Well, have any of you ever replaced the puny anemic horn on your Tercel? Or thought about replacing it? I would like to replace mine. It really is a pathetic lil "beeeeep", barely audible, I suspect, to any other drivers on the road...not to mention the errant misguided pedestrians that feel it is their duty to wander aimlessly on the roadway.
What I would like is a horn a bit louder! Forceful! More like a General Electric Diesel Locomotive comin' down the hill! OK, ok, maybe not that loud, but at least not so pathetic.
An air horn is out, don't wanna mess with having to rig a compressor (ha!), but seriously, anyone ever replaced or ~improved~ one?
Replacing Anemic Tercel Horn
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MootsMan
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As a matter of fact.......LOL !! I don't know if you'd call what I did an "improvement", but at least I have more volume. I took the two horns off my son's wrecked Accord and rigged them up on the Tercel. It's has a kinda funky sound....like the two Honda horns are off-key with the Terc horn. But, as I said, I do have a louder noise coming from under the hood. It got me flipped off from a hot blonde who was doing some reckless driving in Nashville today. B)
1984 Tercel 4wd Dlx. - 192K miles.
1985 Tercel 4wd SR5 - 185K miles (not running)
1986 Tercel 4wd Dlx - 210K miles (dd)
Only 3 to go for the whole set ! lol
1985 Tercel 4wd SR5 - 185K miles (not running)
1986 Tercel 4wd Dlx - 210K miles (dd)
Only 3 to go for the whole set ! lol
Why the aversion to air horns? Mounting the small compressor and the horns really isn't that much more difficult than mounting a pair of high-decible non-air horns. Harbor Freight sells them for a reasonable price, if you have a store nearby.
BTW, if you go the air horn route, be sure and point them down. You really don't want them to fill up with water.
BTW, if you go the air horn route, be sure and point them down. You really don't want them to fill up with water.
I have a pair of GEN-YOU-EYE-N Italian air horns on another car that were on some car I bought a good while ago.
They are: LOUD...espec if you mount the horn part at least, pointing down in an open area....front of the rad?
They don't take up much room ....just an on-demand compressor and 2 small plastic horns.
Only problem I see with them is that they are a little hard to get going in really cold weather....below zero F.
I've tried one of the extra loud elect horns from JCWhitney...I was seriously disapointed as far as LOUD.
They are: LOUD...espec if you mount the horn part at least, pointing down in an open area....front of the rad?
They don't take up much room ....just an on-demand compressor and 2 small plastic horns.
Only problem I see with them is that they are a little hard to get going in really cold weather....below zero F.
I've tried one of the extra loud elect horns from JCWhitney...I was seriously disapointed as far as LOUD.
Give a boy a gun-give a biatch a cell phone-and pretty soon you almost got yourself a police state.
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Orwell said: War is peace! Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength...