This petition was submitted during the 2019-2024 parliament
Rejected petition Ban car exhaust modifications.
Ban the modification of car exhausts, so that vehicles can drive past my place of residence quietly, without sounding like an elephant has eaten a trumpet and is having an extremely painful bowel movement the following day.
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It’s already illegal to modify the exhaust system to make a vehicle noisier after it has been ‘type approved’ (checked it meets environmental and safety standards): https://www.gov.uk/noise-pollution-road-train-plane
The police are responsible for taking action if a vehicle’s silencer doesn’t work in the way it was designed or if a person is driving in a way that creates too much noise.
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