There’s usually a pretty obvious difference though. I was never mad at the ‘98 Accord next door that made a super high pitched scream in the morning because one of its belts was dying. I am always mad at the F-150 whose engine shakes the whole apartment building.

i got pulled over at about 9pm on an interstate in south dakota for having too loud of a car because I couldn't yet afford to fix my busted muffler. The ridiculousness of that is lost on many who don't know that an interstate in south dakota is absolutely barren for miles in any direction except for the billboards. The only thing I could have been disturbing was the empty fields of prairie grass or tumbleweeds. I ended up getting a ticket for it too.

In cases like these it's the context that matters: where i live most people are employed in the construction industry, so every day you hear big IVECO trucks at 6am shaking the ground; but no one is mad at them because it's just some poor soul trying to get to work, and trust me, you can't make trucks of that size loaded to the limit with cement pallets quiet. On the other hand when you get that one idiot with no muffler and 5 speakers in each door, you can't not hate them, since they are doing it SPECIFICALLY to piss off everyone in a 100m radius