firkin
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Ignosce mihi cacare necesse est.
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the new(ish) "safer and quieter neighbourhoods act" makes it illegal to cause a nuisance to your neighbours, What is a nuicance and what isn't will be at the discretion of the local magistrate. Making noise depends on what kind of noice for example building noise is supposed to stop at 6pm and not start unitl 7am. I found this out when some frenchies were building a new health centre near my old house and working till 2 am with compactors! I believe you may not be allowed to work on your car after a certain hour also but this may be in the local bylaws not national laws. Thankfully it appears that this law doesn't apply to those of us north of the border and hopefully it never will!
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dugong
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One Of Us Will Live To Rue The Day We Met Each Other (Wire : 2008)
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Hmm sort of. As I'm still living in the parental home certain things have been noted. Firstly, my folks don't know I have the Amazon Second, the people next door are trying to move (despite them being amazing), so for those two reasons it won't be going 'home' for a while anyway, it lives in Chorlton. The people across from us are very quiet, however that house has had a string of people renting it and the woman who lived there before them was a crone par excellence. I used to have an old skool 306 TD (the same one the Ford garage claimed was worthless and later sold for £960) that admittedly was rather clattery when you fired it up. It was bog standard. One day whilst watering the garden at the front, crone face goes and whinges to my dad that I've 'got one of those exhausts' on my car and that I bounce it off the limiter whilst sat on the drive and it wakes her up, 'I sleep at the front of the house and it wakes me up' My dad tells her that she's talking curse word and if she's that light of a sleeper why didn't she go to the back of the house to kip. She once threatened to call the police when I came back once at 2AM 'because that stupid car of yours is waking the whole street up', ignoring the twatrag in the fully kitted up 1400 Focus who screams round the street with a full Peco drainpipe day in day out. Cow. As the Volvo has never been home you'd have thought it might escape criticism, but no. When the rear crank oil seal went and killed the clutch it happened in a cul de sac facing my friend's house. His parents are the whinging type, and despite me telling them nine times what was wrong with the car and why it couldn' move they STILL went apeshit and phoned the council claiming it was dumped. As the council couldn't be arsed to run a PNC check on it they rang me to ask what was going on (I couldn't tow it out of there as it didn't have a towing eye and I wasn't going to risk putting a rope around the crossmember because I didn't know how solid it was) as I'd left a note on the front windscreen explaining why it was stuck there (I was getting sick of the complaints and my friend's parents whinging) with my mobile number on it. They said the car had been dumped, so I explained to them it hadn't, exactly why it couldn't move and when I was going to move it. I then went on to say that it was fully taxed, insured and MOT'd and if they laid a finger on it I would sue them. They did a PNC check and promptly shut up. About a week later Angus and me bodged the clutch arms forward, and with the oily old clutch slipping like curse word I was able to drive it the half mile to his house where it's been since late December. Happy days.
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Where I live now the neighbours are good. At the end of a block paved shared driveway. Ive had cars everywhere, in bits e.t.c and the neighbours don't seem to mind. They pop over to have a chat or borrow a spanner or two. Its the wife who keeps me from going over the top though.
Before I was banned from my parents drive in Birmingham I had a good relationshop with the neighbours, banging and revving on sunday afternoons- no problem.
A garage I rented round the corner from my folks was a different story however. I had threats of court action, police called for no reason whatsoever "damn good talking to" from one of the "local pillars of society" petitions, the works. If someone had a puncture it was because of me leaving a screw around, if there was some rubbish it was my fault, if there was any noise at ANY time it was down to me. I was there for years and eventually I told the neighbourhood watch bloke busybody Mr "I know the curse word mayor" to go curse word himself and leave me alone. Did the trick. Hes in a home now.
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1987 Maestro 1.6 HL perkins diesel conversion 1986 Audi 100 Avant 1800cc on LPG 1979 Allegro Series 2 special 4 door 1500cc with vynil roof. IN BITS. HERITAGE ISSUES.
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neighboursarthurbrown
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Neighbours? Mostly good. Mostly old.
Only 'issue' is the house opposite, which is owned by a tossa who rents it out as rooms to any tom, dick or illegal immigrant itinerant workers. There's about 8 people living in a 3 bed house (?) and when they all have a car each, it means that our drive is now permanantly obscured or blocked. Saturday I came back to find some rust-iddled fiesta blocking the drive. Again. I lost my rag and performed a rather childish rolling burn-out to voice my disgust. One of the c*nts had the cheek to come and have a go at me. This being the bloke who has been driving without any road tax for 6 months. Grade A-w.nker!
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I'm lucky. We live in a 4 house cul-de-sac, have a driveway that can easily park 6 cars, a decent garden all the way round and fairly nice neigherbours. On one side there is a pair of horse lovers who insist on lighting fires about 5 metres away from our gas tank. We went round and asked them not to, but they continue to do it anyway... safe? I think not! In the summer i'm tempted to stay out until 11pm with my angle grinder when they have their horsey bbqs 'just to prove a point' The others are all lovely people who don't really take much interest but ask about what I'm upto, and lend a hand when a bit of strength is needed A good thing really when we have 4 cars and a motorbike parked there.....
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1997 TVR Chimaera 2009 Westfield Megabusa
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Just to make the thread a bit more positive, when I lived with my parents I was in between someone with an X1/9 and a retired couple with a 60s Bentley, an E-Type and a 200mph V12 Allard drag car. When it was the husbands 70th, he modified a Carina so the steering worked backwards, set up a course in the back garden and invited the whole road to take part in a time trial, fastest time got a crate of beer. The year before he did the same with electric wheelchair racing. The other person in my family with an interest in cars is my uncle - the dailys of the people to each side of him are a Bobtail Rangie and an ex-NI armoured personnel carrier respectively...
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Here, it's see-no-evil-get-no-evil. It's a lot better than it used to be, but there's still plenty of dubious cars with dubious tax and stuff. I keep my grinding and revving to sensible hours and I've still got glass where I should have glass so it must be OK Guy next door to SWMBO's mother (across road, handy, four-car driveway!) used to be a real headcase, never even looked him in the eye. One day working on my Quattro, trying to work out what do do with the dented bootlid, he walks over and just says "You want to put a football between the two panels, and blow it up. Easy. Just ask if you want any help". Smart! Guy a bit further up is a bit of a nosey get, harmless but likes to write letters to the council for stuff like overgrown gardens and overflowing bins. So imagine the delight when he son appears in the paper trying (and failing) to appeal against having his car clamped for lack of tax whilst he was abroad
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Never trust a man Who names himself Trevor. Or one day you might find He's not a real drug dealer.
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J.P
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I like to eat ice cream and I really enjoy a nice pair of slacks.
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neighboursJ.P
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We live right out the country, up a road, up another road up a lane, 3 other neighbours on the lane. 1 Granny and Grandad (no problems) 2. Nice family renting a house (no problems) 3. Cant comment on the 3rd Neighbours. They (AREN'T) like all of your bad neighbours rolled into one
Other than that i have more than enough space. Bungalow plus big yard and heated garage capable of 4 cars, 11 cars in the yard. Then Granda's farmyard is always a backup, currently keep my brothers Polo there. Hopefully in the next year (or 2) build a big shed in one of the fields around the house.
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I've never heard a neighbour complaining. Not even when my wrecked Celica was parked on the shared parkinglot for about a month. Not even when Doctor and me were bashing and drilling on the sunroof of my celica on a sundaymorning and I yelled to a neighbour who was cutting down some plants in his garden, that his scissors is making to much noise and if he could keep the noise a bit down.
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I've seen a bunch of people overhauling a complete wreck in 60 minutes on TV, so why can't I do it in 3 weeks?
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My neighbour I share a drive with is great ;D He is an old boy, but knows his stuff about the classics. I don't see him too much as he is rather ill, but I see his son a lot who is also into his classic. Prefers motorbikes though. He pulls up outside the house and looks just like GhostRider My nextdoor neighbour (the one we share a wall with) is a gosh darn dash! Simple as and nothing more to say on that The guy two-doors-down is cool too. Changes his cars as regular as me. Has a really nice MGB that his always messing with, but he has a Mk2 Golf, Skoda (sorry, don't know the model) and a Scorpio. [edit] Just though about when I was living with my parents still. A neighbour from about 5 or so doors away came round and asked if me and my brother was keeping the matt-black Fiat Uno and Harvest Gold Mini Clubman as they made the road look untidy. We laughed our asses off at her She came round again when our drive was like this when the parents went out
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Last Edit: Jun 6, 2007 19:15:56 GMT by MiniDan
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Hirst
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This avatar is inaccurate, I've never shaved that closely
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Live in a quiet suburb where nearly everyone is either retired, or planning to shortly. Never had a problem I can think of, we know our neighbours all around us pretty well, old folks a few doors down love my Charmant (due to the colour and interior) and gave me a load of 1980s issues of Car Fix-It which I may well scan some choice bits out of one day.
