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REAL Air horns...who has them?

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#1 ·
Z50k2 had me turned on to them some years ago with his and I had to have some for mine. I put them on a while back but kind of forgot them in regard to the BBS. I LOVE EM. They are tied into my OBA system and nothing better than waking up a slack jawed yokel when they :censored::censored::censored::censored: you off while they talk on their cell phone. :D :D :D Actually I have two sets as my "normal" horn is a cheapie compressor driven air horn, but the real deal puts it to shame. Even better if you hit both at once.:shocked:

Big fun for stained underwear................................:p


So who else has this set up?
 
#5 ·
I pulled mine off of a 70's model worn out F7000 cement truck. Fits nicely under the hood and get's people's attention (to say the least). :D

One day I may run it through an electric valve so it works with the steering wheel horn button, but for now I am using the manual valve from the donor.
 
#8 ·
Gentlemen.....we must all exercise due caution and regard when using those horns....some people might have a heart condition that could be triggered if you use the horn to much. Additionally, we do not want people to have a bad impression of jeep drivers....least we be compared to New Yorkers for whom a horn seems to be an extension of the already angry personality.

I prefer to view the horn as an 'Excuse me' device. When properly applied you are saying "Excuse me", would you mind moving over so I can get through. A couple of gently taps is non-threatning and is a polite way of letting someone know that you are there.

Unfortunatly, most people do not seem to respond to 'polite' use of the horn....so for those people.....you can't have it loud enough....

I want a louder one....one that requires a second battery just to power the compressor (though I do like the idea of using my OBA...hadn't thought of that)....Anyone remember that scene from "The Mask" where Jim Carry blows his own 'horn' at the rude driver....it blows the glass out of the car.....THAT is the horn I want!!!!!!
 
#10 ·
"Define" dork for me please, I've been invloved in a few fender benders, their fenders not mine, because the other driver was using their cell phone, looking at or playing with their "dork", sleeping, or whatever they do. I had one guy sit at the light in the left lane and his head was down, at 5:30 AM, light turned green, after 3 cars passed me in the right lane and no movement from him, I just tapped the horn and his head jerked up and he took of and slammed on his brakes, I hit him doing 5 mph and did 1555.00 worth of damage to his exploder, just knocked a fingernails worth of paint off my bumper. he had the nuts to tell the cop I came flying down the road and hit him doing 55, made absoulutey no sense, but it was my fault and they believed him but nobody could figure out why there was nooooo damage to my vehicle. (I build strong bumpers) He also jumped out of his vehicle and came running back to mine and jerked the door open, all before I could unbuckle my seat belt, scared me to death, I only had time to reach over to the passenger side floor to lay my hands on the straight claw hammer I keep there. He saw that and backed off, I then told him it would probably be a long time before he would do something like that again cause I drove his rear door up inside his vehicle. There was a gas and go at the intersection and the lady in the booth saw everything and could verify my story, DO YA THINK THE COP OR THE INSURANCE COMPANY INTERVIEWED THEM, NOPE that was toooo hard, it was easier to write that check, well I get windshields for free through my coverage, so anytime they raise my rate for something they can't explain to me and my winshield gets dirty or a rock chip I get out the rubber mallet and have a new one installed, had 4 installed in the CJ last year alone, me and the windshield guy are on a first name basis. Anyway I've had people just driving down the highway and pull right over on me cause they are toooo busy with themselves and not paying attention to their driving and my present horn is not loud enough. Around here using a horn is a bad thing, it angers people, I know this and use mine only in case of emergency and sparingly to say the least cause some people are angry, why, who knows, but maybe they should stay home if they are that way, the guy that pulled the stoplight stunt on me sure was and you could tell it. By the way, I don't have nor do I need a cell phone, it has no trigger, don't read while driving, and I just see whats between the lines on the blacktop, soooooo I don't understand this "dork" thing you speak of, does it have something to do with politics, maybe, and yes I know what I wrote and I didn't start this thread.

BOOGER

"Sometimes Insanity and Genius walk the same side of the street"
 
#11 ·
My ol' Pappy was a truck driver. When I was 8 years old I was riding with him on the way into Vancouver BC. He hated VW Bugs. He'd delight in coasting up to them and getting aobut 10' away and laying on the air horns. All the driver could see was a Kenworth radiator and bumper in thier rear view window. That would wake up the driver and he'd floor it...

