Car horns and the law

[FunkyNige]

Hi
I'm thinking of buying a couple of air horns for my car (fed up of people taking the piss out of my 'excuse me please' single tone job), and was just wondering what the law says on horns.
Anyone know?
Anyone know where I can get air hornds from?
Nige.

[GreenV8S]

FunkyNige said:

Hi I'm thinking of buying a couple of air horns for my car (fed up of people taking the piss out of my 'excuse me please' single tone job), and was just wondering what the law says on horns. Anyone know? Anyone know where I can get air hornds from? Nige.

Can't point you at the law so this could be rubbish, but as I understand it you can have any horn you like as long as it makes a continuous steady noise i.e. doesn't play tunes etc. I've got bog standard aftermarket twin air horns on mine which cost about ten quid.

[DennisTheMenace]

A mate of mine has a set of train horns on his tractor need a powerfull compressor to drive them though

[ribol]

There is a year of car manufacture after which you cannot fit musical horns, not sure but 1972 rings a bell. You cannot have any two tones like emergency services. Other than that as far as I know you can fit what you want.


Ivan

>> Edited by ribol on Friday 25th July 08:17

[FourWheelDrift]

ribol said:

There is a year of car manufacture after which you cannot fit musical horns, not sure but 1972 rings a bell. You cannot have any two tomes like emergency services. Other than that as far as I know you can fit what you want. Ivan

But what about all those Cortina's/Capri's/Hunters/Maxis I used to see as a boy that played "Dixie", as in the Dukes of Hazzard?

They were made after 1972 or is this a more recent law change? Like a "Good taste ammendment".

[ribol]

The Dixie, La Cucaracha etc bad taste horns are probably still available today but you cannot fit them to your F360 etc because it is built after 1972 (assuming that is the right year - bit of a guess, but not far out). We used to fit them in those days quite regularily as well as wolf whistles that worked off the inlet manifold vacuum.

This is the only reason drivers of F360s, Vanquish and F1s don't have them fitted. It has nothing to do with bad taste - honest

Ivan

[**999**]

Con and Use Regs said:

37(2) Subject to paragraph (6), the sound emitted by any horn, other than a reversing alarm, boarding aid alarm or a two-tone horn, fitted to a wheeled vehicle first used on or after 1st August 1973 shall be continuous and uniform and not strident, unless provided for in paragraph (6).

That'll be the date you're looking for.

**999**

[chrisgr31]

I fitted one of those aerosol fog horns to my push bike once as I was fet up with people pulling out in front of me. Next time someone pulled out in front of me I gave them a blast of the horn, they slammed on their brakes and I promptly hit their now stationary car!

[mel]

One of my clients makes Ice Cream van jingles that are digital "copies" of the music box type ones, what it does mean is that the chip in them in capable of taking pretty much any tune/sound/noise you can think of, he'll put it on there if thats what float your boat

[planetdave]

Any reasonably large motor spares shop should have some in stock.
I got a triple air horn jobbie for £12.50.

Just not got round to...............

[sidekick]

Got a "Ring" (fnarr) twin airhorn from Halfords for £20 (so it'll be about a tenner anywhere else) as I was fed up with the pathetic noise the standard fit item made on my car. Fitted it in about an hour and 1) it makes a great noise (very Italian sports car like) and 2) people definitely get out of the way a lot quicker than before. All I need now is a megaphone with a "get out of the fcuking way numpty" recording playing thru it .

[X000 XXX]

I believe you can place air horns on any vehicle but multiple note ones can go only on cars registered before 1974 (or thereabouts)

[brigadier]

What about each of us getting air horns so we may sound our support when passing a talivan

Mind you, it could be dangerous if the operator has a heart condition

brigadier

[cortinaman]

FourWheelDrift said:

But what about all those Cortina's/Capri's/Hunters/Maxis I used to see as a boy that played "Dixie", as in the Dukes of Hazzard?[/quote]


i have a set of 'dixie' horns that i was going to put on my cortina.........