My friend’s truck had a really ridiculous sounding “awooga” horn (don’t know what else to call it.) It was fairly loud, but it was more the strange sound that made it so awesome. He’d drive around, give it a honk, and everyone in earshot would start laughing.
I still like those 1970’s melody horns like the one in the General Lee in the Dukes of Hazzard. Can you still get those?
JC Whitney carries them. Dixie is the song they play.
It’s above the point of pain and easily loud enough to cause temporary or permanent hearing damage.
Loud enough for you?
That it’s happening to someone else?
It looks like you are implying that I think I’m self-entitled for wanting a louder horn in my Corolla. All I really want is all the large vehicles around me to actually notice that I’m there. I know they have to look down a far ways to see something as small as a Corolla; I want to help them out.
What? I can’t hear you.
No, I don’t want a horn that loud.
Since your car seats five, you have room for four passengers. All you have to do is fill those seats with members of the Calgary Opera, and have them collectively belt out a C Sharp Augmemted on your direction. A great train horn sound without taking up any trunk space.
Oh, man, that would be awesome. I’ve been watcing reruns of As Time Goes By and one of the characters has that kind of horn in her car. It rocks.
My mom would be interested in this horn-changing. She has an Equinox which has the wimpiest horn ever. My ancient little Maxima has a far more studly horn. Mom wondered if it were possible to switch them.
You think your compact car horn is wimpy, listen to the stock meep-meep from a typical motorcycle.
Fiam freeway blasters are the standard answer for those wanting to upgrade to “real” horns. They come in high and low tone versions, for best results, use one of each. The two tones beat, causing double the sound pressure as they go in phase.
Use the stock horn circuit to drive a relay coil, and run a dedicated AWG12 line from the battery to the relay.
LMAO
To the OP: You might get away with your original wiring by doing this - Get a junkyard horn of any description (although another Corolla horn would probably be best), and wire it in parallel next to your existing horn. Presuming it has a tuning screw on it, tune it to be either harmonious (for a pleasant sound) or not (for an attention-getter). Either way it’s twice as loud.
Come to think of it, the last time I needed to use my horn, it didn’t work. Too bad it’s freaking winter, or I might try to fix it.
If I were the sheriff in that town, I would have these fuckstains arrested for every noise ordinance on the books as well as felonious ASSAULT, since that volume can and will permanently damage people’s hearing.
Fucking retards.
“Secure the upper hatch! Flood all tanks! Dive! DIVE!”
The horn I’d like to get is the “BRAAPPP” that cop cars use. Just something to put a little fear into dimwits as they do dumb things that might get them pulled over if a cop saw them.
Unfortunately, that’s probably just a little too close to “impersonating” a police officer even if I don’t have a siren or flashing lights.
Thanks for the most enjoyable thread, Featherlou.
I laughed and laughed while watching the youtube video.
I too wanted a colossal horn - for my Miata - but gave the car to my son
before I did so, dammit. (It’s a 1991 and he still drives it.)
I put a Fiam air-driven horn on my Yamaha Seca 750, in a manner similar to what you describe, but the electrical system still wouldn’t push the horn. I think it must have been designed to provide the absolute minimum power for the bike. Sometimes I would hit the horn and just hear the air compressor whir without hearing any actual horn sound, or sometimes just a pathetic wheeze.
Strange, I put air horns(don’t remember brand) on my Yamaha Vision and those things were almost reverse thrusters when I hit the button.
Here’s an even better horn for a Corolla.
I’m picturing that mounted on the front of my car - 
Might as well steal these and use them!
Obnoxiously loud horns aside, I put in a pair of Stebel TM80s for under $20 on my motorcycle after my squeaky stock horn failed to catch the attention of an SUV-driving lady who started changing lanes into me, even after several toots, then full-on lean-on-the-horn honking.
She ended up trying to make a right turn from the middle lane (of three) in front of me (I was in the rightmost lane), and clipped my front wheel slightly after I braked as hard as I could to stop in time. I wasn’t hurt, and she was very apologetic, so my take-away lesson was to get a louder horn.
The TM80 is a nice, deep sounding horn that has definitely gotten the attention of drivers and pedestrians that might well not have noticed the stock horn.
(There’s still no substitute for defensive driving, of course; if I’d done nothing but honk my horn I would have gone over the hood of her car.)
Here’s a sound clip of the (single) TM80; it sounds more like a big car (a Buick sedan, say) than the also-popular Stebel Nautilus horn, which has more of a truck-like air horn sound.
I’ve also upgraded the horn in my Subaru Forester.