Dixie Horn

Post by **mmjosh** » Mon Oct 26, 2009 8:04 am

hi i have just bought a dixie horn of ebay and i want to know how i install it it has the compressor,relay,brackets,piping and horns and i wanted to know how i go about wiring it up to my morris minor

cheers josh

Post by **bmcecosse** » Mon Oct 26, 2009 2:53 pm

Don't think it's 'legal' to use on the Highway! Surely it came with instructions ? But basically - power from a fuse into a switch - from switch to compressor - from compressor to earth. Best retain the standard horn for MOT and normal use.

Post by **ASL642** » Mon Oct 26, 2009 2:58 pm

Police don't like them!

Post by **MarkyB** » Mon Oct 26, 2009 5:42 pm

Fit a separate push button for it so you have the choice of which one to use.
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Post by **LouiseM** » Mon Oct 26, 2009 6:34 pm

Don't think it's 'legal' to use on the Highway!

You need to retain the standard horn for mot purposes and normal use and in any event a horn must only be used to warn other road users of your presence, and not when the car is stationary. Seems a bit pointless to go all the trouble of fitting these if you won't actually get the opportunity to use them. Or you you planning to use the car in a 'Dukes of Hazzard' style event at car shows?

Post by **autolycus** » Mon Oct 26, 2009 7:07 pm

Don't tell him. Then we may be spared the sound of another ****ock showing off.

Post by **mmjosh** » Mon Oct 26, 2009 7:27 pm

i am having the original horn as well i am not going to shw off just want one for a bit of fun and autolycus cant anyone have any fun

Post by **sgray** » Mon Oct 26, 2009 7:58 pm

There's a lad in my village who has 'updated' his fiesta with a dixie horn and thinks it's great to have fun in the early hours of the morning to announce the fact he's home.
I must be getting old

Post by **mmjosh** » Mon Oct 26, 2009 8:01 pm

no im not like that thats just stupid all i want it for is at the shows

Post by **andrew.searston** » Mon Oct 26, 2009 9:22 pm

autolycus you could say that about a klaxon or any other horn for that matter. just a bit of harmless fun with in reason of course.
i have a klaxon on mine!!!!!

Post by **bmcecosse** » Mon Oct 26, 2009 10:06 pm

Klaxon is fine - it's the 'multi-tone' thing that makes the Dixie horn illegal. An air horn is perfectly legal - provided all the trumpets sound together - not in a sequence. The idea of course is to stop folks pretending to be Police cars - with MEE MAW horns. I doubt the cops would have Dixie horns (in this country anyway - anything possible in the States) - but rules is rules.

Post by **mmjosh** » Mon Oct 26, 2009 10:20 pm

aslong as it is befor 1972/3 and not two tone horns they are legal

Post by **bmcecosse** » Mon Oct 26, 2009 10:25 pm

Where do you get that Josh ?

Post by **badobsession** » Mon Oct 26, 2009 10:29 pm

legal on pre 71 cars ....
but use just for a bit of fun ..........

Post by **mmjosh** » Mon Oct 26, 2009 10:36 pm

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index ... 822AAZY0AM have a look at this link

Post by **autolycus** » Mon Oct 26, 2009 11:10 pm

mmjosh wrote:i am having the original horn as well i am not going to shw off just want one for a bit of fun and autolycus cant anyone have any fun

Have as much fun as you like, provided that you are sure that your fun doesn't spoil anyone else's peace or pleasure. If you're at a certain sort of show, or on your own, miles from anywhere, fine. But many users of these devices seem incapable of thus restricting their pleasure, in much the same way that owners of cars with "music" systems having claimed outputs rather greater than the typical nuclear power station feel that the rest of us should share the "fun" of their vibrators - or whatever their systems are a substitute for.

Just think how much faster your car would go, or how much less petrol you'd use, if you didn't put all that power into air compressors and amplifiers.

Kevin

Post by **MikeNash** » Wed Oct 28, 2009 5:56 pm

Saw this at the National, but didn't see the owner. Wonder how they sounded!<br>

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Post by **aupickup** » Wed Oct 28, 2009 6:32 pm

loud

Post by **mmjosh** » Wed Oct 28, 2009 7:01 pm

thats cool im going to copy that idea now

Post by **andrew.searston** » Wed Oct 28, 2009 9:09 pm

just remember on long trips it might get a bit hot under their as heat rises and might distort the plastic a bit