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anyone change the car's whimpy alarm horn to anything louder? easy to do?

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Old 05-14-2002, 05:50 PM
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anyone change the car's whimpy alarm horn to anything louder? easy to do?
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it sounds like a honda horn... it wont even scare my dog
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Yeah it's not hard. Some people have gotten Hella replacements.
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Default Has anyone really put a hella inplace of the alarm horn, its separate from regular horn

The hella's fit up front very easily, but in the rear, dunno. I've got a set of hella's I've up to install up front.. I may end up using one for the alarm and just replacing 1 up front for now.
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Default I just posted above... I have airhorns in my car (more)

the horns are mounted to the firewall. the installation shop ran a wire from the main horn to drive the airhorns (in adddition to the stock horns), and ALSO a lead from the alarm horn to drive the airhorns.

BTW I have a spare foglight switch in my dash which cuts out the airhorns when i don't want to be too annoying.

it's a great installation!

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Default hmm, interesting idea...running line from alarm horn to main horns..

That's very easy to do infact... Just two wires.. Wouldn't need more than 16ga for that either. Hmmm.. maybe I'll do that.
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Default you'll also need a diode or a filter...

... so that you are not activating the alarm horn everytime you press the horns. it's REALLY annoying when you're in the car -- trust me.
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Not sure, but there's plenty of room back there to put one in.
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Default griots garage has hella replacement horns

<ul><li><a href="http://www.griotsgarage.com">griots</a></li></ul>
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