Make sure you return his "favour" on the 4th of July. Better still why not hold a Cops and Neighbours BBQ at your house on the 4th of July so you have lots of witnesses to him being an idiot!

 

Find out what the complaint is for ie what law is being broken and what proof does he have. The neighbor must prove you violated the law, not just his opinion. Make a video of your car idling for the judge to see. Also, ask next door neighbors to come to court on your behalf.

If/when the judge throws it out then ask for a court order barring the distant neighbor from harnessing you in the future. A civil suit might also be in order for you to recover your costs in defending your self.

Roger

 

i like to change my oil after the cars been sitting because all the oils in the pan and i get more of the old oil out,,so i never warm it up before a change,just pull the drain plug and let it all drip out! do it twice a year once to get the 20 w 50 out in the fall for winter storage(and put in the 10 w 30) and once in june when the weather is warming up to put the 20 w 50 in ,,,, the car never gets any serious milage on it any way to warrent any more changes per year

 

They never charged you?? Just informed you they had a complaint. Don't push it. Don't make an enemy of a nieghbour. Avoid Sundays. Some people like to rest or sit quietly and read or contemplate.
I like to cut grass and work but I did live in a neighbour hood that frowned on working sunday. Moved from there.
Anyway hopefully he never signed the complaint, you are not charged and no court appearance and it all goes away.

 

Norval Im thinking sunday might not be a good idea too. I have been here for 8 years,no problem,Im gonna do what you would do build a custom muffler system to quiet it in the drive.That way I can tune it and set up things when I have time.

 

From your description of your conversation it sounded like you were a bit impolite to him. I completely understand, and I'd be pissed off too with that coming out of nowhere, but when the cop shows up to do what he has to do and you're ranting about what a load off bullsh!t this is... I'm just saying it would've been better to be calm about it so the cop gets the idea that the neighbor's the nut and not you. No big deal

 

I hate it when other people try to spoil your fun just because they themselves are bored, usually these complaints are a result of sheer boredom..they watch the grass grow on their lawn and take notice to everything tht happens, then filing a complaint is some kind of power & adrenaline trip to them. Just ignore him, if you actually take notice to his complaints he'll feel himself a winner and next time he will be complaining when you do something else...

 

See, that's what you get for living in Johnson County

Only kidding.

Maybe I missed it, but did the neighbor ever sign the complaint?

My car doesn't have mufflers and is kinda loud. I know, no where near as loud as yours, but I can still tell it irks my neighbors when I start my car. I try to start it only in the middle of the day on weekends so not to make anyone too mad, but now I only start it about once every six weeks. I guess everyone will be a little happier since I ordered my mufflers Tuesday.

 

He was probably about to get a little Afternoon Delight and you turned it into a scared turtle and just embarrased the heck out of him.


He'll get over it

 

Watch this guy like a hawk now and nail him the first time he does something "wrong".......

If you have a homeowner's association, start looking for violations that this neighbor is guilty of.......

 

OUCH!!

 

Trying to get back will just get you bitter and looking like the jerk. Don't persue it, let it go. Try not doing work on the car Sundays and don't bad mouth him, be friendly and try to forget it.
You get nowhere turning into a jerk yourself.

 

..so just because some jerk has to complain you all of a sudden can't work on your car on sundays? I think that's BS...I would not stop doing what I've always done, before you know it you have to ask your neighbour for permission to mow the lawn...

 

I wouldn't go outta my way to be an *** to the guy. May try talking to him to see if you can work things out... Crappy thing is that's what HE should've done.. instead of calling the cops. But oh well.. you're past that.

As far as 'getting permission'... well, it all comes down to whether or not you're really breaking any laws I guess. If there's a noise ordinance that applies, you may have to keep it quiet...

I have a neighbor with a dog who barks (barked) all the damn time... I asked him several times in person to keep it quite... never worked... eventually had to get animal control and finally the police involved. The neighbors wouldn't complain... just me.... made ME look like the *** of the neighborhood... but the bottom line was, his damned dog was annoying AND he was breaking a city ordinance.... Things are better now, but could've worked out easier IMO... had he been willing to talk to me rather than be an ***.

Could be there's really a problem... doesn't sound like, but could be.... not everyone who files a complaint is just "bored" or whatever. That's the dumbest thing I've heard yet...

 

Well said.

 

Hee...Hee...

I had an a-hole neighbor who happened to be the son of the builder of my house. This guy never held a job for more than 6 months but gets this gal pregnant and marries her. Dad feels sorry for him so gives him the house next door to me on the condition that the son would work it off. The son sits on his butt over the next few months instead of addressing some of the follow up items that were in the build agreement of my house and some of the neighbor's. I got tired of waiting for things to get finished and called the old man. The son got pissed at me for ruining his gig and quits working for his dad.

A few months go by and the son yells over to me one afternoon to stop running my saw while I was building my deck. He complained because his baby was napping. Every opportunity he got he would bitch at me for something he thought I was doing out of lack of consideration, whether it be mowing over the property line or running my car.

I put up with this neighbor for a couple of years when I see him come home with some woman around noon time one day. They stuck around the house for a couple of hours and then left. I was on vacation and out working in the garage when I saw this. That evening, I saw the neighbor's wife after she got home from work and called over to her, telling her that I though it was nice that she and her husband would come home to have lunch together. I knew full well that wasn't his WIFE that he was coming home with...Heh, heh...
The wife stormed into the house and then a couple weeks later, he's loading a moving truck in order to move in with his girlfriend. It turns out this was the SECOND time he'd been busted messing around, and the wife had had enough and filed for divorce. Now keep in mind that at this time this guy was STILL unemployed and his wife was pregnant with their second child and SHE was the one working when all this happened.

The divorce didn't happen fast enough for me, but as part of their settlement the house went up for sale. Now I have a great neighbor who happens to be a cop and a has a great family as well. We get along fine.

 

Back when I had neighbors it was the same thing with the Harley. It's not so much the noise, their just stuck changing baby diapers and your playing with your big toy, the first thing that comes to their mind is how unfair life is and you should have to pay!. There was this 28 year old lady living on HUD supliment next door to me on Maple lane and she would complain insecantly about the straight pipes on my Harley. So one day I took her for a ride. There aint too much room on my seat and she was all snuggled up tight against my butt. We were famous friends ever after!

 

Sorry but I couldn't read this without thinking about this classic cross thread.
http://forums.corvetteforum.com/show....php?t=1016099

http://forums.corvetteforum.com/show...8&page=1&pp=20

Funniest part was how some didn't get it even after the gig was up.

 

sounds to me like taking the person that complains for a ride usually has a positive turnout. It just always happens to be older men and big women that complain about me...

 

okay, that's the funniest thing EVER . . . .

neighbors (200 yards away) haven't complained to me directly, but i hear through third parties that they know EVERYTIME i pull my car in . . .