Tag: horns

Does your car "honk" or "meep"? Here's how to upgrade.

How to stop tooting your horn when locking your car.

A knight in shining armor seeks a more permanent fix to a noisy problem.

Cheryl suspects that one of her neighbors has a malfunctioning car alarm. Every night it beeps about six times and wakes her and her husband up. Can Car Talk solve the mystery of the midnight beeping?

Dan has a Chevrolet Astro Van with a very particular horn. It won't honk unless the temperature is warmer than 55 degrees. Unfortunately, Dan lives far enough north that such fine weather is not the norm. Tom and Ray say modern horns are pretty simple. Read their explanation of how Dan can easily figure out which part of the horn system is broken, right here. 

My boss and I are in a never-ending prank war I really want to hook up one of those horns to his car that plays the ice-cream-truck jingle And I want to have it come on whenever he starts the...

I have a 2005 Honda Civic EX special edition. It gets great mileage and looks sporty, though is rather tame. However, it has a positively wimpy horn. The horn is so bad that I am embarrassed to blow it, ever. I...

The temperature in my Minnesota town at a m last night was minus which was still not as cold as the letter of rejection I recently received from Harvard's Graduate School of Education But I digress At a m I...