wingspan
10-01-2004, 07:26 PM
Ok, have searched a bit and did not find this one on the books: I was backing up in a parking lot tonight to go home. There was a lady in another car kind of pootling along in the same parking lane, but going kind of slowly. When she gets to my space (remember, I am in reverse, looking backwards, foot on brake) she slows and basically stops to look about aimlessly (no one in front or back of her).
So I give her a gentle "toot" on the horn and a wave "hello, can I back out please?" and sure enough, she moves on and I back out and proceed on my way.
What astonished me was that I realised this was the first time I'd really ever used the horn on the 3er, and the note it emitted really dissapointed me.
I mean, I don't really want to start a controversy (well maybe:) ) but have you listened to the horn on your car? I mean, does it sound like a BMW 3 series horn to you?
I guess I was expecting to be reminded of some Italian dual tone air horn 1960s sound, you know, urgent, stident, a take no prisoners horn; a horn to be reckoned with.
What I got was a piddling toot, a middle of the road, average, dare I say a Days Inn kind of sound, a horn sound that did not seem to me in the very least demand my respect (or even, say, live up to my the nearly bloody 40K I spent on this car ;) ) or at least damage eardrums.
What do you think? Am I horn insecure? Should I get online to the FIAMM America web site?
:D
So I give her a gentle "toot" on the horn and a wave "hello, can I back out please?" and sure enough, she moves on and I back out and proceed on my way.
What astonished me was that I realised this was the first time I'd really ever used the horn on the 3er, and the note it emitted really dissapointed me.
I mean, I don't really want to start a controversy (well maybe:) ) but have you listened to the horn on your car? I mean, does it sound like a BMW 3 series horn to you?
I guess I was expecting to be reminded of some Italian dual tone air horn 1960s sound, you know, urgent, stident, a take no prisoners horn; a horn to be reckoned with.
What I got was a piddling toot, a middle of the road, average, dare I say a Days Inn kind of sound, a horn sound that did not seem to me in the very least demand my respect (or even, say, live up to my the nearly bloody 40K I spent on this car ;) ) or at least damage eardrums.
What do you think? Am I horn insecure? Should I get online to the FIAMM America web site?
:D