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Hi everyone..Has anyone ever changed their horn? The horn that comes with the Vibe is not very loud - almost not as loud as a motorcycle horn or a bicycle. I would like a louder horn. Nothing silly - just a horn like on other cars that you can hear.Thanks!Jeff

The first time I honked my horn my 12 year old son was in the floor laughing so hard! It's not very intimidating during those "road rage" attacks! I'm interested if there is a change available also!

search, baby, SEARCH http://forums.genvibe.com/zerothread?id=2656

Ohh.it is normal then! I was wondering if it was only partially working. Sounds like a horn used on a clown car at a circus ;-)I am going to check into getting another - with a more noticeable and masculine HONK. Another should be easy to install. Not sure who at Pontiac decided on this horn - must have been someone with a sense of humor. jeff

Keep in mind, the Vibe is a Toyota underneath.That sound in a horn, from my understanding, is pretty common among Japanese cars.

Yeah, it's icky. A lot of people chose the Hella Supertone horns, but I think just about ANYTHING you put in there will sound better. Try visiting your local PepBoys or Autozone and pick out something else, it'll be a definite improvement.

I called the dealer I bought the Vibe from and they said "for safety reasons" they could not change the horn. I guess they think putting a louder horn in my Vibe that people could actually hear would somehow endanger my life So it looks like I will have to do it myself or find another auto repair garage to install a real horn. I thought this would simply be taking a nut off, removing the horn, replacing it with another horn and screwing it back on and reattaching a wire. Looks like it may be lots more work than that. Jeff

again.... SEARCHif you do, you will find that raging has put together a fantastic step by step how to on installing/replacing the crappy factory horns (yes, very laughable indeed) with Hella Dual Supertones. i'm sure you can apply this install to just about any horn, not necessarily the hella's. i know i will be using this when i finally get around to it.

I replaced mine but if you want, you could buy my original one (cheap) and install it to have dual horns for a little more volume.

Quote, originally posted by NovaResource2 »I replaced mine but if you want, you could buy my original one (cheap) and install it to have dual horns for a little more volume.Lol, I was going to do that last year with Nick's vibe. I told him he could be the first member with dual stock horns. He didn't think it was funny.

didn't someone on here install like airhorns or something?? LOL! now that would really blow someone out! and then there's a guy that installed his old tundra horns too. think there's another that found a cheapy one at his local NAPA auto parts store.

Quote, originally posted by NovaResource2 »I replaced mine but if you want, you could buy my original one (cheap) and install it to have dual horns for a little more volume.Won't that just make it twice as wimpy?