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Who has them? Who's heard them? I've been thinking about these things to free up some space behind my front bumper where my current air horns are mounted. here's a link for product description:
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If I did get these, I'd repaint the "protective grills" to a more suitable color like bright neon purple. lol.

Never heard 'em, but I've seen them on a scooby around here.

I've seen them on scubies too, but never heard them. I guess I may end up guinea pigging these and report back.

You could cut off the scooby?

What the hell is a scooby?....is that an STi?


Z, if your going to get a horn go for the big dawgs or go home. I know your trying to free up space so this will take some imagnative thinking to make it fit.

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scooby is a nickname for subaru..  so is subie..

the supertones are a popular upgrade on subie cars.  they are pretty loud..

I'll mount those bad boys on the roof.

For real though, thanks for your input Mark. Since I haven't heard these things, I might just be the guinea pig. We'll see.

what kind of a difference is the sound, and how much louder?  I always feel like my horns should be louder!

I wish I knew. Mark ha some insight on these so maybe he's heard them and could give his opinion on the sound compared to our bitch sounding stock horns. The bitch sounding stock horns are the reason I have air horns currently. I just want to free up some space because my horns are rather large. Just nowhere near as feakishly huge as the ones Jeremy posted nor as ridiculously expensive.

You can't find out the specs of these anywhere?

Let's put it this way.. The Hella Supertones are 118dB loud.  118dB is pretty loud..  Most tracks have a limit of 93dB for exhaust, and those exhausts are fairly loud.  Best I could probably compare it to is ambulance sirens.  Ambulance sirens are about 120dB, but they won't be as loud as an ambulance siren since decibels are on a logarithmic scale.

My best advice, and it won't really be that great because of varying camera quality, is to watch videos on youtube that compare stock horn to supertones.  Most of them will probably be subie videos though.

FWIW, the legal limit for sirens in car alarms is 129 dB.  118 dB is still pretty damn loud too.

Cool. Thanks for the insight fellas. I'm going to have to do some snooping.

I just went and looked. I found this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2A_k_nZYV5E&feature=related) and this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8keRJuUSod8&feature=fvw). It sounds a good bit louder. On the db rating. I have heard that 3db is the perceivable difference that the human ear can hear. So in theory it should be about as loud as the ambulance.

How hard is this to install for a simpleton like myself?

The install isn't that hard, but it does require a basic understanding of DC circuits and wiring and how relays work.  It all depends on your level of knowledge and experience.  For some people, it's cake, for others, it's hard as fuck.

Ahh okay.  I would probably fall into the "hard as fuck" category.

Reviving this dead thread;
If anyone is interested, I just received my Hella Supertones horns in the mail.  I got the dual horn setup.  It's rated at 118dB, as stated above.  I'll make a before and after video and maybe a DIY.  I'll keep you guys posted.

I am interested, do it!

Are you confident enough in your abilities to do some soldering?  If not, you can just crimp it.  I did everything already, forgot to take pictures, but its pretty straight forward and I can wing it for the instructions.  As for comparison, I'll meet up with a friend and make a video just for comparison.  Won't do it much justice though.  It's a nice, loud, commanding tone.  I like it.  Just let me know what you need to know.

Thanks for reviving the thread. I totally forgot about this as other things came up. I'd love to hear a comparison.

so where is the comparison vid? 

hmm, their install guide isn't loading for me, but I'm willing to bet it's as simple as removing your old horns and using the 12v connection for these new horns. The only other part would be mounting them which should be too hard

I'll get a comparison vid up soon.  

As for wiring, the stock horns ground themselves with the mounting screw.  To wire them up, you can cut off the stock connector for power and solder on extra wire and crimp on a female blade connector on the end.  Hook that up to positive on the horn.  And for negative, I crimped a female blade connector on one end for the horn side and on the other end of the wire I used a ring connector and used the hood latch bolts as ground.  It worked well and is still working to this day.  

For mounting you can just use your stock mounting point and hardware.  It's VERY straight forward.