How loud can you legally have a car horn?
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How loud can you legally have a car horn?
Just wondered having seen this video: where a guy has a ferry horn fitted what legalities would be of doing something or anything similar on a loud theme on car horns in UK?
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I'm not sure about the legalities of having one that loud, but I understand that as long as the original horn is still in place and working, it's legal to have air horns and the like Handy that, since I have some which I'm just persuading to work at the moment. Made by Maserati, and with 3 notes. Someone gave them to me
I'm not sure about the legalities of having one that loud, but I understand that as long as the original horn is still in place and working, it's legal to have air horns and the like Handy that, since I have some which I'm just persuading to work at the moment. Made by Maserati, and with 3 notes. Someone gave them to me
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yeah i was thinking of leaving the normal horn there for standard uses but having a silly big one for special occasions pmsl
There must be some legal limit thou before it's classed as polution or assault or sum such BS surely?
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There must be some legal limit thou before it's classed as polution or assault or sum such BS surely?
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Still can't find much, but there is some issue relating to the sound limit for an Alarm, which seems to fall in to the aforementioned range. My guess would be that due to many alarms making use of the car horn, this then limits the volume of the horn. However, if you were to have separate / additional horns, I have no idea what the arrangement would be.
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There must be some legal limit thou before it's classed as polution or assault or sum such BS surely?
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I'm not sure about the legalities of having one that loud, but I understand that as long as the original horn is still in place and working, it's legal to have air horns and the like Handy that, since I have some which I'm just persuading to work at the moment. Made by Maserati, and with 3 notes. Someone gave them to me
I'm not sure about the legalities of having one that loud, but I understand that as long as the original horn is still in place and working, it's legal to have air horns and the like Handy that, since I have some which I'm just persuading to work at the moment. Made by Maserati, and with 3 notes. Someone gave them to me
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We often fit train horns to trucks at my work which are fookin loud, especially when you're walking throught the pitch black yard and one of the lads decides to give you a blast as you walk past (new pants needed)
I have one of the 20db horns fitted as standard to my subaru, its all very gay i try not to use it
I have one of the 20db horns fitted as standard to my subaru, its all very gay i try not to use it
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We often fit train horns to trucks at my work
Need air compressors, don't they? So fitting one to a car would be a pig...
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I'd heard of that being done as a one-off. Why do you say "often"? Sounds like a common and perhaps legal mod? Which suggests that either the original truck horns were crap (like scoobs), and/or that it's no big deal?
Need air compressors, don't they? So fitting one to a car would be a pig...
Need air compressors, don't they? So fitting one to a car would be a pig...
Running a compressor on a car is not that difficult, you can use a modified A/C compressor, the biggest PITA is siting a decent reservoir
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Originally Posted by CrisPDuk
Running a compressor on a car is not that difficult, you can use a modified A/C compressor, the biggest PITA is siting a decent reservoir
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Originally Posted by Brendan Hughes
I'd heard of that being done as a one-off. Why do you say "often"? Sounds like a common and perhaps legal mod? Which suggests that either the original truck horns were crap (like scoobs), and/or that it's no big deal?
Need air compressors, don't they? So fitting one to a car would be a pig...
Need air compressors, don't they? So fitting one to a car would be a pig...
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They are train horns
http://www.hornblasters.com/products/category.php?id=1
And more vids here
http://www.hornblasters.com/vide.php
They are train horns
http://www.hornblasters.com/products/category.php?id=1
And more vids here
http://www.hornblasters.com/vide.php
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yeah but i wasn't doing it as a woohoo look wot vid i have i was doing it as an enquiry on legalities of doing it which was nicely demonstrated by the extreme nature of those vids lol
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Originally Posted by scooby_si
Just wondered having seen this video: where a guy has a ferry horn fitted what legalities would be of doing something or anything similar on a loud theme on car horns in UK?
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I guess that a ferry horn would be fairly "jarring" so they could have you under Construction and Use Regs!
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