....to alert all the drivers out there making love to their cell phones or simply not looking before they pull out. Another near miss on my short commute this morning. My kids school bus was hit yesterday leaving school. 40' x 10' yellow billboard and an officer directing traffic - both were hit.

Stop rant. I want to replace my stock horns with something louder, preferably a lower tone too. I don't want to add an air compressor or anything, but want something louder that penetrates SUV shaped coccoons. Who out there has done this, what have you used, sources? Thanks!

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'82 300SD - 361K mi - "Blue"

"Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement."

listen, look, .........and duck.

Air horns.............so why not a compressor? 12-V electric horns are about as loud as they can make them, so the next step up would be air horns. Look up on the internet under air horn and see how involved a hook up might be. It may be easier than you think!

Sometimes I would rather have a CB with a PA and a speaker under the hood.

Sometimes being able to say - "HANG UP AND DRIVE" would be sooooooo much more satisfying and effective than a HONKKKKK

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Rob M
Norwich, VT USA
1980 240D Euro delivery 4 speed manual silver/blue
~160K miles

I would love one of the air horns some big rigs have....man you could make someone absorbed in their cell phone call and driving soil their shorts.

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Proud owner of ....
1971 280SE W108
1979 300SD W116
1983 300D W123
1975 Ironhead Sportster chopper
1987 GMC 3/4 ton 4X4 Diesel
1989 Honda Civic (Heavily modified)
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Section 609 MVAC Certified
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"He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you." - Friedrich Nietzsche

Check out the Hella catalog, they have some real good electric horns, there is a particular model for trucks which has a long throw patten, perfect for blasting irresponsible drivers in advance.

Maybe some nice long chrome ones on the roof!

I have been looking at some Hella horns that should do the job at close to 130dB! JCWhitney carries a pretty good selection.

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Sam

84 300SD 350K+ miles ( Blue Belle )

I got a dual tone horn set with an electric air compressor on my 280Z. It sounds like the shrill european horn, VERY piercing, I may put another set on my 240D.

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'83 240D with 617.952 and 2.88
'01 VW Beetle TDI
'05 Jeep Liberty CRD
'89 Toyota 4x4, needs 2L-T
'78 280Z with L28ET - 12.86@110
Oil Burner Kartel #35

http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b1...oD/bioclip.jpg

I want to make the daydreaming cell phone yacker to believe he or she is about to get run over by a Kenworth Tractor Trailer...........that is exactly the sound I want.

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Proud owner of ....
1971 280SE W108
1979 300SD W116
1983 300D W123
1975 Ironhead Sportster chopper
1987 GMC 3/4 ton 4X4 Diesel
1989 Honda Civic (Heavily modified)
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Section 609 MVAC Certified
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"He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you." - Friedrich Nietzsche

My wife hit some road debris and broke the horn in her car. When I looked into replacing it I saw an air horn kit for not much more money. It came with a pair of bugles, a small compressor and tubing and I added a relay to handle the power. They weren't as big or loud as big truck horns but still very loud. I looked forward to driving her car and finding an occasion to use them. The only problem was they only lived a couple of years. I think I saw them at Pep Boys.

I figure one that sounds like its on a Kenworth and is loud enought to hear in the next state is just about right to get them to focus on driving and not yacking.

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Proud owner of ....
1971 280SE W108
1979 300SD W116
1983 300D W123
1975 Ironhead Sportster chopper
1987 GMC 3/4 ton 4X4 Diesel
1989 Honda Civic (Heavily modified)
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Section 609 MVAC Certified
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"He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you." - Friedrich Nietzsche

horns that would make you mess your britchs if you were close when I hit the button. My 300SD has duals and is quite loud but a different tone/not nearly as loud as the '58. I tweaked the horns on the '72 which made them sound better/louder.

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Jim

'49 170?(donated to church in Darmstadt '58)
'58 220S(crusher, after '73 fire[San Antonio])
'72 280SE 4.5
'77 240D
'81 300SD
'83 240D parts car

Yesterday I was waiting in the left hand turn lane for an arrow at a busy light.... as usual cars blast through in the cross traffic after the yellow and into the green arrow for me. .. I hestitated and was glad I did .. here came a guy on a vespa making a left turn while it's my turn... wearing no helmut and talking on a cell phone.
That is a first for me .. never seen that one before.

I honked lonog and loud and expected the "bird"... but he had no hands left to flip me off with.

I'd also like a louder horn....I just can't afford one...

Jay Leno mentioned that a while back on the Tonight Show....he said he saw someone on a harley on their cell phone, and he couldn't believe it.

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-diesel is not just a fuel, its a way of life-
'15 GLK250 Bluetec 118k - mine - (OC-123,800)
'17 Metris(VITO!) - 37k - wifes (OC-41k)
'09 Sprinter 3500 Winnebago View - 62k (OC - 67k)
'13 ML350 Bluetec - 95k - dad's (OC-98k)
'01 SL500 - 103k(km) - dad's (OC-110,000km)
'16 E400 4matic Sedan - 148k - Brothers (OC-155k)

Natural selection witl eliminate his genes from the Human Gene pool in short order if he keeps that up much longer.

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Proud owner of ....
1971 280SE W108
1979 300SD W116
1983 300D W123
1975 Ironhead Sportster chopper
1987 GMC 3/4 ton 4X4 Diesel
1989 Honda Civic (Heavily modified)
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Section 609 MVAC Certified
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"He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you." - Friedrich Nietzsche

Hella air horns are known to fail pretty quickly. Luckily they have a nice warrenty program. The hella 'supertones' which are magnetic with red metal grilles over them are quite good, from what i hear (yuk yuk)

You can see a pair of supertones on the bumper of this Porsche 959 rally car. They are just inboard of the driver side headlamp.

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2002 VW Golf TDI-169,000 miles B20