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[Big Sam]

One of my neighbours is a mechanic and runs a business from his garden which is undercover by a homemade wooden canopy.

I would never be able to compete with him on noise.

It's a rough area i live in and a little bit of noise from a grinder is the least of my neighbours problems!

[Danuneek]

I'm mainly working evenings at the moment, but my dad has to reverse my mini to get his car out every morning, its got a straight through RC40 as well, wakes me up without fail, damn mini owners

Why dont you re arrange your cars?

His pride enjoy lives in the garage, so mine goes in the driveway blocking it in.

Edited by Danuneek, 26 January 2009 - 11:03 AM.

[mini mark]

my neighbours are great they are always saying there will be nothink left if you keep cleaning it. in the summer we have barbeques in the street and then end up siting round in someones front garden talking and drinking and then for the past three years the street has hired a hall out and had a christmas party.

[Scotauto]

my neighbours are great they are always saying there will be nothink left if you keep cleaning it. in the summer we have barbeques in the street and then end up siting round in someones front garden talking and drinking and then for the past three years the street has hired a hall out and had a christmas party.

that's more like it!!

[998dave]

'that cars far too loud, you'll be deaf before you know it'

"Pardon"

[jonnymm]

lol i put my exhaust pipe on and then a sound system and ever since ive been blanked by the one that lives on the left lol but the guy on the right loves it so its the best of both worlds

[Dan6061]

My neighbours love my Mini!
When I put it in the garage to work on it, I nipped out to get something from the Co-Op, and at the bottom of my road (I live in the middle) some guy who lives at the bottom stopped me and said 'Don't tell me you've gotten rid of the Mini!?' and he seemed relieved when I told him it was in the garage!
My Mini's fairly loud, and I've gotten home at 1-2am before, and still haven't had any complaints! Even my mates Fiesta with some big peco exhaust system on it makes loads of noise, and they haven't said anything! Not to me, anyway...

[nomininolife]

To be honest I can't fault my neighbours (pretty much the whole street), they are always asking how they are going and stopping and talking. In fact I had a bit of a to do with our new (anti) social landlord, they said I couldn't repair my cars on the front anymore, just do servicing. The neighbours went nuts when I told them, we have a street warden living a few doors away and he said it was disgusting. I must admit that they lose If I am not there, I am the first port of call if they want anything doing.


David

[Linzi]

Our neighbours who are under same roof so to speak are ace, they love our Mini's, good job too as we have four they have one in their garage rotting away but dont have time to sort it, but love admiring ours. Our neighbours the other side are an old couple, they never complain about the noise from our Mini's and they are rather noisy!! But they have put up a gate across their drive as we use it to turn around,.. well go onto the footpath but not up their drive,... thing they didn't realise is that the nose of a Mini can fit under their gate (tis a big bar thing, like on a public car park) so we still turn around there, have caught them peeping out the window, but have figured if i turn my lights to side lights then they don't notice...


Their daughter who visits them however has a habit of beeping the horn when she leaves no matter what time of day or night But seeing how they put up with our four Mini's and those of friends who visit who dont come or leave quietly to be honest,.. we have no complaints

[The_Mistro]

i have to admit apart from the misserable neighbour i mentioned in the earlier post, all the others love my mini! the young family next door got me a model mini with a clock on the roof for my 18th birthday! they got me an air freshner for it for my 17th, even thought i didnt have it at the time! and the older couple in the bungalow next door wanted to go for a drive in it, and were telling me all about the mini pick ups they had when they were market gardeners!
i have come home at 3 or 4 in the mornings and none of them have said a word about it! even though its being a pain in the bottom and the throttle sticks slightly open at times, and its a bit louder exhaust than standard, a lot deeper noise, which does tend to travel further!

[gregh55]

next door hates me and my dad for having minis he called his mummy and told her to come over, when she did she said it looks like a scrap yard not being funny but he has 8 cars scatterd all around here and we now have one mini outside

what???????? lol

[MGMT]

we have no neighbours!!!

(well the nearest one is about half a mile away)

we can be as messy and noisy as we like

[benb12]

My neighnour has it pretty bad because im on one side with my mini and the guy on the other side of him has a few old morris minors and some scrambler bikes that were both always tinkering with.

Although the only complaint i've had from him was that my supressors broke becuase my car interfers with his TV - I don't know what sort of prehistoric TV hes got.

It's not his fault, we had the same problem for ages because we're in a rubbish signal area and there are loads of cars that would interfere with the TV as they went past, and you have no idea how frustrating it was. Eventually we had to rob a bank and get Sky. It's something to do with your wiring that's causing it.

[emalee]

we have no neighbours!!!

(well the nearest one is about half a mile away)

we can be as messy and noisy as we like

as above our garage is in the middle of no where, well on a farm so we can make as much noise as we like!!! its brilliant

and the neighbours at home there is a mechanic opposite us and has tipped us off a our lastest 79 mini for £50, and a 1275 metro, taxed and tested, with 47k on the clock for £20, so he's a good neighbour, then at the back of our house is a service lane, which another road backs onto, and the people opposite out the back have a mk1 they are restoring and give me a shell for free last year, after he had taken all the bits he wanted off!!! so brilliant neighbours and no complaints about nosiy exhuasts!!! its all good!!!

[minirock]

well.... one of my neighbours is dead and the other is ok with the mini because he has a V12 Jag there is one person across the road who is a miserable T**t who does the same as yours screw him he will have something to moan about when i get my RC40
people dont understand
Cheers James