Frustrated Greenbank residents are imploring police to stop hoons turning their suburban streets into drag racing tracks at all hours.
Locals say they are fed up with drivers who are ruining the area with late-night, loud races and burnouts even though police have set up a hotline for residents to report hoon drivers.
Lisa Trenski and Mary Young moved into Argyle Road three months ago and expected a quiet street.
Instead, they say they are woken by high-powered cars throughout the night, with incidents happening any time from 10pm to 4am.
"(Last) weekend was pretty wild," Ms Trenski said. "It's noisy as hell. They hoon up and down, and leave skidmarks."
Ms Young said most streets were targeted.
"Every single intersection along New Beith Road, going back towards Middle Road, is basically a skid pan," she said. "You can hear them getting nearer and nearer, dragging and doing skids."
Another resident, who declined to give her name, said nearby Crest Road turned into a racing track on weekends, with drivers doing circuits of local streets.
The Sentinel Drive and Pub Lane areas were also problem streets.
"They frequently overtake cars on the wrong side of the road so they can floor it from the service station and down towards the high school," she said.
"Some even like to do laps, from Crest Road, down Short Street, back up Cunningham Drive or Parklands Drive and back around to Middle Road."
She was concerned about the danger to other drivers, and the risk the perpetrators posed to themselves.
"It's hard to imagine one of them isn't going to end up wrapped around one of the many large gum trees that line the road," she said.
Police urge people to report the issue to a special hotline, but residents say it does not work as perpetrators make it hard to get details of the cars. Drivers often turn their lights off.
"That will only work if we are sitting out the front when it happens," Ms Trenski said. Drivers are also turning the area into an eyesore by dumping their used tyres.
"When they're done with their tyres, they throw a load of them along the side of the road," Ms Trenski said.
Sergeant Lawrie Catterson said reporting the incidents to the hotline, by phoning 134 666, was the best way to tackle the problem.
"When they report it, it generates intelligence for us on the hoon hotspots and where to patrol," he said.
"If they get CCtV or mobile phone footage of the offenders, they can upload through the PoliceLink website.
