Horny

[pogweasel]

Quick question.... You need to have a horn for the MoT, fine, does it have to be wired to the horn push though? Or can it just be bodged through a switch or sommert??This are serius questchun.

[Mash]

When I put a wood-rimmed wheel on my Triumph I found I couldn't get the horn push to work properly (either that or couldn't be arsed possibly...) so I put a little button on the dash where the old manual washer switch was. It's not the most practical of places but it's within reach and always passes the MoT.

[Albert Ross]

Make certain the switch is marked "Horn". In true Autoshite style, you should use Dymo tape...........

[Pillock]

Yeah, as long as it can't be confused with anything else, and it's a momentary switch, it'll be fine.i.e. don't wire it up to a front foglamp switch that you found in a scrappy and swapped for a switchblank or anything.Most aircooled VWs seem to have some random flick-switch on the dashboard. It's usually for the horn, occasionally the windscreen washers.

[Station]

Make certain the switch is marked "Horn". In true Autoshite style, you should use Dymo tape...........

Or masking tape with each end torn off in a point.

[HillmanImp]

I glued a push button on the dash of my GT6 once. You pressed it once to put the horn on and again to switch it off. Surprisingly it passed.

[Spiny Norman]

In my Amazon I've got a Moto-Lita wheel with no horn push in it so the horn is wired to a separate flick switch on the bottom edge of the dash and it passed it's last 2 MOTs like that. The MOT guide only lists the following as reasons for failing a horn...a. the horn control missing, insecure or not readily accessible to the driverNote: Inform the driver if the horn is insecureb. the horn does not functionc. the sound emitted by the horn is not loud enough to be heard by another road userd. a gong, bell, siren or two or more tone horn fitted

[Station]

I don't know if you'd get away with it now, but 20 odd years ago my Arkley* was fitted with a nice bicycle parp-parp bulb horn attached to the door mirror.

We used to have one of those in work. Sometimes it got really, really quiet in the office and someone would give it a squeeze - ooohnn-KOOOOH, and everyone would liven up.