Who's bright idea was it to make the car horn honk when you lock your doors?

[Thegonagle]

In case you need to know, the message title contains sarcasm. I don't think it was a bright idea at all. It's just noise pollution. LOUD noise pollution. The kind of stuff that wakes up the neighbors in the middle of the night.

Screw it. I'm going to the store to get some buy one, get one free Freschetta pizzas. In my car. In my car that DOESN'T honk the horn when I press the button.

 

[Anubis]

ok

 

[jagec]

The worst one I've heard is a car that honked the horn THREE TIMES when the guy locked the door.

 

[loup garou]

:wine:

 

[JSang]

better a honk than a car alarm from some moron who cant tell if the alarm is enabled.

 

[littleprince]

Its been a peeve of mine for a while.
Its mostly those dang minivans and hondas...

 

[Judgement]

Its so that the driver knows for sure that their car doors locked properly.

 

[Kalvin00]

Disabling honk=:thumbsup:

And as for checking if it locked, press the button and pull the handle.

 

[Thegonagle]

Originally posted by: Judgement
Its so that the driver knows for sure that their car doors locked properly.

I know what it's for. But why use the damn 120 dB car horn? Does the driver and EVERYBODY ELSE up and down the block, in the apartment complex, etc., need to know? Or just the driver?

 

[Balt]

Originally posted by: Judgement
Its so that the driver knows for sure that their car doors locked properly.

My car flashes its turn signals and accomplishes the same thing.

The horn can definitely get annoying.

 

[Heisenberg]

My car flashes the headlights and honks the horn. But it's a short, muted honk so unless you're pretty close to the car you can't hear it.

 

[Thegonagle]

Arrgh!!!! 1:04 AM, and it just happened again!

This one was a particularly loud one. Must have been that Buick that's in front now.

 

[vi edit]

My poor little Mazda 3 horn sounds like a one testicled road roadrunner suffering from an asthema attack when it honks.

It's a really wimpy little "meep". Works great for letting you know things are locked, but pretty much useless when you really need to lay on it to get somebodies attention.

 

[fs5]

Originally posted by: vi_edit
My poor little Mazda 3 horn sounds like a one testicled road roadrunner suffering from an asthema attack when it honks.

It's a really wimpy little "meep". Works great for letting you know things are locked, but pretty much useless when you really need to lay on it to get somebodies attention.

time to upgrade to a triple horn :evil:
http://store.yahoo.com/rodi/noname6.html

 

[bleeb]

It's basically for audio confirmation that the vehicle is locked.

 

[ndee]

lol, I love to piss you people off The Pontiac Grand Prix(our rental car in California) honked when we locked the car. Needles to say I locked-unlocked it all the time when I walked away from the car

 

[Kadarin]

Hey, at least no one there's got an oogah horn...

 

[sapiens74]

anyone ever visit their favorite watering hole and was about to leave and couldn't remember your own name much less where you parked. the combination of audio and visible alerts allows you to find your vehicle and keeps you from sleeping on the street corner

 

[jagec]

Originally posted by: sapiens74
anyone ever visit their favorite watering hole and was about to leave and couldn't remember your own name much less where you parked. the combination of audio and visible alerts allows you to find your vehicle and keeps you from sleeping on the street corner

Perfect, now even the auto manufacturers are trying to keep drunk drivers ON the road.