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Title: MOT due, Horn gone AWOL
Post by: cheshirehonda on April 22, 2014, 10:36:46 PM

MOT due in a couple of weeks, just checking her over after winter layup, all ok accept horn isnt working. checked horn across battery terminals works ok, and checked connections all ok. am i missing something?

Title: Re: MOT due, Horn gone AWOL
Post by: Trigger on April 23, 2014, 08:22:43 AM

Yep, you are missing this part:
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Vintage-Retro-Bike-Bicycle-Horn-Air-Horn-Circus-Clown-Horn-Bell-Hooter-/251494370189?pt=UK_SportGoods_CyclAcces_RL&hash=item3a8e3b8b8d
This will get you out of trouble until you find the problem.

If you put this part on your bike it will pass a MOT. NO Joke. The law states the vehicle must have a working horn.

Title: Re: MOT due, Horn gone AWOL
Post by: SteveD CB500K0 on April 23, 2014, 08:53:21 AM

No joke indeed.

Exactly what I did one time in the 70's with my 500/4. MOT station was also a push-bike shop. Took one of those cheap horns off the shelf, bolted it onto the handlebars and passed MOT.

Title: Re: MOT due, Horn gone AWOL
Post by: Bryanj on April 23, 2014, 08:54:08 AM

You will probably find that the button contacts are corroded, try spraying WD40 into it and when pushing the button try and twist it a bit as well

Title: Re: MOT due, Horn gone AWOL
Post by: Bitsa (Ralph Wright - RIP) on April 23, 2014, 04:08:26 PM

Love it,
You should hear it, fitted one to my mother in laws electric chair scared the shit out of the French in the supermarkets.
Cheers
Bitsa

Title: Re: MOT due, Horn gone AWOL
Post by: SteveD CB500K0 on April 23, 2014, 06:53:43 PM

Hah!

Post a video...

 ;D

Title: Re: MOT due, Horn gone AWOL
Post by: Bitsa (Ralph Wright - RIP) on April 23, 2014, 07:10:06 PM

Steve
Wish I could sadly she passed away a couple of years ago still miss her so funny watching her buzz in and out of the dopey bastards squeezing the horn.The best mother in law you could wish for if it wasn't for her I would have no Honda today.
Cheers
Bitsa