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You guys are all too harsh.

Coming home at 2:30am and leaving your car running for 30 secs might not seem that bad to you being a Tubo car owner and all that jazz. In fact, you probably loved the day your turbo timer was installed!

But when there is NO other noise around except a quiet (yeah sure, compared to what),deep bassy, exhaust sound (which probably means the whole street can hear it) running for as you put it, 'it's only 30 secs'. It's probably is enough to wake everyone up and would seem more like 5 mins to them.

Sure the levels are legal but i don't think a turbo timer is necessary at that time of night. Just drive home at i steady pace and turn if off as some else mentioned they do.

If a Semi trailer (turbo) parked outside your house and let his turbo timer go for 30secs, rumbling away, would you care? Shit, I would ! But hey, it's legal.

Anyway, don't mean to soud like I'm having a go or anything, just try and see it from their (non-turbo) point of view. Particularly being neighbours, wouldn't you rather get along?

If all the cruises do happen, won't be long before the shit starts appearring on your door handle too I's say.

agreed ... why do you even need to leave it running at that time... unless your flooring it down the street to get to your drive way as fast as you can. creep it down the street if your returning late... if its during the day tiem do what you want.

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usaly takes me 30 seconds to get my stuff together and get out, lol.. or a lil less, and if so i just turn it off after what eva time, like 15 seconds or what eva. and lock it. but yeh, now ive been taking it easy for a bit b4 i get home at night, just to make ppl happy. atm every time i see some1 in my street, the first thing that runs through my mind is "i wonder if it was them who sent it"

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1. Drive off boost for the last 2-3 minutes on your journey home. Voila. No need for turbo timer at 2am in the morning.

2. Take off slowly and short-shift into 2nd gear and then 3rd gear ASAP to minimise noise. Maintain a STEADY speed up until the end of your street. Do NOT floor it to 40km/h and then wave the "but I wasn't speeding flag".

3. Write a letter saying that you don't feel like you have done anything wrong, certainly not speeding, and explain that your exhaust makes it seem like you're going a LOT faster than you actually are. Explain that you have a standard engine, standard blow-off valve, standard wastegate, standard turbo and that any noises from the engine are completely standard. Apologise for any inconvenience caused espcially late at night, but you would have appreciated if the neighbourhood magistrate would have actually signed his/her letter. Make them feel ashamed for not having the balls to sign it.

Attach this letter to a copy of the original letter and deposit amongst your neighbours.

Simple. Respect your neighbours. Don't sh1t in your own backyard.

Haha..

The speed hump idea is ideal - if you really want to piss them off then get speed humps installed, because they make a hell of a noise. My wife was telling me how in a neighbourhood near her, filled with the kinds of people who feel a false sense of entitlement, they decided they needed speed humps, as people driving "so fast" kept people awake with the noise. They petitioned and petitioned, until eventually the council forked out and installed a bunch of speed humps.

Then - less than a month later the noise of people driving over speed humps was keeping them awake.

So, the ideal scenario is to agree with your neighbours, act like a total suckup and get some speed humps installed. Then, whenever you go over one you can make a bump sound and get to open the throttle ;) They'll even say you're a responsible young man for being concerned.. haha..

The exhaust note from an RB should be music to their ears, what are they complaining about :P

Just sound like serial winges to me, as long as they don't get video evidence of you speeding, your safe.

Maybe they want to be on ACA?

You really need to ask yourself, who in your street knows what a wastegate is? maybe their kids told them what the noise is or maybe they would just know, most people in my street wouldn't know what a wastegate was. Most mechanics probally wouldn't know. Try and narrow it down and go and knock on their door for a polite chat.

Ethen

I have to agree with Merli mate. Dont crap in your own backyard mate.

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I dont belive this thread has gone on for 5 pages..

yeh i been going slow b4 i get home when its around 9:30pm onwards so i can pritty much just turn it off.. and been shifting early to get to 40ks .. it doesnt bother me too much to do it, no reason realy y it would.. the letter realy got me worked up though

haha yeh, i thort id only get a few replys, not 5 pages :P

I do a quartermile run pretty much every night on the way home at the base of my street (if my car is behaving right) and havnt heard one complaint yet... Then again i live in the adelaide hills and neighbours are a good 60 metres from rode!!!!!

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