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OK, you have touched a nerve. Many years ago someone behind me had a horn like the one in post #1. I don't remember exactly what I did to cause him to blare that thing, but it was entirely uncalled for. I came within an inch of stopping, pulling his *** out of the car and beating the crap out of him. I'm glad I didn't because I probably would have been arrested. BUT, he would have deserved it.
My point is there may be an occasion where the use of such a horn is appropriate, but be very careful not to abuse it ............ especially with me!
OK, you have touched a nerve. Many years ago someone behind me had a horn like the one in post #1. I don't remember exactly what I did to cause him to blare that thing, but it was entirely uncalled for. I came within an inch of stopping, pulling his *** out of the car and beating the crap out of him. I'm glad I didn't because I probably would have been arrested. BUT, he would have deserved it.
My point is there may be an occasion where the use of such a horn is appropriate, but be very careful not to abuse it ............ especially with me!
Yeah those train horns are so loud they can very well cause an accident. They have no place on a passenger car.
I'll never forget a Mercedes 600 driver honking his "country" horn at me in the 1960's when I was driving my little silver 190SL 2-seat convertible in downtown St. Louis - scared the crap out of me. He was probably just saying "Hello" as Mercedes were pretty rare in the Midwest back then. The Mercedes 600 and some S-class Mercedes had city/country horn toggle switches on their dashboards.
I added two horns that were originally on my 1990 LS400 to the 2000 LS400 I sold in 2014 - see attached photo. They gave a nice boost in volume without seeming obnoxious. I first wired the extra horns directly to the existing horns but decided that wasn't safe so I added a relay to power the extra horns from an accessory terminal in the engine compartment fuse box and trigger the relay from the positive wire leading to the original driver side horn. There was room in the fuse box for the relay.
Google "horn related road rage" and you'll find lots of news stories. I've been surprised at how often I've been rewarded with "one finger salutes" after barely tapping my horn to wake up people sitting at traffic lights playing with their phones. My wife worries that someone's going to step out of their vehicle and start firing away similar to what has been reported in some of the news stories. I've mainly sounded my horn the past few years when someone was backing out of a parking space and about to hit me.
OK, you have touched a nerve. Many years ago someone behind me had a horn like the one in post #1. I don't remember exactly what I did to cause him to blare that thing, but it was entirely uncalled for. I came within an inch of stopping, pulling his *** out of the car and beating the crap out of him. I'm glad I didn't because I probably would have been arrested. BUT, he would have deserved it.
My point is there may be an occasion where the use of such a horn is appropriate, but be very careful not to abuse it ............ especially with me!
Was it a guy driving an F150/F250/ Raptor? There was this young driver I'd see a few times with those train horns. One time at a 4 way stop a Corolla or Civic and the Ford Truck crossed each other. The driver in the car honked his weak horn to say he had the right of way. He had his window down. The guy in the trunk then leaned on his Airhorns and all I remember hearing is a brief hiss of air and then a BLAST of sound. The guy must have wet his pants as he quickly drove off ! I bet the truck driver was waiting for the perfect moment to use them.
I used to install Fiamm airhorn on all my vehicles back in the day. I stopped doing it when the compressor relay failed and the horn got stuck on . I had to quickly pull over and yank the power wire.
As above I much prefer to avoid using the horn and drive defensively so I don't have to since it's easy to **** people off and a gunfight is not fun and there is a lot of paperwork.
People can react very harshly to a car horn. In CA and likely applicable for other states that have limits regarding decibel level of horns. This is the amendment to CA vehicle code section 27000 that passed in 2010. Amending that horns in motor vehicles not exceed 110db.
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1. Section 27000 of the Vehicle Code is amended to read: (a) A motor vehicle, when operated upon a highway, shall be equipped with a horn in good working order and capable of emitting sound audible under normal conditions from a distance of not less than 200 feet, but a horn shall not emit an unreasonably loud or harsh sound and a motor vehicle shall not be equipped with an aftermarket horn that emits a sound greater than 110 dB(A). An authorized emergency vehicle may be equipped with, and use in conjunction with the siren on that vehicle, an air horn that emits sounds that do not comply with the requirements of this section.
And they are dangerous. Scare someone and they overreact and plow into the car next to them or in front of them. I don’t like people looking at their phone with a green light either, but the loud horns are not the solution IMHO.
Go get the horns from a mid eighties Cadillac, plenty in the salvage yards. They have 4 horns that are legal ,OEM loud, and have the 4 notes = train sound.
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