[Dave-ROR]

Originally Posted by fistpoint

You don't cringe when you hear a transmission whining around you while you desperately turn your head in all directions looking for the offending vehicle and hoping it isn't yours making the noise?

No

Or what about squeaky brakes? Blown head/tail lights? Personally I find driving the vehicle in question very ghetto and embarrassing and do whatever it takes to correct the issue ASAP.

Brakes.. yes, just to see if it's a car running track pads Head/tail lights are a safety issue and should be fixed right away.

Or what about that squeaky fan belt we've all had at one time or another? You drove weeks with that whining belt noise? I doubt it, unless you lacked the time to correct it.

I replace my belts before it's time, so I've literally never had a squeaky belt.

It's not so much what others think, it's the fact that cars shouldn't be making belt sounding squeak noises when new and not broken and that bothers me, the driver/owner.

Unless it's normal operating noises of the DI system. The transmission thunks too. The windows have an annoying noise when they shut. S2000 diffs make a TON of noise. All normal, and none of that has ever bothered me. Yes, things that are BROKEN bother me and I fix them right away (or drive one of my other cars if time/parts are lacking).

We all have different limits of how much annoyance we can stand and have differing opinions of what's considered annoying but I don't understand why normal operating noises (again, assuming they really are normal) would bother anyone. It's just part of the character of the car to me.