Need a HORN that will WAKE UP DRIVERS!

Yeah get one of those train horns, my neighbor has one in his pickup, it's Fricken Ridiculous the length of a trumpet, haha!

Went to the parts store and they have them now where you wire it into your stock horn. The two I saw were a 2 and 3 trumpet. That should take care of anything that has ears anyway- and in FL from experience, that might not always be the case :bigthumbsup

That's great until one of those old guys has a heart attack from the horn scaring the poo-doo out of him and they charge you with involuntary manslaughter...

I tend to not use the horn much in lieu of the accelerator. :bigthumbsup

Ltngdrvr said:

That's great until one of those old guys has a heart attack from the horn scaring the poo-doo out of him and they charge you with involuntary manslaughter...

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I suspect the old dead guy will be a poor witness. :winks

yeah make sure you drive really fast on Fruitville so the police will rain on your little parade, you live in Sarasota...chill out and remember someday that old person will be you.

Hoosier Daddy said:

I suspect the old dead guy will be a poor witness. :winks

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There's always someone around to testify against you.

Trust me after riding a motorcycle down in FL a louder horn probably won't help you much!

Ltngdrvr said:

That's great until one of those old guys has a heart attack from the horn scaring the poo-doo out of him and they charge you with involuntary manslaughter...

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In Texas (DFW) if you honk the horn, you'll either end up in a road rage battle with someone or you get to see if the ID10T driver who caused the whole mess has a clean middle finger as he so cleverly waves it toward you, even though it wasn't your fault. That's Texas for you.

chadhtx35 said:

In Texas (DFW) if you honk the horn, you'll either end up in a road rage battle with someone or you get to see if the ID10T driver who caused the whole mess has a clean middle finger as he so cleverly waves it toward you, even though it wasn't your fault. That's Texas for you.

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I lived in Lewisville, and for as much as I loved the place (DFW), there's a lot of angry folks there.

As for the horn, I had a BroncoII that nobody took seriously so i put an air horn on it. i wired it in parallel with stock horn. The air horn took about 1/2 second to spin up, so if you tapped the horn you got the meager beep from stock horn, and if you held it down you got the airhorn.

That combo is good for just waking up the guy at the red light checking their phone with a polite beep. If you need the blaster, just hold it down and let them have it.

My wife needed one of those train horns yesterday when (as she put it) a white pig (aka Camaro--she calls them pigs in lipstick) came to a dead stop in front of her at a green light. I guess the driver was too used to the train of 2-5 red light runners we have at every intersection. Had my wife used such a horn, the Camaro driver would likely have discovered his untapped horse power! :gringreen

My friend had a high powered air horn installed on his 67 Coupe De Ville and it sounded just like a train horn. Wish I had it too!

I saw a video of some young drivers with a train horn rolling up to people exiting the grocery store and letting them have it. Laughing at how high they jumped. Then doing the same over at a bus stop. One of those deals where the kids recorded the evidence the cops used later against them. But if used with discretion, a train air horn could come in handy once in a while. :winks

There is actually a community that preserves and collects actual railroad air horns. These trucks might give you guys some ideas. Horn Honking Rigs


When I was young, the NY Central in my hometown used Wabco E2's, a relatively boring single-note, for everything. They had a lot to buy, and I suppose they were cheap. But one local road switcher used a Hancock Air Whistle. Now, one of those might convince the old dude one of the banshees of hell was after him....

I'm glad someone else mentioned the weak horn.

After I got my car, when I hit the remote auto lock I thought the horn was broke it was so weak.

Actually got a train horn priced out for fun, told me around $450 installed

venice will said:

The new 2012 Premium V6 automatic we bought (convertible) has a PATHETIC horn....a feeble "beeeep" :?:

Livin' down hear where the average age is 70+, you need to WAKE UP THE DRIVERS that look and act like they're either
1) asleep
2) catatonic or
3) DEAD!

Any sources you all might have for a L O U D E R horn...?


THANKS!

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I live in FL as well, I hear your pain! Other than locking the car, I haven't even heard my horn yet... when I want people to get out of my way I just push the clutch in and rev the pedal... that will probably be more effective in a week or two when I get my new exhaust .

Finally a thread about horns! Dang I want a loud one too now. Could be my most exciting mod to date. Lets have some pics, err, I mean sound samples.

Man those boat sized cars they made in the 70s sure had some loud horns...technology does not always improve it seems.