Ever sicne then I wanted air horns on my vehicle... but now.. I want a naval claxton. Those are unique, and just plain cool.
 
#12 ·
Dork ===== Dork - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Notice the similarity between some people and the whale.

I can see a loud horn used in an emergency. But often it may startle someone into doing something even more stupid. Like in the afore mentioned incident with the Exploder. The guy jumped, went forward, then suddenly stopped! Being strartled he didn't know what to do. Smart? Would he have done that without being startled?
Could he have jumped forward and killed a pedestrian, or clobbered another car?
Would you have hit him if you were paying attention instead of laughing?
Who knows!
The horn caused the accident!

The big problem is kids get hold of such things and enjoy making a nuisance of themselves. Just look at all the DORKS running around with their radios blasting so loud they can't even hear it themselves. They think that girls will fall in love with them when they show how dumb they are.
They love to blast their toys in sleeping neighborhoods.

I try to stay out of the way if someone else wants to go faster. But as far as I'm concerned, a trucker - or anyone - that climbs up on my tail too close is trying to kill me. Appropriate action needs to be taken. Either a call to the local Sheriff reporting his license number, or something more drastic is needed.
 
#14 · (Edited)
I figured I was going to get a "DORKY" answer hence the question. My current horn, if you want to call it that isn't loud at all, maybe it was the other cars in line THAT WERE USING THEIRS that made him do what he did. No, it wasn't an emergency, nope nooooooo pedestrians the intersection, it is in the middle of NOWHERE, USA, noooooo crosswalk. Nooooooooo cars to clobber, Noooooooooooo laughter on my part, why would I be laughing anyway, and if, and thats a big one, the horn caused the accident, try telling that to the cops or the insurance company. As usual you are not reading the post and absorbing what it says or you would have read, I was scared and didn't have time to react fast enough to stop, or unbelt myself after all this went down, that I only see whats on the road, I consider myself an excellent driver and my DMV record reflects this. I don't have "kids" so they can't get ahold of any of my vehicles/horns and for the life of me I can't figure out where loud radios, falling in love and following to closely came into play here. When I sit at a stoplight, I am 10" from the vehicle in front of me cause I know how people are about their vehicles and how they don't like horns, I said this in my previous post. Everytime I have replied to a post of yours you are the one to "assume" the facts even though they are spelled out right in front of you. I should have said what I really wanted to and that was for you to look in the mirror first, before you replied to this, Have a nice day.

BOOGER

"Sometimes Insanity and Genius walk the same side of the street"
 
#15 ·
I got one from a truck driver last fall to use in our haunted spook house. Im not sure what kind it is but it vibrates the ground around you. When I built the Srambler, I told the wife that my goal was to make it sound like a freight train... Still trying to figure out what kind of pipes to use to get the rumble, but Im thinking I have the right horn for the job. Just have to figure out how Im going to plumb it in....
 
#16 ·
“”””””"Define" dork for me please,”””””
You asked, so I showed the link to the definition. What more did you want?


“””””at 5:30 AM, light turned green, after 3 cars passed me in the right lane and no movement from him, I just tapped the horn and his head jerked up and he took of and slammed on his brakes”””””
So he wasn't startled into doing something stupid?


“””””I hit him””””” You were paying attention like all good drivers do, so why did YOU hit HIM? I believe the definition of the law is you aren't supposed to run into anyone, no matter how stupid they act.

I went back and re-read the thread - sorry, I thought you had air horns, you said they haven't been put on yet. Just think how he would have reacted if you scared the hell out of him with air horns.

All we can go by is what YOU wrote.

I'm glad you are so responsible a person.
 
#17 ·
Don't waste your money on a cheap horn!!!
My 77 CJ-7 Had a cheapie air horn from the previous owner. I took it out because it sounded like a little girls bicycle. My goal is a train or semi-truck horn. Post pictures guys! I want to see how to do it right. So far I'm picturing a moderate hood scoop with the horn underneath. :)

BTW,
Good advice guys on being responsible with the air horn. The goal is to prevent an accident. (Unless it's in the other guy's shorts!)
 
