Do you use your horn correctly?

MoneyMate

wba31 wrote: »

I always thought the correct way to use your horn was with a flat palm of the horn hitting hand, with the other hand suggesting what the other person gets up to in their personal time?

I joke of course. I love how the offender to the OP chased him/her down flashing his lights, DISCO TIME!

Somebody Talking About Me ? :beer:

Strider590

Lagoon wrote: »

I've used mine just the once. A couple of passengers have told me that I should have used the horn, when some idiot driver has put me in danger of an accident, but in those cases I've had to swerve or slam on my brakes to avoid a crash. By the time I've got to the point where I know that everyone is safe, the horn seems a bit pointless. I've almost never been in a situation where the horn has seemed necessary and I've still had time to actually use it.

In fact, the only occasion was a few weeks ago. I stopped behind another car at the end of a row in a car park. I expected them to turn left to exit the car park, but they didn't move for at least a minute despite there being no traffic to stop them. After that time, they put their reverse lights on. They had space to go back a little, so I wasn't worried. I figured that since I'd been behind them since they stopped, they definitely would have noticed me. Unfortunately, I soon realised they were going to hit me and had no intention of stopping. My first tactic was to get my car in reverse and back away, but in my panic I couldn't. My horn was a last-second attempt when I realised I couldn't move away. They still hit me, but caused no/very little damage, then they drove off. In that situation I sounded the horn to try and make them aware, but it was probably too little too late though it may have been what got their attention just before they hit me and caused it not to be a bigger hit. After they'd gone, I also hoped that it had raised the attention of other shoppers that had seen the incident, but nobody around seemed to have noticed.

You need a louder horn, mines deliberately loud enough to make even the most cocooned 4x4 driver jump out of their pants :rotfl:

It's so loud that I have to warn MOT testers not to test it when people are near the front of the vehicle

Lagoon

Strider590 wrote: »

You need a louder horn, mines deliberately loud enough to make even the most cocooned 4x4 driver jump out of their pants :rotfl:

It is a bit pathetic. It's an old Corsa, and sounds a little like Roadrunner.:rotfl:

Lum

Air horns are quite a lot of fun for this. I had a set on my old Passat as they were £15 from Halfords and VW wanted something like £60 and a 3 week wait.

They definitely paid for themselves when a (seemingly) half asleep taxi driver was gradually merging into the side of me as his lane was disappearing, one toot of the horn just before he hit me and he ends up on the central reservation and hits the fence.

That said, if you fit air horns and are the sort of person who sits outside your mates house beeping until they come out, I hate you.

spacey2012

I use my to warn "light crawlers" I am there behind you WAITING to drive.
A light crawler is one of those dumb arsed idiots that set off slowly from one set of green lights and crawl towards the next set thinking they are a genius who times it exactly so they change when they arrive .
In fact the second lights have a loop in the road which detects your wheels and changes accordingly so the opposite set of lights gets to stay green if no traffic enters the box from the first lights.
So, you time nothing, sorry but you are just a thick tw4t that has prevented the other 15 or so cars behind you from entering the box between the two sets of lights and benefiting from the next green light, behind you is a metal snail of cars and someone brave enough to point out the stupidity of light crawling with the horn. :mad::mad::mad::mad:

Strider590

Lagoon wrote: »

It is a bit pathetic. It's an old Corsa, and sounds a little like Roadrunner.:rotfl:

Yeah, mines a Vectra..... The standard single tone horn is probably the same as yours, quite pathetic.

My air horns takes a second for the compressor to spin up, so I get a very brief blast of the old before the twins kick in, the difference is black and white.

jase1

Strider590 wrote: »

Yeah, mines a Vectra..... The standard single tone horn is probably the same as yours, quite pathetic.

The single-tone horn in our Mitsubishi is a sad pathetic little thing as well... Roadrunner is a perfect description!

At least the Mondeo has a half-decent two-tone.

izools

Strider590 wrote: »

Yeah, mines a Vectra..... The standard single tone horn is probably the same as yours, quite pathetic.

My air horns takes a second for the compressor to spin up, so I get a very brief blast of the old before the twins kick in, the difference is black and white.

Which air horn did you go for?

I had a twin-air in a previous car and it came in very useful when at Countess Wear Roundabout when for four consecutive changes of the lights I was prevented from taking my exit due to ****tards queuing up in the yellow box.

Didn't stop them, but made me feel better

dibuzz

Round here horns seem to be used instead of getting out of the car and ringing the doorbell, particularly by taxi drivers or to say goodbye to whoever's house you are pulling away from.

Strider590

izools wrote: »

Which air horn did you go for?

I had a twin-air in a previous car and it came in very useful when at Countess Wear Roundabout when for four consecutive changes of the lights I was prevented from taking my exit due to ****tards queuing up in the yellow box.

Didn't stop them, but made me feel better

Mine are identical to the one's marketed under the "Ring" brand, with some careful searching, checking and comparing photographs, I found the unbranded version on Ebay for about £15-£20.
It wasn't the horn I wanted (The 140db Nautilus), but it was all that would fit the space.
But it's probably just as loud because the long air hose let me mount the end of each horn facing downward out of the engine bay instead of being muffled by the bonnet lining.

The worst thing was fitting...... Hacking into the fuse box wiring underneath the battery tray and then making a custom sized L bracket to attach to the steal brackets for the bumper re-enforcement beam between the radiator and grill. Fortunately the battery tray is sized for a diesel, so there was room for the compressor in the corner after making a hole for the air hose.

I intend to fit the same to ever car I own in future.