I always try to keep the noise down and would never work early/late on out of courtesy for them.
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RetroMat
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Column Shifting!
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I get on will all my neigbours, i live down a very quite street in a small village in the sticks. Next door lives an rx8, 2cv and series 3 landy furutre down the road a mg midget, next house down a w123 merc, bmw e30 wagon and occasionally a pink rolls Royce and over the road there is a bloke that restores series2/3 landrovers so there is always few of them about. ;D I occasionally get scowls when working on my cars from the young couple who live over the road, they are obviously jealous as they have to make do with an 06 plate Avensis and 07 plate polo ;D
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phoenix
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glad this thread is so popular, do you all feal better after airing the grudges with your nabourly idiots.
my wife is the only one stoping me filling the drive, but my anwer is to swalow the whole back garden with a workshop already made it biigger twice, now thinking of making it bigger again.
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davej
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My neighbourhood is great! The hardest thing I have to put up with when working on the car on a weekend is trying not to accept an offer of a beer from a neighbour! In my immediate vicinity (i am in a terarce of 6 and there are 4 houses opposite) there is a very social atmosphere with lots of barbeques in the summer and frequent drinking sessions! ;D. Most of my neighbours have beer fridges in their garages, i am the odd one out for parking a car in mine! I couldnt ask for better neighbours. directly opposite me lives an RAC patrolman who has helped me out many times when I have got stuck. His son is a paint sprayer too, very useful! Most of the other neighbours aren't into cars but they all take an interest in the shonky old VW's that turn up on my drive...
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+ 2007 Octavia Vrs estate, 1971 Beetle project, 2004 Shogun Sport
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I once got asked by a neighbour at an old place, that I shared with two other guys, if I'd mind not pulling away quite so noisily. I had my G40 Polo with twin 3" pipes and a distinct lack of centre box and cat. Apparently the noise at 9-10pm as I hooned it up the driveway between the houses was giving her toddler nightmares and he referred to me as 'nasty man'. I've never driven so quietly than after finding that out! Felt terrible.
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Never trust a man Who names himself Trevor. Or one day you might find He's not a real drug dealer.
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on one side i have 2 sj413's and their mudplugging owners. we don't talk, as all the adults had some falling out or other when i b wee. comical though, seeing who can rev the loudest after a saturday evenings work! other side is a family who tried to cut a new lane across the bottom 1/3 of our field. strained since then although he throws scraps to my dog. all of us have 3 or 4 generations history on this road though, my mums being the furtherest back, so we just shut up and share. besides, we all have PLENTY of space in the (relative) countryside, although my sheds make a bit of an amplifier out of my yard
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dclane
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Mine's OK but the ones on one side have put their house up for sale and wanted me to move the dented Saab fully onto my drive and not a bit on my grass!
The ones on the other side joke about it being a car-lot, but only when I've parked in the bay that's opposite me as I've only got space on the drive for 3 cars.
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Current vehicle collection: 2006 Saab 9-3 Aero convertible - in mid-life crisis yellow No new retro as yet ... all attempts to sneak one onto the drive have failed.
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fpk
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on the right I have a 100 year old lady who hates every one apart from me and my dad so does not mind it the slightest that I roll up in my rust sh1t box , and on my left I have a master mechanic from audi who is great too, not to mention my dad who helps out
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theres definalty a theme going here with complaints to the council etc etc I'm just glad I'm not the only one its good to hear it goes on to other people too
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chaseracer
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If you have to ask why, you will never understand...
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Very lucky with the neighbours I was rebuilding the Dyane when the family next-door moved in, but Paul pitched straight in to help sort the electrics. He helped strip the XM too and was very tolerant of the increasingly dismembered shell sitting outside his window for months ;D but was relieved I think when the remains finally got HIABed away... Top bloke. No probs with the previous neighbour the other side, especially after we helped solve an electrical fault on his fancy BMW. The new one rides a Kwondazuki crotch rocket at the age of 50+ so is kewl on that basis alone. The woman across the road can be a crone, but just needs to be reminded of the time her builder blocked half the road with an illegal skip for six months...
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