The head of Buffalo’s Common Council is pushing for a law that would attempt to curb the ‘thumping’ noise of souped-up car stereos. President David Franczyk wants to ban the installation of such stereos as a ‘quality of life’ issue in the city.
At first I though, “shit, another stupid law in NYS”, but then the more I thought about it the more I started to question where you could use a typical bass system without being abnoxious and annoying to everyone around you. Going 75 down the thruway maybe, but even then people do live along the thruway and bass caries a LOOONG distance.
Car audio ‘enthusiasts’ who do it properly are like the Car enthusiast who make nice cars fast.
The assholes who do nothing but throw money @ the local shops because they “wanna be bangin” are the Ricers of the genre. Making a bad name for everyone.
It’s the assholes that have ZERO regard for others (with regards to output levels) that cause problems.
I used to be big into dBDrag and the competitive side of it (with the Termlab pressure sensor and all), but it got boring after a couple years. Even THEN I would dial it down for daily driving and stoplights and such. Not too mention that I’d spent ~$700 on sound deadening (to keep it in also keeps scores up). My last “loud” vehicle (last spring), I used 4 gallons of liquid deadening & close to 40lbs of matting. (I still have some left actually). You’d hardly feel my setup from 20’ OR MORE away. Even full tilt (registered & certified 158 dBs @ 42hz on the dash).
That being said, the aforementioned law will have a shit-ton of loopholes and probably be enforced about as much as the tint / exhaust laws: only when an officer feels like it / cant find something else wrong.
Yeah, I don’t necessarily agree with banning the installation, but I completely agree with cracking down on the assholes. Went over over to my wife’s cousin’s place in N.Buffalo for dinner a couple weeks ago, near Starin and St. Lawrence, and about every 20 minutes some jackass would drive by that you could hear his bass from several blocks away.
I agree, I gotta listen to all these damn harleys at WOT all freakin day and night long. Imports with lound exhaust get tickets, now they are trying to pull over anyone with audio equipment, but they never go after the harleys, it really pisses me off.
Better things yes and no. Right now Buffalo is making a big push across the board, in both serious crimes (drugs etc) and nuisance stuff like this. This is just part of their “quality of life” campaign.
I’m not concerned with opening the door to car mod bans either. There is already a law on the books in NYS that says any exhaust modification that makes the car louder than STOCK is illegal.
when is the last time You saw / heard of someone getting stopped for ride height?
I know one person to ever have had a ticket for clearance and that was a severly slammed mini truck that drove on barely filled bags.
Police SHOULD enforce violations such as CARB, tire safety, headlights and even exhaust. The options to keep a car legal are there. If You dont wanna spend Your money on them, You accept the likelyhood of being fined for it.
