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For those who have the air horns on their TDs. Do you run the regular VW horn to the steering wheel horn button and then run a separate button for the air horn or do you just run the air horns to the steering wheel button? I’m thinking of using both unless you can just run the air horns to the steering wheel horn button.
Allen Caron
VW based 53MGTD - "MoneyPenny"
"If one thing matters, everything matters" - from the book The ShackWhy not use an “Either/Or” switch? It is also known as a “single pole double throw” switch. You could either mount it in the center dash or hide it somewhere easily reached while driving.
That switch has three posts. It is constructed so that you can direct the center terminal to either of the two outer posts. You would hook the neutral wire from the horn button to the center and wires from the neutral side of the coils on the two horn relays to the outer posts. That way you could select either normal level horns or the really LOUD air horns when you honk the horn.mustang_evets2014-09-29 20:36:38
I’ve been pondering this question myself, and not just for my TDr. I’ve been thinking of putting air horns on my daily driver for those occasions when I really need to get somebody’s attention.
Conventional wisdom would be to leave the switch to the stock horn in the center of the steering column and add a switch for the air horn. But I think the real question is where do you reach instinctively when you need the horn in a split second and which horn do you want to sound off on those occasions?
So just so everyone knows the good news: VW horn button, on the center of the steering wheel, works great if it works and has the advantage of being right where most modern drivers press when panicked.
HOOOONK!!MGTDs had their horn button on the dashboard, usually third from the left on the center cluster. The early ones included the high beam “dipper” switch, the late ones did not and were thus more akin to these $30 universal-fit buttons you can get.Beep beep!I have only the air horn, run to the steering column center.
Paul Mossberg
Former Owner of a 1981 Classic Roadsters Ltd. Duchess (VW)
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