The parking lot of my low rent apartment in Kingston existed immediately outside my bedroom window. That lot was home to several ill maintained vehicles that caused an audible or other distraction from time to time:

Hard to start vehicles - Requiring numerous attempts to crank and start the engine.

Extreme high idle speeds - When the hard to start car finally fires up, the accelerator pedal is pressed nearly to the floorboard in a white knuckle attempt to keep the engine running and to blow out excessively rich combustion chamber mixtures and crankcase gasses built up during the dozen or so cranking attempts.

Extended idling - Cars not properly tuned to be drivable until they idle long enough to warm up - 15 minutes or so.

Car left running - This car may have a nearly dead battery or other malady making it probable that it will not start again if the ignition switch is shut off. In between errands around town it is best just to let it idle for the 45 minutes or so until it is time to run out again.

Horn sounding - The way to alert your friend (and a couple dozen neighbors) that you have arrived to pick them up.

Smoke bomb - Pulled out and left 20 minutes ago - exhaust/crankcase oil on hot engine cloud still visible.

Brake time - Metal on metal sound coming from where brake pads used to be.

Improperly tensioned drive belts - A screaming sound coming from under the hood. Probably one of the easier irritations to correct.

Muffler time - The car with a rotted muffler or cracked exhaust manifold. This is the most fun if combined with any of the above situations.

Second and third shift - The above cars coming and going after closing time.

Before I moved out, the fire dept. was called- some kind of do-it-yourself electrical project resulted in a small fire-hours later- on top of the battery of a neighbor’s car.