leaving cars idling
Submitted: Friday, Dec 10, 2004 at 17:59
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petza
hi guys, got a
young idoit living next door with a little 3 cylinder thing which has a exhaust bigger then the car nearly, i have a name for him but we wont go there, lol, the thing is he starts it up early morning an leaves it idling for half an hour says he was told to. the drone drives me mad. when i was
young i was told not to leave petrol engines idling for to long as not good for them, is this still the case
Reply By: Baz (NSW) - Friday, Dec 10, 2004 at 18:27
Friday, Dec 10, 2004 at 18:27
Just go next door and turn it off or ask him not to do it and give him proof that he doesn't have too idle his car for that long, those days are gone apart from rotories and it's only two minutes.
What a halfwit tell him to give himself an uppercut too.
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Reply By: Member - David E (WA) - Friday, Dec 10, 2004 at 18:36
Friday, Dec 10, 2004 at 18:36
See if he will let you look in his car handbook chances are it will tell him to drive the car steadaly till it warms up not idle it - Toyota handbooks certainly tell you this
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Reply By: Top Cat - Friday, Dec 10, 2004 at 18:36
Friday, Dec 10, 2004 at 18:36
3 cylinders????
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Follow Up By: Baz (NSW) - Friday, Dec 10, 2004 at 18:38
Friday, Dec 10, 2004 at 18:38
Diahatsu Charade i'm assuming !!
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Reply By: GO_OFFROAD - Friday, Dec 10, 2004 at 18:40
Friday, Dec 10, 2004 at 18:40
All modern engines, and most older ones wear worst when cold,a nd not up to the tolerances yet, and should be driven to get up to temp as quickly as possible, to save wear.
Idling it to "warm it up" actually takes longer to get it warm, and causes more wear.
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Reply By: ev700 - Friday, Dec 10, 2004 at 19:09
Friday, Dec 10, 2004 at 19:09
He does it because he likes listening to it. It's a petrolhead thing.
Join him. You need one you like listening to.
Purchase an outboard - everybody knows they have to be run regukarly to keep them in trim and for the fresh
water flush. A twostroke with a bit more oil added than necessary will kill mozzies and scatter the crows.
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Follow Up By: Member - Brian (Gold Coast) - Friday, Dec 10, 2004 at 19:26
Friday, Dec 10, 2004 at 19:26
ev700
Priceless, bloody priceless!!
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Reply By: hoyks - Friday, Dec 10, 2004 at 19:17
Friday, Dec 10, 2004 at 19:17
I'm sure there are people around that would be more than happy to take it away for him. Leaving it running in the driveway is not the best idea if he plans to keep it.
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Reply By: Truckster (Vic) - Friday, Dec 10, 2004 at 19:35
Friday, Dec 10, 2004 at 19:35
Go and stick a brick on the accelerator ....
he wont get a chance to do it again
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Reply By: Member Eric - Friday, Dec 10, 2004 at 19:45
Friday, Dec 10, 2004 at 19:45
Invite us for a beer to your place , garanteed fix lol
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Reply By: theshadows - Friday, Dec 10, 2004 at 19:48
Friday, Dec 10, 2004 at 19:48
call the police . Its an offence to leave a vechile running while there is nobody iss in it. the offence is laveing a vechile unsecured. i believe its a 3 pointer.
shadow
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Reply By: Member - Jimbo (VIC) - Friday, Dec 10, 2004 at 19:54
Friday, Dec 10, 2004 at 19:54
Remember the old Holdens with the metal horn rim?
A bloke who lived in a block of flats was constantly woken at 6 am by a clown who arrived to pick up a mate for work and leaned on the horn until his mate came out.
This chap got so sick of it, one morning he bolted outside, tore the car door open and ripped the horn rim off the steering wheel.
Problem solved.
Think laterally and and modify this technique.
Failing that I'll join Eric for a beer and "persuade" this fool.
Cheers,
Jim.
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Reply By: motherhen - Friday, Dec 10, 2004 at 20:04
Friday, Dec 10, 2004 at 20:04
Tell the local hoons that it's there going free - might get it off your block permanently
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Reply By: Member - Crazie (VIC) - Friday, Dec 10, 2004 at 20:50
Friday, Dec 10, 2004 at 20:50
Bananas, tomatoes or if the exhaust is that big a pinepapple.......... Sounds like my old neighbour, do you live in Mt ida ave hawthorn east hahaha
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Reply By: Terry - Friday, Dec 10, 2004 at 21:38
Friday, Dec 10, 2004 at 21:38
Mate of
mine had the same problem.
