Question, why don't they have the good horns like on the Durango on the
Daks, I mean it's not like a horn can affect their profit that much one
way or another....
Bruce
>
> than the horn, this is a fact. I recently purchased a pair of hi-lo
> horns from J.C. Whitney, I haven't installed them yet. A friend of mine
> put "semi" horns on his truck and they were very high pitched in sound ,
> but they did have somr range to them. The horns I would like to install
> on my truck are the ones we used on the fire apparatus, they were Grover
> Stutter Tones, at that time (14 yrs ago) they were restricted for sale
> to F.Ds. only, but they really moved traffic. It seems a shame to spend
> as much as we did on our trucks and have such a rinky dink horn.
>
> Jim
>
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> >> I am extremely offended that you would insult fine German
> >> craftsmanship....oops, wrong thread.
> >
> > Ahhhh, shaddap.
> >
> >> On the other
> >> hand, JC Whitney offers an interesting looking air horn, a miniature
> >> version of the kind used on semis. Anyone have any experience with
> these,
> >> how they sound etc?
> >
> > I used the cheapo air horns with the loudest rating (supposed to be
> ~130dB,
> >but I don't buy it) on my boat. They are cheap (~$20), they have an
> on-demand
> >compressor which takes some time to really crank up, but they are Loud.
> The
> >tone is a bit on the shrill side, if you were expecting that big rig
> air horn
> >sound. But they were only $20 and small enough not to pose any
> mounting
> >problems.
> >
> > If you have big bucks ($200-300) and want to drill holes in your
> Dak's roof,
> >Whitney will sell you REAL semi air horns, actuated with a rooftop
> lanyard, but
> >installing the compressor, tank, lines, and horns would be a bitch.
> >
> > Ron
> >
>
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