have nothing better to do then bitch cuz my turbo honda drowns out their "Days of our lives"....

...brett lets tape that ish in my widsheild and do fatty burnouts up and down your street....

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Now I see why they are bitching......well not you but the neighbors

Location: Ottawa, ON :-* :-* :-*

I'm J/K

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Lol....hey i wonder if the trashy guy down the street riding his SUPER ghetto fab motorized scooter got a letter too....or maybe it was from him cuz hes jealous....our ---- is way cooler...


i quote him from when we were painting my car......"you should paint a cannabis leaf on the roof".....end yourself trash man..

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You really should have respect for your neighbors, use common sense to not be an -------. However some people are just ------- douchebags/old people with nothing better to do. An old lady near me created a commitee to stop a kid from riding his bike on his own 500 acre farm. The sad part is the old lady won. ::) How the ---- can you tell someone they are not allowed to ride their own bike on their own property. And it was a huge ass farm. ::)


the committee the bitch formed was CALM: Citizens Against Loud Motorcycles. ::) God invented cancer for people like this.

Re: Funny things happen when you work on cars and live in the 'burbs (PIC)
 

Whitey, weve all seen how you treat your friend's neighbors... lol. That movie was funny too :y

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Those were potential neighbors, thats a technicality ;)

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I dont think its that big of a deal to be idling a car with an open dp at 1pm in a garage...its not like we were doing burnouts at midnight...

...sure it was loud but no louder than someone mowing their lawn or using a leaf blower.

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hahahaha that made my day

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Our association was just formed so all 5 of them try to be toughguys. I've gotten letters for the following:

Kids toys stored in the front yard. ::)
Working on cars in the driveway. :y
Parking my van in guest parking. :6

Then I got a letter saying that I was disturbing the neighbors while working on my car. I saw the 5 douchebags walking the neighborhood at 8am when they were writing ---- up. Garage door was closed, no work being done in the garage, and all the neighbors gone for work. I asked all the neighbors if they were the ones I "disturbed" and they said no.
So I figured out that one or two of the association people drive by my house on thier way home from work (I live on the corner of the main street) and they see the shuttle in the garage when the door is open. Apperantly that's not fitting for thier "Brady Neighborhood" so they start writing me stupid letters. I know this because I called the head bitch and she couldn't explain anything, tell me which neighbor I was disturbing, or which association douchebag decided I had disturbed anyone.
Me and the redneck neighbor are going to the next meeting on the 12th to stir up some ----. He'll be making the case against the nogs that live accross the street on welfare and I'll be making the case of "don't send me anymore bullshit letters about anything for any reason". I figure once they know they are going to have to have an actual occurance they saw to write me a letter they won't ---- with me anymore. The "riding a dirtbike in the neighborhood" thing is a given though. I know it's coming. I've riden every day for the last week. PW80 ownz jooo. 8)

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I can't complain. I work on all my neighbors cars and they help me do stuff I need help with. We turbo'd my neighbor's Subaru and the neighbor behind me bought my turbo EK. The only complaint is that they wanna see burnouts. I don't think its appropriate.

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+1 (Also adults, teens, and children)