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It ain't a lot, is it. I'd be thinking a static test would be involve something more along the lines of around 100dB or so at a standard one metre test distance.
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Seems to be a mixed bag of info online. Apparently the SVA states 98dB being the max allowed, whereas the police seem to class around +90dB as excessive.
I didn't realise plod were actually measuring things but numbers alone are still pretty much meaningless. Distance, direction and speed (for a drive by) or rpm (static) have a massive effect. A driveby test from the pavement for example... a near side exit exhaust is gonna be worse than an offside exit.
In practice you've got to draw attention to yourself first... i know plenty of people (myself included) that own 'kin loud cars/bikes* and get left alone by plod but 1) as Phillip they're a 'nice' loud rather than fart cannons/twist & go scooters with an empty exhaust and 2) the owners don't buzz up and down residential roads late at night stamping on the loud pedal
*type/style makes a big difference... old bike, big single/twin = plod less interested than a sports bike. Old car, nothing/next to nothing in the way of silencing with a big V8/turbo charged beetle etc = plod not really interested, corsa with a fart cannon and they're queing up...
In practice you've got to draw attention to yourself first... i know plenty of people (myself included) that own 'kin loud cars/bikes* and get left alone by plod but 1) as Phillip they're a 'nice' loud rather than fart cannons/twist & go scooters with an empty exhaust and 2) the owners don't buzz up and down residential roads late at night stamping on the loud pedal
*type/style makes a big difference... old bike, big single/twin = plod less interested than a sports bike. Old car, nothing/next to nothing in the way of silencing with a big V8/turbo charged beetle etc = plod not really interested, corsa with a fart cannon and they're queing up...
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I had this MOT'd and they never even batted an eyelid. Motobike 'can' hung with rubber joints.
http://www.spritespot.com/gallery/toomanyspridgets/ea65_3
http://www.spritespot.com/gallery/toomanyspridgets/1686_3
A leeeeeetle bit loud.
http://www.spritespot.com/gallery/toomanyspridgets/ea65_3
http://www.spritespot.com/gallery/toomanyspridgets/1686_3
A leeeeeetle bit loud.
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I have to say, if that's not illegal for road use then it should be!
Exiting that high on the pavement side?
Those tyres look like they're way outside the arches too.
Course, if that's purely an off-roader then I suppose anything goes.
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I have to say, if that's not illegal for road use then it should be!
Exiting that high on the pavement side?
Those tyres look like they're way outside the arches too.
Course, if that's purely an off-roader then I suppose anything goes.
I think I will be putting it lower, roughly about the same height as the indicator or maybe lower.
Re the arches I have a set of extended ones which I will be fitting.
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I've seen some exiting through the rear panel, have you considered that?
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Never seen that , will have to look at the space available.
Doh! From the laughter i'm guessing you still got away with a rollocking or did you just accept the FPN like a man?The Police do carry noise meters these days, don't ask how i know
Granted it was a few years ago & i was lucky in that i got a couple of older traffic guys instead of spotty little jobsworths but noone seemed bothered about the noise, lack of a front plate & rear reflectors when i last got tugged... leaving a petrol station 'enthusiastically' turned out the headlights in the distance weren't a random car... a chat about no right turn signs still applying late at night
and my enthusiasm, a longer chat about old/interesting cars and i was on my wayFound this dating from 2010... http://assets.dft.gov.uk/publications/trl-report-ppr506-proposals-for-in-service-exhaust-noise-testing/trlreportexhaustnoisetesting.pdf and there's a kinda cliff notes version here... http://www.the-ace.org.uk/loud-exhausts-cost-cash/
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Doh! From the laughter i'm guessing you still got away with a rollocking or did you just accept the FPN like a man?
Granted it was a few years ago & i was lucky in that i got a couple of older traffic guys instead of spotty little jobsworths but noone seemed bothered about the noise, lack of a front plate & rear reflectors when i last got tugged... leaving a petrol station 'enthusiastically' turned out the headlights in the distance weren't a random car... a chat about no right turn signs still applying late at night
Found this dating from 2010... http://assets.dft.gov.uk/publications/trl-report-ppr506-proposals-for-in-service-exhaust-noise-testing/trlreportexhaustnoisetesting.pdf and there's a kinda cliff notes version here... http://www.the-ace.org.uk/loud-exhausts-cost-cash/
They stopped me when I was on open headers to have a look around the car as they were interested in it.
One of them said it sounded loud (I'm not surprised as a 600 bhp V8 on open headers is fairly loud) so they said they would check it but wernt really bothered, it was well over they said but sounded nice so said have a nice day but put the caps back on
