Some people may have seen this on the web, some may have seen it as a
Bonus item on the Employee of the Month DVD, but I want to mess with a
friend of mine by hooking up his horn and his brakes. eg, every time
he brakes, the horn goes off. We both have a 2003 Yukon XL. I just
need to know where to start poking around so I can set this up for
April 1st.

Thanks in advance!

Greetings,

With friends like you, who needs enemas?

First realize that what you will be doing also involves breaking several
laws, tampers with the electrical system of your "friend's" truck, and may
place him in a situation where he might piss off the wrong person at the
wrong time for no other reason than for you to have a laugh at his expense.

That being said, I actually have done this prank before!

The easiest way is to not bother with his existing wiring (don't take a
chance on messing it up), but instead purchase a cheap horn from the parts
store and wire it to a trailer plug. If he has a trailer harness on the
back, just plug it in and stash it up under the rear of his truck. Now
every time he hits his brakes (or turn signal), the horn will go off. If he
doesn't have a wiring harness, you can purchase a T-connector that adds a
harness into his existing brake lights that plugs into the factory connector
under the rear bumper.

Cheers - Jonathan

"myk" <myk (AT) wootlands (DOT) com> wrote

Per myk:
Some might think this is a stretch, but I would propose that it could be quite
dangerous.

In some areas, leaning on the horn is a beeeeeeg no-no and having the horn blare
when the brakes are applied could make some involuntarily take their foot off
the brake at the wrong time before they realized what was going on and
consciously over-rode that reflex action.
--
PeteCresswell

or better yet.. jack the diffs / front and rear end up enough so looks like
nothing is going on and when he jumps in to put it in drive or reverse it
will do nothing.. He will think his tranny is done.. but if he looks under
will see the prank.. done this alot.. just hope he has a sense of humor
"(PeteCresswell)" <x@y.Invalid> wrote

I'm sure he won't go to far down the road with the horn trick. You have to
put the brake on to remove from park and the horn will sound. The only
people he's likely to piss off is his own family or his neighbors while he
sets in the driveway trying to figure what the hell is wrong with his truck.


"ChEvRoLeT" <lblower (AT) cogeco (DOT) ca> wrote

I think I'll look into this one. It'd be the simplest way, and easiest
to fix. Besides, I plan on being with him when it happens, camera
rolling. Thanks for the idea!

On 20 Mar 2007 00:32:37 -0700, "myk" <myk (AT) wootlands (DOT) com> wrote:

Wonder how good a friend he'll think you are after he gets rear-ended
because you garfed up his brake lights playing your stupid joke.
Someone pull a stunt like that, frakking around with MY car, I'd
introduce him to the muzzle end of my .454 Casull. If he's lucky,
he'd merely get pistol-whipped with 7 1/2 pounds of stainless steel.
If he's not, he'll never hear the shot that tears through his
pitifully miniscule amount of brain.
--
Ray Sirois
SysOp: The Lost Chord BBS
http://thelostchord.dns2go.com:6080
telnet://thelostchord.dns2go.com:6023

here is a good prank no need to tamper with stuff.take a thick piece of
carpet under lay foam cut a small piece put under the gas pedal it will feel
like the pedal goes all the to the floor but won't we had a guy take his
truck to the shop thought it was gutless & something wrong heheh

"Raymond Sirois" <nomail (AT) nomail (DOT) no.way> wrote

On Wed, 21 Mar 2007 12:49:02 GMT, "ducky" <ducklands (AT) gmail (DOT) com> wrote:

Statements like this give gun owners a bad name. Guns do not kill
people unless someone uses them wrong and this is not a healthy
atitude. BTW if he was lucky to just get "whipped" you would have to
be really lucky to not get locked up for 10 or 15 years from doing it
because on minimum sentences for crimes using a gun. I do like guns, I
just do not like to see them used or projected wrongly.
-----------------
TheSnoMan.com

Per ducky:
I liked the one by my son-in-law who had a vehicle where car stereo controls
were embedded in the underside of the steering wheel.

He'd get a gullible person in the car (we won't say who.....) and explain that
his new car had a voice-controlled sound system. Then he'd say things like
"Next station please".... and the radio would skip to another station.

After a few iterations of that, he'd ask the passenger if they'd like to try
it...
--
PeteCresswell