Most “dad stories” sound like things that would get you arrested today... because they would. But I’ve learned to accept that back in the day, people weren’t so uptight, and you could get away with a LOT more shenanigans without winding up plastered and defamed all over social media. Some of my dad’s stories are…

That’s how my setup is. Sometimes you need a friendly honk, or sometimes your car has to go for an alignment or something, and you don’t want them to blow the train horns as they’re pulling into the shop, lol.

Lol. Soooo... funny you should mention that. I may have installed four PA speakers under the hood of my old Outback, after I got them from a yard sale... and I may have hooked them up to an amplifier, which was then hooked into a hand-held microphone, and a PDA with all sorts of sound effects pre-loaded.

Talking at…

Overhead gear selector buttons? Sold.

I guess I'm in the minority, then!

I mean... what about all of us buying new cars for the long haul? It's not like that demographic doesn't exist!

Jesus christ. A million photos of the front end, and not a single photo of the rear!

Alternate Title Ideas:

“How to Keep Your Keyless Entry Car from Getting Stolen”

“How to Enable the Extra Security Features Tesla Offers that Most Other Manufacturers Don’t”

Lol. It depends on who you ask. In my experience, people either think it’s awesome/hilarious, or think it’s completely stupid, and that I must be a road-raging idiot/asshole.

That was kind of my issue. At speed, on the highway, I almost can’t hear my own horn, lol. And my car has, like, no sound-deadening (well, it has a bit more now, but yeah.)

It’s not legal in pretty much all states. There is no official decibel limit, most of the time, but the verbiage is always something on the order of, “Horns must not be of an unreasonable volume.”

Having said that, since people completely ignore normal volume horns, I don’t consider these unreasonable, lol. At least…

Yeah, that guy sounds like a douche. Even the site where I bought this kit from is plastered with photos of the douchiest-looking bro-trucks you’ve ever seen. (www.hornblasters.com).

I think I briefly honked mine once last week, lol.

Mine was a full kit. I had to build the removable mount for the trunk, and buy a few extra fittings for the way I wanted to do things, but the kit came with the horns, compressor, air tank, and most of the air lines and fittings. Everything you need for a BASIC install, essentially. It was a Hornblasters kit. The…

Yikes! I always make sure they’re disabled when I bring the car in for an alignment or some-such. Last time, though, they asked me to enable it after they had finished so they could have some fun with it, lol.

True. It’s harder when you have a BRZ which doesn’t really have space for the horns, and are still trying to keep the trunk useful, AND want the compressor and tank and stuff to be easily removable for autocross, haha.

I put train horns on it. Though I’d argue it’s not THAT dumb of a modification. Unlike the stock horns, people do NOT ignore these, so they’re great for getting idiots to stop merging onto you, or pulling out in front of you. I don’t go around honking them just to scare people like those assholes on the internet…

I think the point here is that the X5M probably has some modicum of handling prowess, even at those speeds. The thought of needing to do even a small correction to the steering in a G63 at 145 MPH is fucking terrifying.

I guess that would make sense, but the wording seems to mean NOT that, unless they meant to say “shall not be operated IN LIEU OF headlights.” Still, even that is weird. I’m not aware of a single vehicle sold in the US that allows you to independently turn on the fog lights. All of the vehicles I’ve ever driven…

Oregon Revised Statute (ORS 811.515 Section (8) states: A light other than a headlight, that projects a beam of light of an intensity greater than 300 candle power shall not be operated on a vehicle: (b) when use of low beams of the vehicle headlight system is required under limited visibility conditions.

After 4 real-world years of ownership, the number of times I’ve found myself needing out-accelerate a minivan, and getting out accelerated, at any speed, remains at precisely zero ;)