aooga horn installed
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aooga horn installed
Had nothing to do so I installed an aooga horn on the E350. I have had one on every car I owned since 1964. It is kind of a tradition. The horns in the 60's sounded great. The crap on today's market sound like garbage. Had to order a $200 horn that was remanufactured for today's cars. Sounds just like the old 60's horn. I guess because it is a 60's horn that has been made like new. Had I know how much these things have gone up in price I would have kept the old ones. I used a separate line fuse and a relay. I did not tap off any fuses like I usually do.
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The company that made the ooga horns went out of business in 1974 from what I was told. The old horns in the 60's had different voltage and output than what the newer cars have today. So I do not even know if the original horns would even work. I have an illuminated button under the dash that I can access very easily. You push it and you get the aooga. The original horns are still in tact. Yes heads do turn when I use it. My wife went to an all girls catholic high school. I went to public. I would go to the school and aooga so she knew I was there when she got out of school. Drove the nuns crazy. They had the police outside the school to try and find out who was doing the aooga. Never got caught.
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very nice man, I've been wanting a train horn in my CLS for ages but just never do it.......I had an air horn in a Targa once......but it wasn't installed correctly and fried a control panel.......which of course I did not have to pay for 
yes, how about a video?
yes, how about a video?
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When My son comes home next week I will ask him to make a Video of it so it can be posted. I have no idea how to do it but he should be able to do it for me. I have also been thinking about installing a wolf whistle. Had one in one of my older cars. Those are really neat but you have to know how to pull the line.
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Hopefully I will be able to post a video next week. Sorry for the wait but I am not very computer smart. Old guy with limited skills. Know enough about computers to get me in trouble
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A wolf whistle usually gets hooked up to the manifold either directly or off something. It works off the air. Kind of looks like a train horn. The line goes inside the car and you pull on the line and you get a whistle from it. you pull harder or lighter to make it whistle the way you want it. Used to use it on the girls at the beach. IT really turns heads.
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awesome, looks forward to it.....must be really cool to have an old fashioned horn in such a new car, can't wait to see it
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The company that made the ooga horns went out of business in 1974 from what I was told. The old horns in the 60's had different voltage and output than what the newer cars have today. So I do not even know if the original horns would even work. I have an illuminated button under the dash that I can access very easily. You push it and you get the aooga. The original horns are still in tact. Yes heads do turn when I use it. My wife went to an all girls catholic high school. I went to public. I would go to the school and aooga so she knew I was there when she got out of school. Drove the nuns crazy. They had the police outside the school to try and find out who was doing the aooga. Never got caught.
i want to hear the video too!
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here is the video
Arooga Horn Mercedes - YouTube
Arooga Horn Mercedes - YouTube
heads will surely turn......think about the 'phantom' horn.....no one would be expecting that to be coming from your sharp Mercedes Benz.....people will be mystified in many ways!
thanx again for sharing and hope you have fun with it! this has really inspired me to get that train horn I've been wanting!
stay well
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here is the video
Arooga Horn Mercedes - YouTube
Arooga Horn Mercedes - YouTube
nobody would even think its coming from your car.
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Hey dbldpr, a question for you. I was reading another thread about how some folks would prefer a chirp to horn honk when locking or unlocking the car. Apparently, MB changed the W212 to a quick horn honk in 2011 when locking (3 times) and unlocking (1 time) but before that it was a chirp. Not sure if you have that feature enabled or not, but I was wondering if you did if the aooga horns sounds whenever you lock/unlock?
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Hey dbldpr, a question for you. I was reading another thread about how some folks would prefer a chirp to horn honk when locking or unlocking the car. Apparently, MB changed the W212 to a quick horn honk in 2011 when locking (3 times) and unlocking (1 time) but before that it was a chirp. Not sure if you have that feature enabled or not, but I was wondering if you did if the aooga horns sounds whenever you lock/unlock?
