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I think I have StockHorn Syndrome Now...

GTGallop

GTGallop

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It occurred to me that I had not heard the Tacoma Horn the other day so I beeped it on the road. Not too bad and way better than expected. Probably about a 6 on a 0-10 scale with 10 being a train horn and 0 being a 1980's Yugo. 4 being around minimally acceptable.

But then today, while bending over to pick up a tool in the driveway, I set off the panic alarm on my fob in my pocket. I was standing by the drivers rear tire.

HOLY MOLEY - That thing was loud and sounded way more like a train horn than it did when I was inside the truck. I'm now giving it an 8 on the scale above and really impressed with the sound deadening on the 3rd Gen Taco. No need to beef it up. I'm sufficiently happy.
 
Lol they don't sound bad if you have a dual horn model. The single horn version is a little wimpy. I had duals but changed them to Hella's just because I like how they look.. and they're crazy loud.
 
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I need something LOUDER
 
drizzoh said:
Lol they don't bad if you have a dual horn model. The single horn version is a little wimpy. I had duals but changed them to Hella's just because I like how they look.. and they're crazy loud.
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It must be a dual tone model. Sounded deep and dual tone-ey
 
Tomahawk Dog said:
Think out of the "box"...... makes for a realy good car alarm change.
Source: https://youtu.be/BQFDkpesvK0
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Interesting. I wonder what he used.

GTGallop said:
It occurred to me that I had not heard the Tacoma Horn the other day so I beeped it on the road. Not too bad and way better than expected. Probably about a 6 on a 0-10 scale with 10 being a train horn and 0 being a 1980's Yugo. 4 being around minimally acceptable.

But then today, while bending over to pick up a tool in the driveway, I set off the panic alarm on my fob in my pocket. I was standing by the drivers rear tire.

HOLY MOLEY - That thing was loud and sounded way more like a train horn than it did when I was inside the truck. I'm now giving it an 8 on the scale above and really impressed with the sound deadening on the 3rd Gen Taco. No need to beef it up. I'm sufficiently happy.
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I feel like the horn doesn't fit the truck. Probably sounded a lot louder because of how close you were to it and being directly in front/under it. I believe they are directional. So it wouldn't be as loud when needing to get the attention to someone from the sides. Then sound is dampened by what they may be in. Think of the sound reduction just from being in the driver's seat. I pulled mine and was going to repurpose it to my alarm clock.

I had a Hadley Bully Horn in my one vehicle. Issue with that was the air lines would freeze when it was cold. So when I honked, it wouldn't stop when I released the horn. Would just drain all the way and gradually get quieter. I'd have to disconnect it.

Me being stupid, I went with the Remy Delco ACDF horns. I should go back and clean things up. Just another project on the back burner.

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bonifacio said:
Interesting. I wonder what he used.




I feel like the horn doesn't fit the truck. Probably sounded a lot louder because of how close you were to it and being directly in front/under it. I believe they are directional. So it wouldn't be as loud when needing to get the attention to someone from the sides. Then sound is dampened by what they may be in. Think of the sound reduction just from being in the driver's seat. I pulled mine and was going to repurpose it to my alarm clock.

I had a Hadley Bully Horn in my one vehicle. Issue with that was the air lines would freeze when it was cold. So when I honked, it wouldn't stop when I released the horn. Would just drain all the way and gradually get quieter. I'd have to disconnect it.

Me being stupid, I went with the Remy Delco ACDF horns. I should go back and clean things up. Just another project on the back burner.

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Love this. Wanna build one for me? I’m needing to use my horn for distracted drives just about every time I drive the truck
 
solscooter said:
Love this. Wanna build one for me? I’m needing to use my horn for distracted drives just about every time I drive the truck
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It's really easy to make. Mainly just need a relay, fudse, crimper and connectors. Grabbed a set of horns on eBay.
I just wrapped mine with the sleeving and used a small terminal block just because I had them laying around.

I could throw together the wiring harness for you. Might even have a few of those terminal blocks around.

You'll have to grab the horns and figure out mounting though. There's a lot of mounting options. 4 in a row. Split 2-2. Stacked 2-2. The horn has a bracket arm that needs to be mounted to metal. The horn grounds through that bracket so it's just one line coming off it. I sanded off the powdercoat to my mount and sandwiched the horn arm and light bar mount between washers. Originally I used an aluminum extrusion bar and it worked just fine.

Install is also simple. Doesn't alter any of the factory wiring and it's all under the hood. It was battery, ground and plug into the stock horn connector. Shoot me a message if you're serious.
 
bonifacio said:
It's really easy to make. Mainly just need a relay, fudse, crimper and connectors. Grabbed a set of horns on eBay.
I just wrapped mine with the sleeving and used a small terminal block just because I had them laying around.

I could throw together the wiring harness for you. Might even have a few of those terminal blocks around.

You'll have to grab the horns and figure out mounting though. There's a lot of mounting options. 4 in a row. Split 2-2. Stacked 2-2. The horn has a bracket arm that needs to be mounted to metal. The horn grounds through that bracket so it's just one line coming off it. I sanded off the powdercoat to my mount and sandwiched the horn arm and light bar mount between washers. Originally I used an aluminum extrusion bar and it worked just fine.

Install is also simple. Doesn't alter any of the factory wiring and it's all under the hood. It was battery, ground and plug into the stock horn connector. Shoot me a message if you're serious.
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what about that bracket you have?
 
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