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just wondering if these are legal and can be placed in a visible spot or if i need to hide them?

vidler wrote:just wondering if these are legal and can be placed in a visible spot or if i need to hide them?

If they are not musical (ie playing La Cucaracha or something) I think they are fine. I have a triple set on mine. I think Brett (or someone) had a train horn on his. This would be my ultimate goal.

I've always thought they were illegal in any form, but I'm only basing that on the fact that I've seen the tiny little dual air horn setups forsale in Marlows type places and they've always had "for offroad use only" stickers on them.
Might be something to check with the department of planning anyways.

in WA i think you can only have a single tone horn. try here jay http://www.dpi.wa.gov.au/licensing/1882.asp
and here http://www.dpi.wa.gov.au/licensing/1883.asp

chris

i remember hearing ages n ages ago that they r fine as long as you have a switch to toggle between standard and air. might be wrong tho

so what ye reckon of these??? they are truck horns

y would it be illegal if trucks are allowed to have them???????

the main reason i hide mine was so it is harder to steel and so truck drives dont see it , that way when u blow it they dont no it was you

I'd love to see the compressor for those beauties!

holy crap- they are gonna deafen you and whoever else is in the cabin! lmao

only if i have the roof open:)

I've had Airhorns on my cars for years right back to a 1971 V6 Ford Capri right up up to my current Forester that is sporting a Stebel Nautilus Airhorn > Products > Elettropneumatics > Nautilus Series and click on the low res or hi res buttons for a sample of the sound I hasten to add they do sound much better in real life though as your desktop or PC speakers do not do it justice.

As far as I'm aware NSW has to also have a switch to cross between the standard OEM horn and the
Airhorn and QLD just has to be a single note Airhorn ie non-musical.

i like the rollbar jay...lookin swish

Im not saying this is true... but i heard that they are legal (the non-music ones) if you have them on a completly seperate switch and your factory horn still works as it should.

Dave

I was always told they must not point forward,
so we always kept them under the bonnet,

Daza.

ill see how i go. all trucks have them facing forwards so im not sure if that would be true. ill just have them on a seperate horn button

do they happen to be made by hella
if so ive just seen the specs on them and a pair (u have 2 pairs) put out 118dbs at 2 meters

my air horn wired up to the standard botoon just with a switch to change them

nah they are yankee horns. only cost me $89 for the 2 pairs. I also just deafened myself... bloody loud, and that was only 1 set. i tell ya 130psi through a set or air horns is rediculous:)

im at my office in osborne park right now... i'd probably be able to hear it from here if we timed it right

Well Vidler and i just dummy tested having them all wired up at once with 130 PSI.... im not sure what to say... but we could not hear a lot afterwards... it was INSANE. We put it down to as low as 30PSI and it was still very very loud.

Dave