Morris Minor Owners Club

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

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.

Police don't like them!

Fit a separate push button for it so you have the choice of which one to use.
Will you be going for this type of paint job?<br><br>

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?

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

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

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

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

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!!!!!

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.

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

Where do you get that Josh ?

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

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

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

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

loud

thats cool im going to copy that idea now

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