Young kid idling a hotted up HSV Commodore with exhaust out of a D9 Cat and doof doof music at full blast at 5am every morning.He and fellow neighbours tried the civilised approach but to no avail.So he decided to fight fire with fire and parked his air start Mack outside everday for a week and dragged himself out there at 4 am to crank it over.Kid sort of got the message didn`t idle it as long but still kept the doof doof music going so another neighbour broke into the car and pinched the doof doof music and replaced it with Perry Como lol.
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Follow Up By: Member - Jimbo (VIC) - Friday, Dec 10, 2004 at 22:31
Friday, Dec 10, 2004 at 22:31
A short sharp "left" would have been more effective.
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Reply By: Savvas - Friday, Dec 10, 2004 at 22:41
Friday, Dec 10, 2004 at 22:41
Just report him to the EPA.
They will send him a summons to have the vehicle presented for a noise emissions test. If it fails, he gets fined something like $2000.
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Follow Up By: Savvas - Friday, Dec 10, 2004 at 22:42
Friday, Dec 10, 2004 at 22:42
That's assuming you're in NSW. Not sure about other states.
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Follow Up By: Wazza (Vic) - Saturday, Dec 11, 2004 at 17:09
Saturday, Dec 11, 2004 at 17:09
In Victoria you get a warning letter if another person dobs you in. I got one for my diesel after a 'concerned citizen' dobbed me in for excessive smoke, must have been when i booted it from idle, as it is the only time it smokes. There was no need for a pollution test or anything, just a letter from the EPA saying I should get a tune up. Maybe different for noise pollution as you say Savvas.
But yeah, good idea. Report him to the EPA and the notice he will get in the mail will say where the incident took place. It will show on the notice as his own address is where he was dobbed in from, so he should get the hint.
If it fails in Victoria, there is no fine, just a week or two to get it fixed and retested.
Well, that was what happened when my old V8 commodore with straight through exhaust got pulled over by the cops. Was a much more pleasant car to drive after I put a muffler back on it anyway...
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Reply By: Utemad - Saturday, Dec 11, 2004 at 09:50
Saturday, Dec 11, 2004 at 09:50
You could always do the neighbourly thing and give him a cup of sugar.
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Reply By: Member - Luxoluk - Saturday, Dec 11, 2004 at 20:12
Saturday, Dec 11, 2004 at 20:12
Give a donation of two stroke mix to the
tank and then report him to the EPA. "Told ya you shouldn't let it idle...just clogs em up".
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Reply By: ev700 - Sunday, Dec 12, 2004 at 00:12
Sunday, Dec 12, 2004 at 00:12
Petza
Stick nozzle of Space Invader into exhaust pipe and press trigger fo a few seconds.
Maybe this polyurethane filler has a different name in your neck of the woods. The local hardware bloke cxould help.
EV700
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Follow Up By: Member - Bradley- Sunday, Dec 12, 2004 at 11:46
Sunday, Dec 12, 2004 at 11:46
EV you are a man after my own heart, yes a little spray up the pipe into the muffler during the night with the long nozzle does the trick nicely, Oh and there is always the small $2 clamp placed on the fuel line underneath back near the
tank, keeps em guessing for ages..
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Follow Up By: Noosa Bushtrackers - Sunday, Dec 12, 2004 at 13:15
Sunday, Dec 12, 2004 at 13:15
Seems like a lot of devious minds on this site. (Big smiles)
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Follow Up By: Terry - Tuesday, Dec 14, 2004 at 14:49
Tuesday, Dec 14, 2004 at 14:49
Brake fluid up the exhaust does a good job too
Get one of those big syringes used for putting oil in gearboxes/diffs with a length of garden hose long enough to get enough brake fluid right up into the rear muffler.After about 5 minutes of the car running it gradually starts smoking like a steam train going down the road
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Reply By: floyd - Monday, Dec 13, 2004 at 12:27
Monday, Dec 13, 2004 at 12:27
crimp the fuel line with a pair of multi grips in a place that is difficult to see. Fuel line squashes easily and it takes mechanics ages to find it.
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Reply By: G.T. - Tuesday, Dec 14, 2004 at 15:26
Tuesday, Dec 14, 2004 at 15:26
Print off all the responses and put into his letter box. May help him to decide that he is out of order. Regards G.T.
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