A horn quickie

[Peter-C]

Does anyone know if you can use either of the horns off the donor. I gather one is the normal one and one for the alarm.

Cheers


Pete

[twinturbo]

Depending on the spec and year you could have 3.

Use either of the two behind the front bumper. Both if you want a dual tone.

TT

[monsterob]

On my donor there was two not sure if tgere for use as you described i thought they had seperate notes so you get the noise you get when someone cuts you up followed by the usuall gestures and swears

[Bonzo]

Darn, there was me thinking that this thread was going to be a bit saucy :o :o

Seriously though as Rob said, either of the one fitted behind the bumper will do, failing that any old second hand horn from the breakers should do the trick :)

[minicountryman1961]

http://www.wolo-mfg.com/air.htm

I got one of these BadBoy airhorns for my Honda Civic. Got tired of having a wimpy horn. Now people are startled when I blow it. One piece horn and compressor. Easy to mount, I will get another for my roadster when the time comes.

[flyerncle]

Two horns dual tone,one high the other low and nice and noisy.

[JakeH]

train horns? :D

Jake

[Bonzo]

train horns? :D

Jake

Now that is what I would call a " Get out of my way " Horn :D

I can well imagine how high the IVA tester would jump when he tries the horn :eek: :D

[monsterob]

youtube train horns theres one going around waking people up in the states quite funny


i want the mexican hat airhorn but i cant find it anymore

http://www.airhorns.co.uk/
:D

just plug it in to your battery see if it works you need a positive feed and an earth for the horn to work and obviously the switch when fully wired

[JakeH]

Now that is what I would call a " Get out of my way " Horn :D

I can well imagine how high the IVA tester would jump when he tries the horn :eek: :D

haha ye i know a guy who put some on his land rover, well he got 'angry' with an unmarked car and a right royal telling off followed so he had to bin them, illegal for road use apparently :o

Jake

[Peter-C]

Thanks for that but I now have another horny question !!

The switch inside the steering wheel is for a switched earth which the donor does by relays or the alarm unit. I didn't intend to use a relay, but both of the horns have the body connected to earth. Can I use the horn push as a switched live or is this dangerous ?
Hope someone understands.

Cheers


Pete

[Bonzo]

Hi Peter

Adrian is bang on there :cool:

If the horns are earthed at the body ( Only have a single pin for the live )
Use the horn push wire to switch a realy as sugested.

Not a great idea to use a live wire for the horn push ;)

I am sure some bright bod will knock you up a quick diagram if you shoud run into any problems :)

[Peter-C]

Cheers Adrian
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