I live right near the ocean, and consequently there are pedestrians galore. There are bike riders, skateboarders, surfers, families, and strollers everywhere and you never know when someone will stumble in front of you. If anything, I tell other people to slow down... I've taken plates and car descriptions and told a few people off, mostly teenagers who rip down my street @ 50 mph. Since I've had my two kids I'm a little more sensitive to it.

Now when I'm off the island on empty back roads, it's a different story entirely.

 

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I get that sometimes, but when they do yell and tell me to slow down.... usually... I hit the gas even harder.

 

I've gotten this multiple times. And its definitly only because the car is loud. And they don't understand that loud != fast. My neighbors are douchebags sometimes.

 

His profile says he'll be 52 tomorrow. If that's true, happy birthday!!!

 

this happens to me everyday. i think the whole neighborhood is always on high alert when i'm coming in. i've been told to slow down by everyone who's ever outside. including a guy who KNOWS cars and has about 3 cars that he and his son track that are parked in his driveway. and this is after i switched to an HKS from my Invidia...

i even had a whole ordeal with my old high school security guards/administration/police officer when they alleged i was going damn "50-55 miles per hour in the driveway." stupid people don't realize how irrational it would be for me to actually be going that speed up the driveway...

 

I got this from a couple of cyclist shooting "slow down"
I was doing 22 mph in first gear going round a blind bend!
Muppets!

 

My S has some loud backfire when warming up. Whenever I'm off to work early in the AM I wake the neighborhood. At neighborhood get togethers I always get a few people to mention it to me.

 

I see both sides to the argument, and I am no angel.. believe me, but if there are kids around or the neighbors are out, I keep it slow. It's easier to simply lift that have to explain to everyone on the block that what they are sensing is sound and not actual speed. Conversely, look at motorcycles... "loud pipes save lives" right? But you hear a bike go by and you think "what a nut" LOL

 

The problem is, kids are naive -- Yes its their parent's responsibility to teach them not to run out into the street after a ball, but sometimes kids don't always listen.

I know I couldn't live with myself if I accidently ran over a kid in my neighborhood, even if I was doing the speed limit and it wasn't my fault and all. So, I try to go extra slow, and be extra cautious around residential areas -- Even if there doesn't appear to be anyone around. Just my 2 cents, when I was a kid we used to play in the street all the time, and everyone was nice and drove relatively slow down the street -- now I often see people rushing home from work doing 40mph in a residential area that has a 15mph speed limit.

The extra 30 seconds that you save by going fast isn't going to make that big of a difference imho. And it could be the difference between saving a kid's life, and being stuck with a long pita civil lawsuit.

I agree with the posters who say people are dumb and usually assume loud = fast. For this very reason, I usually try to roam the neighborhood in 2nd gear around 15mph -- so it isn't as loud.

Maybe I'm just one to try to avoid confrontation and keep things civil with the neighbors -- but it tends to make a bit of a difference when you have parties at your house and your neighbors have to deal with the noise -- or the neighbors have to deal with anything that they could potentially call the cops for. Just seems to work better to be nice.

Some of the posters here seem to have a "I don't give a shit about courtesy" attitude -- I don't think I'd want to be your neighbor. Golden rule man!

 

I had a neighbor that would always yell at me to slow down. The posted limit was 25MPH and I am usually right about there. I even stopped an told him that I was not going that fast, but he never trusted me. Turns out that he is a retired cop and his son is currently on the force, so he had his son wait for me to come home at my usual time and sit in his garage with a radar gun. Five min.s after I pulled in there was a knock at the door and it was my neighbor saying he was sorry. He seen me coming down the street and said to his son " see there he goes tearing ass through here again, but the radar trapped you doing 28MPH"! He was always certain that I was going way faster. I guess it has something to do with the fact its a yellow sports car with loud Invidia pipes!

Whenever I go by now, he just smiles and waives!