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Old 11-04-2011, 12:03 PM   #1
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Are pressure horns or two toned horns banned in NSW/Sydney? I can hear them often in wentworthville where I live,thats why I was curious. If they are not then where can I procure them and any idea of price? Ta

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Old 11-04-2011, 12:08 PM   #2
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if you mean musical or similar horns that change tone, not banned from sale but illegal on a road registered car
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Old 11-04-2011, 12:12 PM   #3
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Are they really illegal on a road reg'd car? I never knew that.

Bye bye Dukes of Hazard Horns...
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Old 11-04-2011, 12:18 PM   #4
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Any Idea's of ringing your local RTANSW Office/Building or your local police station?

They should be able to give you a definant answer
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Old 11-04-2011, 01:14 PM   #5
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You can have dual tone horns ... but not musical though.
A lot of factory vehicles have them as standard.
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Old 11-04-2011, 01:16 PM   #6
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I thought they'd been illegal for many years now? "Two tone" or "musical" horns have long been a big no-no here in Queensland.
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Old 11-04-2011, 01:21 PM   #7
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Well by my knowledge you can have them but you cant use them.

Activating your horn anywhere but private land is illegal as far as im aware..
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Old 11-04-2011, 01:52 PM   #8
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They are not illegal if they are not the primary horn.

I have several on my bashmobile as do others and we make lots of noise with them but it is not legal to use them as a "warning device".
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Old 11-04-2011, 02:29 PM   #9
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Ah just fit these no more problems...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icnRM...eature=related
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Old 11-04-2011, 02:32 PM   #10
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They are not illegal if they are not the primary horn.

I have several on my bashmobile as do others and we make lots of noise with them but it is not legal to use them as a "warning device".
This was always my understanding, if you want to put musical horns in, add them on a seperate switch - keep your original in and wired to your normal horn pad, but add a button somewhere else on your dash for the musicals.

And then don't activate your musicals on a public road!
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Old 11-04-2011, 02:40 PM   #11
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I have two tones on my xr fairmont. They are both air horns ,ones like a factory ford horn and the other is an aftermarket horn, I can flick a switch under the bonnet to change my tune so to speak. What I would really love to have is a set of truck airhorns under my bonnet so that when these moron pushbike riders get in my road as they often do ,specially on the weekend ,I can cruise right up behind them ,blast my horn and watch them jump three feet in the air, might have to look further into that.
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Old 11-04-2011, 03:59 PM   #12
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Or you could, you know, just drive around them.
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Old 11-04-2011, 04:06 PM   #13
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Or you could, you know, just drive around them.
Horn idea would a lot funnier though. Latex wearing knobs.
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Old 11-04-2011, 04:07 PM   #14
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Air horns are illegal for public road use. I found this out when my girlfriends car got knocked back on a pink slip for them.
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Old 11-04-2011, 04:24 PM   #15
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Are train horns illegal?
They are very loud would scare people more then truck horn.
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Old 11-04-2011, 04:29 PM   #16
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Or you could, you know, just drive around them.
Its impossible to when there are 30+ taking up the whole road, thinking that they are in the tour de france. It would be easier to just drive over them.
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Old 11-04-2011, 04:31 PM   #17
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Air horns are illegal for public road use. I found this out when my girlfriends car got knocked back on a pink slip for them.
I thought many ford factory horns were air horns ,anybody ?
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Old 11-04-2011, 04:37 PM   #18
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I recall seeing one in "Targo Automart" way way way back in 1982 in Bundaberg...it was the only auto parts store in town besides Repco...and it was an sir horn system with seven or eight horns, from a large one to a tiny one, and it was linked to a "keyboard" with a bunch of numbered keys on it. It was preloaded with 100 tunes, and you could program in more of your own. Never actually saw one fitted to a car as they were illegal even back then, but complicated systems certainly existed.
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I have two tones on my xr fairmont. They are both air horns ,ones like a factory ford horn and the other is an aftermarket horn, I can flick a switch under the bonnet to change my tune so to speak. What I would really love to have is a set of truck airhorns under my bonnet so that when these moron pushbike riders get in my road as they often do ,specially on the weekend ,I can cruise right up behind them ,blast my horn and watch them jump three feet in the air, might have to look further into that.
Be careful, you never know when there is a lycra clad fairy who used to shoot people for a living lurking about......
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Be careful, you never know when there is a lycra clad fairy who used to shoot people for a living lurking about......
Are you speaking from experience flappist ?
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Old 11-04-2011, 10:32 PM   #21
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Be careful, you never know when there is a lycra clad fairy who used to shoot people for a living lurking about......
Or is that a LCKF?

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Old 12-04-2011, 07:05 AM   #22
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Be careful, you never know when there is a lycra clad fairy who used to shoot people for a living lurking about......
Plenty of them in Sydney CBD ... they are called bike couriers. Or Temporary Australians with the way they ride around.
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