My new dixie horn

landowner said:

I had some on an old Mini and they were a lot slower than that
The tune sounds about right but its way too fast, horns not blowing as they should

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the_wolf said:

Lol it works now. That's funny as fook

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jbenekeorr said:

Any ideas how to slow it down? Obviously the tune is the wrong one, but I assume the Dixie one will be equally quick.



Glad it entertained you! Lol!!!

Lucky I didn't hook it up to the main horn button - wouldn't display my anger very well if someone cuts me up!!!

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Iann said:

are these a proper set of air horns like wot they used to sell us boy racers
Or a electric gizzmo

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nickp3003 said:

I quite fancy fitting a ships fog horn to the roof, no idiot would cut you up and be able to hear for a few weeks after

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blackstrat said:

I had thought of doing this myself but had an even more 'off the wall' idea so now I'm on the lookout for pucker ice cream van tones for my 90

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nickp3003 said:

I quite fancy fitting a ships fog horn to the roof, no idiot would cut you up and be able to hear for a few weeks after

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jbenekeorr said:

Hi all,

My inner redneck fancied a Dixie horn! So bought one from eBay.

Fitted today using a couple of offcuts of wood sprayed black (see, even the install is redneck style!). The length of the tubing they give you is pathetic, around 60cm for 5 horns. Luckily my dad had some spare tubing. I've fixed it to the inner wing on the drivers side.

Wired up a push button which I installed in one of the switch blanks.

The install took around 5 hours as I had to throw tools around in the garage for part of that. None of my saws can cut in a straight line (or is that the operator at fault....)

Took it away from the neighbours to give it my first test.



Errr that doesn't sound like the general lee!


They've sent the wrong horn that's La Cucaracha!!! I've sent a very stern email to the eBay seller to get the right one! Obviously this one is out the packaging and scuffed up from the install so they'd better just send the correct one.

I also notice that it plays really fast - from what I've read, it can be slowed down by using a thinner gauge of wire - is that correct?


Maybe I'll just have to roll with it and get a sombrero if not!!!

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West Slope Rover said:

If you lived here in the USA, the "Dixie" would get you into boat loads of trouble with the PC Police.

However, "La Cucaracha" would been seen as a celebration of diversity.

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Dan_Trials said:

That's cool, really like it! A mate of mine found it a pain to have to hold the button for the correct length of time to complete the tune so he wired in some other bits out of a door bell or something so you just give it a quick press and it plays the full tune then stops. Pretty handy as you can have the horn going and then use the same hand to display your appreciation for the other driver's driving manners and still hold your beer.

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