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Guess I had better remove my useless horn switch. I don't need it on the empty city streets of Boston, and it's just taking up valuable space and weight...hell, I could shave an extra second or two off at the track without it.

 

Testing my smilies for the horns:

 

Hey wasabe-san,

Most of us have bought the air-horns from a local shop. I know Mingster and I bought ours from Pep Boys. We bought the Fiamms. We both had an installer install the horns. In fact, the guys that installed wanabe's horn did all of ours.

Greg Stevens did his horn install himself, with some help from a friend. He's just way more talented than me



[QUOTE]Originally posted by wasabe
[B]did you guys buy your horns online or from a local shop?

 

I installed Fiamm dual horn over the weekend, but could not find the fuse for the horns. I found the horn relay in the fuse box in front of the battery, but the fuse for the horn is either not in there or not labeled. The horn worked about 5 times before I blew the fuse somewhere, so I know that it's not the wiring. Can someone tell me which fuse I am suppose to replace, and where it is located? Thanks.

 

LOL

I almost fell in the floor!! That just made my day.

 

"Someone is about to make a stupid move, you have two choices, blow the horn or start to evade"

Option 3 - start to evade AND blow the horn.

Also you have completely missed an important function of the horn - driver education. How many times has someone done something stupid and not even realized it - the horn is a way to notify them that you didn't approve of what they just did....

 

Did they teach you the four types of beep message when you did Driving School?

B'p - Hi, how are you?
Beep - Don't even think about trying that!
Beeeeeeeep - Scared you, did I? Now keep in your own lane!
Beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep - WTF do you think you're playing at, Bozo?

Of course, the timing is all important - and these messages only work if you've got really loud horns. Anything wimpy (like the stock Honda horn) will probably result in road rage.

 

Jeez, I couldn't resist responding here. Uses for horn outside of Bieg's definition:

1: Person in front of you sitting at green light. How are you going to "evade" that?

2: Person next to you changing lanes into yours (you somehow got in their blind spot) or even cutting you off. You are going to "evade" that off the road or into the person next to you?

3: Letting the carpool passengers know you are at their house and waiting out front.

4: *chirp* *chirp* Waving to a friend, out mowing his lawn as you pass by.


Having lived in Manhattan for 2 years, I do know that a horn is mandatory, as well. The horn in the big apple is much less "offensive" then anywhere else in the world (even in other big cities I've driven in), it's one of the deepest forms of communication between drivers (*honk* motion-of-the-hand = "go ahead, I see you") and not always necessarily "I got your horn right here!"

And for the times you do absolutely need the horn, why chance it on the .. uh, chance, that the driver in front of you can't hear you (with the puny stock s2k horn)?

 

Probably couldn't be worse that my civic's replaced horn.