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Old Jun 22, 2020 | 06:16 AM
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I want to make the horn louder any suggestions
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Old Jun 22, 2020 | 06:31 AM
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Buying an aftermarket horn is your only choice !!!
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Old Jun 23, 2020 | 02:25 PM
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Loud is not always the answer. Try the ahooga or ooga horn. It's different and people will take notice. I put one on my truck and people jump when they hear it.
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Old Jun 23, 2020 | 04:08 PM
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Fiamm electric (12v) air horns. Lots of options. Had the twin high note version on a car I used to own. As the note is both distinctive and loud, you will get noticed.

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i saw one on internet horn sounds like gun shots you should see people run when they here them
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Hit the junkyard and get a set of horns from a mid-90s Cadillac or Buick Roadmaster with the 4 notes. Two will be in the left fender, two will be in the right. The notes are A, C, D, and F. You can see them marked on the horns themselves. You'll have to get creative and make a bracket, but I put them on everything I own because they work:


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Originally Posted by Stingroo
Hit the junkyard and get a set of horns from a mid-90s Cadillac or Buick Roadmaster with the 4 notes. Two will be in the left fender, two will be in the right. The notes are A, C, D, and F. You can see them marked on the horns themselves. You'll have to get creative and make a bracket, but I put them on everything I own because they work:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atjVwsfJWeE
Do you recall the part#? Which note are you using?

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Originally Posted by Sunwarrior
Do you recall the part#? Which note are you using?
You use all four. No idea on part numbers. Never bought a new set. Done half a dozen junkyard ones though.

Each horn is stamped in the corner with the note it plays.
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Originally Posted by Sunwarrior
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Super easy to get to. Two are in each fender. Cheapest way to have a horn that people notice.
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Originally Posted by Joe Scafide
i saw one on internet horn sounds like gun shots you should see people run when they here them
LOL.
Reminds me of a story...
I'm a retired paramedic and one of the siren settings we had sounded like a machine gun...called a phaser.
One day while returning to our neighbourhood station, a couple of boys jumped out from the bushes, armed with their wooded guns loaded with elastics on clothes pegs and started shooting at us. We laughed.
I drove around the block and came back. This time though, with the siren turned off and set to "phaser". As predicted, the two boys came out from the bushes again, aimed their "weapons" and with a flip of a switch, were greeted with machine gun fire in return. OMG, we laughed so hard. One ran away, the other dropped to the ground. Surely one or both crapped their pants.
Great memory.
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I have a Wolf Whistle, it's fun to whistle at girls and watch them give me the finger
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Originally Posted by mstromquist
Loud is not always the answer. Try the ahooga or ooga horn. It's different and people will take notice. I put one on my truck and people jump when they hear it.
Even though you're probably right, an 'ooga' horn would sound ridiculous on a C5! Maybe that's just me......
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Originally Posted by sloopdawg
I have a Wolf Whistle, it's fun to whistle at girls and watch them give me the finger
Now THAT'S a JIM DANDY!!!! I can't speak for others, but if I had that horn, when they gave me the finger, I'd probably holler " NO-Not YOU"!!!!
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Never got around to it but didnt like the horn on my C5, looked at euro horns......just louder and more piercing.....take a look at those.
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Originally Posted by grinder11
Now THAT'S a JIM DANDY!!!! I can't speak for others, but if I had that horn, when they gave me the finger, I'd probably holler " NO-Not YOU"!!!!
Now that would be a classic response.
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Originally Posted by Stingroo
Hit the junkyard and get a set of horns from a mid-90s Cadillac or Buick Roadmaster with the 4 notes. Two will be in the left fender, two will be in the right. The notes are A, C, D, and F. You can see them marked on the horns themselves. You'll have to get creative and make a bracket, but I put them on everything I own because they work:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atjVwsfJWeE
Sounds like a train when going thru that tunnel!!
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They are fantastic! Highly recommended.
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