Please turn off your d*#n car horn!!!!

[grog]

Most all cars have an audible alarm to let you know you’ve locked/unlocked it with your remote (fob), and luckily some of them are quiet/mild little chirps.

However there are many vehicles that sound the horn when the fob is activated, some so loudly that their owners will lock/unlock only when they’re well away from it because they either: A) don’t like the sound of it too, or B) they’re too embarrassed by how intrusive and obnoxious it is, or C) both of the above.

This morning as I was walking out of a coffee shop where cars are parked just 8-10 feet away from the front door, a cars horn sounded a very loud beep and the parking-lights did a quick flash on some kind of new (still had dealers plates on it) black car, scaring the begeesus out of me which caused me to drop my freshly purchased beverage. (sidewalks don’t like mocha’s as much as we humans do!)

Of course there was no one near-by so I’m guessing they don’t like the sound of it either and waited until they were away from it to press the button. And of course no one stepped-up to apologize for causing the mishap.

If you’re vehicle is one that has a loud and bothersome ‘alert’ and you don’t like the noise it makes, please turn the d*#n thing off!!! Its quick and easy to do.

Open your owners manual to “Remote (or Keyless) Entry” and follow the very simple instructions which often will take less time to do then it did to find where your owners manual is located.

You took ownership of the vehicle, now take ownership of how it operates as well as your actions!!!

Please??!!!!

Enjoy…..

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[KatherineL]

It’s not only startling. Horns used to be a warning signal. Now you never know if there’s something coming at you, or if somebody’s locking/unlocking the car. With all the electronics now in cars, it seems they could come up with something different for the lock sound.

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[Sue]

Speaking for myself, I will arm the alarm (with horn) when I’m away from the car NOT because I can’t stand the sound, because it’s usually after I’m 10-20 feet away and think “did I lock the door?” and then I use the remote from a distance.

I also don’t think it’s necessarily common knowledge that you can disarm the horn sound in relation to the alarm/remote; I’d never heard of that, and I’ve owned cars for 25 years. In fact, I just looked at my manual (I have a 14 year old car) and it does NOT say ANYWHERE in the section on the remote as to how to do this, so I’m going to assume that it can’t be done on this particular car.

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[trickycoolj]

1. Not all cars can disable it (just checked my car actually has 2 horns, one for emergency one for lock signal) so I would have to open the hood to dismantle the second horn and not run my car to spec because one person in the whole city is spooked by horns? Nope. Also Honda would just hook it up at my next oil change!

2. Just like Sue said, if I can’t remember if I locked my door I hit the button twice and get confirmation that it’s locked. If it doesn’t beep a door/hatch isn’t securely closed.

So no. You could have dropped your mocha if a firetruck blared by, or a cop suddenly did a quick whoop-whoop instead of blaring their siren. It’s the city.

But hey thanks for the idea, next time I’m bored and have nothing to do maybe I’ll park in front of a coffee shop and lurk around a corner and press the panic button every time someone comes out. /sarcasm

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[sbre]

I once witnessed a very conscience woman stand just inside Bes Restaurant and wait until the coast was clear to lock her car with her remote that was parked out front, and then do the same as they were getting ready to leave.

I know my Subaru and my wife’s Toyota both have instructions in the owners manuals to dis-arm the sounds.

Fortunately the Subaru is a somewhat soft little chirp which isn’t too loud even during the quiet of night.

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[KatherineL]

trickycoolj: ” because one person in the whole city is spooked by horns?”

Obviously more than one person in the city, since I wrote about it too. If there are two of us writing, there will be a lot more citywide. I’m not saying you should disable that horn, but you can note that there’s a downside to it.

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[B-squared]

Add me to the list of highly annoyed by the whole horn/alarm nonsense. it’s rude, plain and simple and if you can disable that sound, you should. Love it especially at night when i’m well on my way to sleep and the neighbor locks their car. nice. my car has a keyless entry and there is no horn sound associated with it. i can however see the lights flash when i lock the car. I can also hear the locking mechanism latch so i know it’s locked.

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[JanS]

I don’t have a key fob for automatically locking my car door.So I have to do it manually every time. It’s an old car…1997…you deal with it. Person I got it from also told me that the alarm didn’t work…found out otherwise one day when I set it off and had no clue how to turn it off :-. I figured it out. Person walking by said…use your key fob….yeah, sure…lol

Neighbor of mine in my building will come home late at night, park under bedroom window, and use her fob to lock her car. It’s loud, it’s once, and then quiet…until a minute later when she does it again multiple times really fast…not sure what’s up with that…not conducive to sleeping, for sure…

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[singularname]

I’ll do the one-click lock so the horn doesn’t beep UNLESS … there’s someone “I don’t understand” in the vicinity, particularly if they’re watching me, in which case I’ll do a double-click so I can confirm it’s locked and I can confirm for them it’s locked.

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