Tag: horns
17 Posts

Jul 18, 2019
Give Your Small Car the Horn It Deserves
Does your car "honk" or "meep"? Here's how to upgrade.

Oct 25, 2018
Have You Become Admiral Hornblower?
How to stop tooting your horn when locking your car.

Aug 08, 2017
A Stuck Horn Stumps a Samaritan
A knight in shining armor seeks a more permanent fix to a noisy problem.

Sep 24, 2015
Can Car Talk Help Cheryl Get Some Sleep?
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?

Oct 08, 2013
Honk If You Like 55 Degree Weather
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.

Jul 01, 2011
Today: Will Tom and Ray help SaraMarie with her diabolical scheme?
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...

Mar 01, 2009
Today: Tom and Ray diagnose Jackie's thorny horn dilemma.

Aug 01, 2006
Can Bill replace the wimpy horn on his '05 Civic, with something a little more manly?
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...

May 01, 2003
Horn spontaneously honking in winter temps.
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...
