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Old May 6, 2016 | 02:41 PM
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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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Old May 6, 2016 | 02:45 PM
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60's? Aooga is from the 20's! LOL
So, is it an alternate to the steering wheel horn? You have to push a seperate button to engage it? I cannot imagine how funny that must be to hear coming from a Mercedes.
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Old May 6, 2016 | 02:57 PM
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60's? Aooga is from the 20's! LOL
So, is it an alternate to the steering wheel horn? You have to push a seperate button to engage it? I cannot imagine how funny that must be to hear coming from a Mercedes.
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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this thread needs a video!
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Seriously. This is awesome. ha!
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Old May 6, 2016 | 03:30 PM
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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?
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this thread needs a video!
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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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?
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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You seem to do just fine. Now what the hell is a wolf whistle? This is going to be an epic horn/whistle thread.
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You seem to do just fine. Now what the hell is a wolf whistle? This is going to be an epic horn/whistle thread.
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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and here I thought the Aooga horn would sound crazy coming from the Benz!
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We are full on looney tunes now... in a good way.
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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
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.
im trying to imagine this and i cant stop laughing.

i want to hear the video too!
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im trying to imagine this and i cant stop laughing.

i want to hear the video too!
No problem I should have it hopefully by the end of this coming week.
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Can wait to hear it

http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=...3A&FORM=VRDGAR

I like the girls reaction
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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?
here is the video
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Originally Posted by thefisch
We are full on looney tunes now... in a good way.
Video is here also here is what it looks like
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ahha! that's fantastic! thank you for also showing the location of the horn itself......very considerate


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!


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Video is here also here is what it looks like
Made my day watching that. Classic sound. You should have taken a bow in the video.
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hahahaha! got to hand it to ya, really love your sense of humor!
nobody would even think its coming from your car.
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That is hilarious! What a riot. I like how you mix it up in life. Keep it up!
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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?
I am sure it can be done. Just have to find the line that goes to the horn for the locking and unlocking. If I replaced the regular horn with the Ahooga horn you would hear the ahooga when you lock and unlock. I just wanted it for when I see something I want to ahooga on.
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I'm still laughing every time I think of you riding around with that horn at your disposal. It cracks me up!
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