11 replies to this topic

[1984mini25]

Are air horns legal to be used as a main horn, like the ones below?

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[Scallywag630]

Don't see why not.

[mini-man-dan]

I believe single tone are legal, twin tone are not legal.

[coopdog]

lol
i want one

[The Matt]

Musical ones are, well, kinda illegal.

You have to also have a standard horn with them.

Twin tone horns; as far as I know, they aren't illegal. Twin tone airhorns are fitted to a lot of cars as OE kit

[Shifty]

Theres an age limit, I believe single tone are only allowed on post '73 cars, earlier ones can have multi-tone.

[chunkomunko]

I've got an airhorn on my mini.....didn't even think about it being legal or not to be honest.

[1984mini25]

Well it's only because i have one spare in the garage and wasn't sure if i could get away with just fitting that on it's own or whether I’d have to fit a standard horn as well. As the project has neither, I’m tight for space, and I want to keep everything clean and uncluttered.

[jkjaxor]

im pretty sure you can fit twin tones on a car, aslong as they sound at the same time, and not independantly, (so they can sound like a police car)
jack

[HARBER07]

Pretty sure Jkjaxor is right. Remember something like that when reading the IVA manual.

[Podman]

Think the original horn has to be wired in still, for the mot.
I got spade connectors under the bonnet, to switch horns for mot time.
Just don't give the Dibble an opportunity to pull you over i guess

[macfoot]

got them on my mini and passed 3 MOT,S with them fitted ,put them under the wing

Edited by macfoot, 02 August 2010 - 05:33 AM.