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Re: Car noise - can you help?

> That's why every car has a magic "Look out! There's a car coming!" device

> > fitted, Carl - the horn! > > > > > > Very true, but by the time you react and sound it, they tend to be > already infront of you, and while your standing on the brakes, they are > just starting to turn toward you (if they can be bothered to actually > still focus on your directly) with 1 finger already raised, while they > continue on their merry way.

That's why the secret is to sound it /before/ you need to react.

Kids playing on the pavement with their backs to you? Sound your horn, they turn round and see you. Result = less squished kiddies.

-- > The poster formerly known as Skodapilot. >
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Jamesy
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This is one of the things that makes a rorty V8 so inherently safe.

The car may be able to do 150 mph, and accelerate quicker than even a Citroen AX, but when you are pottering around town, the grumble from the sports exhausts is hard to ignore. Children look up and say "ooh a porche" (it's not a krautmobile, but hey). Mothers clutch their charges protectively until the nasty motor has gone past. Primeval, I suppose.

By contrast, I had a Toyota with a silky smooth four pot, the only way to tell if it had stalled was to check the rev counter. People were always stepping out in front of it, because it was virtually silent. That was actually a problem, bizzarely enough.

Of course, the v8 is not quite so much fun and jollity when returning late at night when the neighbours are in bed, because it's damn noisy. So you have to plan ahead a bit if you don't want to annoy everyone.

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Sales!

ROFL

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Nom

Me too - there's nothing faster than an AX! ;-)

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Jamesy

Ah, but not just any AX - only *the* AX :)

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Nom

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