OMG! 07 Horn is a joke!

After owning the car for about 2 weeks this was first time I needed to use horn and what a disappointment it was. I was embarrsed after using it because the sound it made was "tiny". Any replacement suggestions?

Yeah... find one you DO like and splice it in

I guess my question if anyone done that and how easy it is to replace. Any particular model to get?

The DB level is high, just about deafening if your near it. It could use some meat though, but all/most Japanese horns at that way.

I know many people that have done it with other cars. Its as simple as just connecting a couple wires... very simple. You can find it some place around the radiator.. should be.

I will try again, but I barely heard the Horn when I was making a turn at 20 mph... and yes I have a good hearing. :)

I agree.  It's pretty whimpy.  I liked the horn on my 03 Golf.  For a small car it had a good, deep "get the hell out of my way" sound to it.  I'll probably replace mine with one of those at some point.

Stand in front and have someone honk it, or pull it in the garage and let one off with both front windows down.
Im not defending the horn, I think it needs to be a different note they are available but I would check around to see if anyone prefers one over the other I know on motorcycle forums there are favorites.
Maybe one of the other forums has info on them try searching outside of the outlander section here.

It may be a PITA to get to, thats something to think about before getting too excited.

Usually they are easily accessable

Yea the horn is pretty gay. They should of put an air horn in.

Well its defenetly louder than my Lancer, it does sound high pitched but it makes my wife jump every time I honk when shes opening the garage door for me. So its good enough for me I guess

For a Japanese horn its not bad but if you want to upgrade grab a set of Magnum Blasters or Stebels. I swapped the puny horns on my FJR for the Blasters - its funny seeing driver/pedestrian reactions when Im on my bike.

Rdenis,

Any idea how easy it would be to swap out our horns and replace them with the Magnum Blasters for the Outie?

get yourself a set of  Hella Supertone Horns and you will be happy friends of mine had some on his WRX and man those thing's are lound !

http://www.rallylights.com/hella/supertone_horn.asp

Hm.... don't like the high pitched ones. I wish I could find the same tone as my previous car (TSX)

Exactly.  The volume is fine, but more "HONK!" and less "BEEP!" if you please.

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Yea the horn is pretty gay. They should of put an air horn in.

so that explains why I caught my horn plugged into another horn with the same polarity..


The stocker is a disc type of horn..the advantage is that it's small and the sound is 'aimed' straight out (you can see the horns from the outside so perhaps looks are a factor??)..they sound pretty lame and are usually found on motorcycles and japanese cars

I put an air horn on my bike and it sounds awesome..but they're much bigger (even the compact all in one units), so there could be some mounting issues and I don't trust the opening of the horn to be facing forward getting water/bugs/dirt in there

The signal type (kind of a sprial look with a sound exit hole) of electric horn (what has been used in most domestics)..that's proably the sound you want..

Train horn : )

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Rdenis,

Any idea how easy it would be to swap out our horns and replace them with the Magnum Blasters for the Outie?

 
It should be a straight swap with the Blasters.  I haven't looked to see how the stock horns are mounted/wired but I suspect they are flat cylinders with two wires so it should be easy to swap them.

Just break the rules and fit airhorns - I did, and now the horn sounds acceptable!

Cost AUS$30, so a cheap fix.