Another reviewer, Greg Hutchinson, has had to replace roughly half of the 20 horns he's installed. Has anyone else had this problem of vibration damaging the horn? Anyone have experience with any of the other Stebel horns? Like the $62.00 chrome horn?
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Works but poor design long term
November 12, 2010
Reviewer:
greg hutchinson
from foster city, CA United States
I've installed over 20 Stebel airhorns on mostly BMW sport bike and G/S restorations and rebuilds. From a performance perspective, you can't ask for a better life saving upgrade to a motorcycle. BUT The physical design is not able to handle the jarring that occurs from the motorcycle suspension. So far, 10 of the Stebels have failed. The plastic section that is actually the horn will separate from the metal compressor and slide down rendering it useless. The horn section is held on by a single plastic loop that snaps at the top to the compressor outlet. The rest is a friction fit that surrounds the compressor. Over time - about 5k miles of street, not off road riding - the plastic loop vibrates and loses its form enough so it cannot retain a purchase. Same for the rest of the plastic,,it expands with vibration.
Then the entire plastic section slides down and the horn can't work.
Maybe their new Chrome (platinum) plated version will work better
Greg Hutchinson
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Great sound and loud!!!
May 23, 2009
Reviewer:
from Northern, VA
Two friends of mine had this horn on their bikes, so I knew what to expect before I purchased one for my bike. It took about 2 hours to install. Had to purchase a new bracket to mount the horn. from Home Depot. I did purchase the relay install kit along with the horn, but also purchased three rolls of extra wire in the colors as the kit since the wire in the kit was exact and did not allow much room for error. Overall excellent sounding horn. You will be heard when it is time to grab the attention of a driver who didn't see you in the blind spot or who is on the cell phone, and didn't look before changing lanes.
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Sounds like a dying duck!
April 17, 2009
Reviewer:
Jeff Santoni
from Laguna Niguel, CA United States
Had professionally installed, worked for about a week now sounds like a dying duck! I'm going to purchase another because I think it's an important safety feature - stay tuned.
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All That I Expected - Good Looks and Loud!
March 7, 2009
Reviewer:
Roger L.
from Bristow, VA United States
I purchased the chrome model for my VTX1300R and mounted it in the same place as the old beep horn using the same old horn bracket. If you're not familiar with fuse wires and such, I'd purchase the wiring kit. I placed the relay switch and fuse wire under the seat for easy access and battery hook up. I ran the other (2 to the old horn connections; 2 to the new horn) wires from the relay switch under the tank following the wiring harness to the old horn wire connections and to the new horn. The wiring diagram that comes with the horn/kit can be a little confusing but it's accurate. Since I'm slow and methodical, it took me 2 hours to install. However, it worked the first time I tried it. Now I have an air horn for safety plus compliments the look of the bike!
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Works but poor design long term 
Great sound and loud!!! 
Sounds like a dying duck!