#18 ·
RRich I really wanted "YOUR" personal opinion of what a dork is, I already have several excellent dictionaries and don't need any links.

Nope, he knew exactly what he was doing, if you would have been on the scene and "noticed" everything that was going on at this time you would have noticed that, I'm anal about noticing everything, I'm a "details" person, in the type of work I used to do, the customers were very "details" oriented so thats why I'm into details and I "notice" everything, in today's world you have to be aware of your surroundings and whats going on, or you could be toast in a matter of minutes.

"I hit him" Because his reaction was so fast even the most seasoned driver would not have had time to react as fast as this guy did and I would never expect anyone to act this way, and in all my years of driving I have never seen this type of "ugly" and "vindictive" driving. If he hadn't done this on purpose why did he jump right out, like he was angry, but it wasn't in his facial expressions, and "run" back and "jerk" my door open before I could even unbelt myself? He sure wasn't concerned if I was injured or not, he never asked and his body language told me if I hadn't done what I did he would have struck me. I had to tell him to call the police on his "cell phone" as I don't own one, it has nooooo trigger.

I am glad you are now taking the time to read and absorb what you read, cause you can now go by what was really wrote/said.

If I had had "air horns" I don't think this would ever have happened, he would have been startled yes, but he would also have been embarassed because the other drivers would have "noticed" him more than they originally did and yes the other drivers would have been startled too but not enough to cause an accident in morning rush hour when all the morning "pukes" just drive like idiots wanting to get to work just as fast as they can sooooo horns are an essential "tool" to these morning "pukes", one thing this guy kept saying to the cop was he had to get to work, he said that over and over and over.

One thing I don't think I didn't say was I live in Redneckville, USA and all the "good ole boys" with big trucks and boats have to have LOUD horns.

Yes, "what I wrote", I think I covered everything, did you notice anything else I left out.

Thank you, I am a responsible person, the judge that awarded me custody of my children 28 years ago said this, thats why I was awarded custody, and none of them are on drugs, in jail, they make 6 figures yearly, have very good skills, are dependable, and have good work ethics.

BOOGER

"Sometimes Insanity and Genius walk the same side of the street"
 
#20 · (Edited)
Well yes he was, but, I was more interested in your defination of dork because of some of the earlier remarks that you made about the types of people that are behind the loud horns and I just included a story about what had happened to me and I don't think the outcome would have been the same if I had a very loud horn, my horn is so loud I can barely hear it inside the cab and there is nothing wrong with my hearing. My grankids horn on their bikes are louder than my jeep horn. I had one old man sideswipe my jeep cause the horn wasn't loud enough I guess to alert him to my presence in the traffic lane, good thing I had 35's on my jeep cause they ate the side of his brand new truck up and it was his fault. There are bad drivers everywhere and some of them are into the insurance scams and some of them are just bad drivers, soooooo yes, I myself think I need a louder horn. One more thing too is the newer vehicles they make they tout about how quiet a ride they are and you can't hear outside noise, and I think a louder horn is the ticket cause of the quietier cars, wouldn't you agree to some extent?

BOOGER

"Sometimes Insanity and Genius walk the same side of the street"
 
#21 ·
Yes, a horn loud enough to be heard is important.
The trouble with air horns they imitate trucks, or trains. When someone hears one of those, they will instinctively look for a big truck or train. They may not even notice you in your Jeep, they are more concerned with looking for something big. That could in itself be detrimental.

The musical horns sound like a catering truck or a drive-by shooting is about to take place.

Dorks - I was referring to the idiots we all see all the time - loud radios, Bermuda bells, Wolf whistles, musical air horns, and imitation trucks and trains, blasting them when it's not a safety concern. They are just trying to attract attention to themselves, hoping that someone will notice they've reached puberty.

(He He - I always have to laugh - when a kid finally gets a drivers license the first thing he does is get a baseball cap, maybe because daddy won't buy him air horns?, then he puts it on backwards! Watch out when you see one of those - if they aren't smart enough to put the cap on right, they'll do something stupid while driving - you don't have to watch them for long either.)

Even excessively loud exhausts fit in that category.

Police are finally ticketing some of those DORKS.