I'm thinking a loud horn or strong headlights would use up valuable electricity and reduce the Clarity's efficiency. How else can you explain weak components whose performance was satisfactory more than half a century ago? I guess one engineer's performance is another engineer's inefficient waste of energy. Back in the early 70's I used to work on the Ford Motor Company ("Fords") horn line in Ypsilanti, Michigan. If you were bad, you were sent to work in the test booth (just kidding, but there was a test booth with someone inside it). For a while I had a collection of funny sounding defective horns, but was too good of an employee to bring them home.
It’s not you, the horn is pathetically weak. I’m almost embarrassed to use it. I live in hope that someone will post where it is and where we can wire in a proper, “wake up, you idiot!” horn.
The weak horn caused an accident for me. When someone backed into the front of my car (I couldn't back up myself to avoid them because of the busy intersection behind me), I blew my horn continuously. After they crashed into me, they said they never heard my horn.
Wow people will just blame anything on this car to cause their accidents.... Let's see how long does it take until someone say driving this car will cost their life because s/he was in the car
Hard not to see a 2 ton object. There are aftermarket horns at various Honda dealers, mostly for Civics. Maybe the Civic horn replacement works.
@KentuckyKen Not going to be the guy that takes apart his car but from the looks of it we have 2 horns - https://www.hondapartsnow.com/genuine/honda~horn~assy~38150-trt-a01.html
Sorry. I might have misstated the circumstances. I'm not blaming the horn on the accident. It was the other driver who was determined to be at fault. That person should have looked back and be sure it's clear before backing up. I am just stating a fact that I blew my horn when they started backing up and they did not react to it. There's no reason to doubt the other driver that they didn't hear the horn. I have no doubt that it was an accident but I have to wonder if they would have stopped if they heard a blaring horn right behind them.
When I lived in the "big city" well suburbs of it, I usual drove with a window cracked opened. At least every two weeks an emergency vehicle would drive by so it was necessary to be alert.
Why do cows have bells? Because their horns don't work. I'm definitely interested in finding and replacing the Clarity's horn.
There is a post on clarity phev group on Facebook about replacing the horn.... He claimed to measure it at 60db inside the car and it's the same level as his pilot (or CRV?)
I finally saw another Clarity on I-95 north of Baltimore late last night. I tried to honk to wave, but he didn't hear it!
But a Honda Goldwing isn't an eco-oriented vehicle--it has more of everything (eg. more cylinders) than a Clarity. Like our Claritys' eco-headlights, our eco-horns keep us traveling under EV power for many, many extra feet. Now if you told me a Honda Cub had a better horn...
Yep, that weak horn of ours outta be good for at least another 1.5 miles of pure EV driving. Wasn’t a Honda Cub a 6 volt system? Honda was rumored to be developing a Hybrid Goldwing last year just before they announced the new 18 model redesign. No hybrid mcy yet, but a more economic, powerful, fuel efficient, and most importantly - compact engine is now in play on the ’Wing. -Skip Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
I look at the horn as being something necessary to alert and wake up unattentive drivers and prevent an accident. Being as weak as it is, it likes not having it. Definitely will look into replacing it.
Just had a chance to use my horn.... Had a guy ran a red light when my left turn lights went green. I thought the horn actually sound about the same as my Prius tho... And the other guy definitely heard it too
I am not sure, but I think it is slightly better than my Honda Shadow used to have. But that is a pretty low bar. I always had to just pass my husband on his bike if I wanted his attention on a long ride. The horn was terrible on that bike.
