On ACA - Big Fines for BEEPing Your Horn in NSW

68AutoBug Beetle Restorer - Experience over 138\% - YIKES --

11,654 posts · joined Aug 2002 · 24 Mar 2010, 11:45 pm

#769703

On ACA last night - BIG FINES in NSW for BEEPing Your horn unless its an emergency...

Fellow beeped to let a pedestrian go across the road....
and ended up with a HUGE fine....

He's taking it to court...
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OK...

If You live in NSW and Your VW horn goes off by itself....

which can and does happen....

You can be fined unless You are about to run over somebody etc..

Waving is still legal as far as I know...

but NOT out the window....

Lee

- Helping keep Air Cooled VWs on the road - location: SCONE in the Upper Hunter Valley - Northern NSW 320 kms NNW of SYDNEY---

cam070 Custom Title Time!

1,332 posts · joined Jul 2009 · 25 Mar 2010, 12:03 am

#769705

I saw this story, pathetic is all I can say.

Also, by the same token, if you are behind a car at the lights and the driver is napping and you beep him/her to give them a little hurry on, and I mean a friendly beep, I would imagine that would be a fine-able offence as well, as its not "an emergency".

So where do we stand at "speaking out the window at a volume loud enough so other drivers can hear" if we can't use the horn except in emergencies, given most cars these days have air con and people drive witht he windows up?

Cops on a power trip I guess.

68AutoBug Beetle Restorer - Experience over 138\% - YIKES --

11,654 posts · joined Aug 2002 · 25 Mar 2010, 5:20 pm

#769843

YES,

the beeping at lights is common...
I've been at both ends,... lol

In past years air horns were supposedly illegal...

but I always had them... lol

but I didn't go around honking though...

and I do BEEP with MY beetle horn at school kids.. lol

I wonder if the Wiggles will still be allowed to BEEP BEEP
in their RED car...

LEE

cam070 wrote:I saw this story, pathetic is all I can say.

Also, by the same token, if you are behind a car at the lights and the driver is napping and you beep him/her to give them a little hurry on, and I mean a friendly beep, I would imagine that would be a fine-able offence as well, as its not "an emergency".

So where do we stand at "speaking out the window at a volume loud enough so other drivers can hear" if we can't use the horn except in emergencies, given most cars these days have air con and people drive witht he windows up?

Cops on a power trip I guess.

- Helping keep Air Cooled VWs on the road - location: SCONE in the Upper Hunter Valley - Northern NSW 320 kms NNW of SYDNEY---

1303Steve Scirocco Rare

8,650 posts · joined Aug 2002 · 25 Mar 2010, 5:48 pm

#769853

Hi

I think in this case the cop was over zealous. I heard the guy who was booked on a talkback radio station talking about this.

Good luck taking it to court.

But I grew up across the road from a family of seven who gave a friendly toot when they left the house or arrived home, it became very tiresome, they stopped after I started doing it with really loud twin Bosch horns on my bug.

Steve

Gringo_54_oval Officially Full-On Dubber

240 posts · joined Jan 2009 · 25 Mar 2010, 9:33 pm

#769918

thats just another bulls*^t reason to take money away from us drivers.
its ok il just rev it instead of honking stingers are louder than any horns 😉

bajachris88 The international telephone dialing code for Antarctica is 6

6,661 posts · joined Apr 2005 · 25 Mar 2010, 10:07 pm

#769928

cam070 wrote:So where do we stand at "speaking out the window at a volume loud enough so other drivers can hear" if we can't use the horn except in emergencies, given most cars these days have air con and people drive witht he windows up?

Cops on a power trip I guess.

haha! well we can't even stick our head out the window to yell at the car in front of us.... cause sticking limbs outside of a vehicle is illegal too lol.

wankers...

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2,169 posts · joined Dec 2002 · 26 Mar 2010, 6:14 am

#769952

Negativity here
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Keeping it real !

1303Steve Scirocco Rare

8,650 posts · joined Aug 2002 · 26 Mar 2010, 8:46 am

#769981

Hi

I heard of a lady who was sitting in traffic and was booked for putting her hand out the window to see if it was really rain on her windscreen.

Steve