What have you done to your DeLorean today?

[jawn101]

Question for the group. Is what Kevin described here "typical?" I.e. do 51% or more of the cars out there have melted fuses in their 31 years on the road? I wonder because my car has no fuse box melting evidence. There are plenty of other typical issues on the car (angle drive for example) but melting fuses has not been one of them.

Yes, I think it is. My car was very well kept over its life, but still had melted fuses.

Today I drove it to work. One last trip before the major surgery this weekend. Tonight I pulled the lower engine cover, rear fascia, stiffener, impact absorber, muffler and heat shields. Cleaned and shined all the muffler hardware - still shiny perfect yellow zinc under the inch thick blackness!

Tomorrow I will pull the T-panel, headliners and drive axles, then keep cleaning things until the engine removal brigade arrives Saturday morning....

[Bitsyncmaster]

Question for the group. Is what Kevin described here "typical?" I.e. do 51% or more of the cars out there have melted fuses in their 31 years on the road? I wonder because my car has no fuse box melting evidence. There are plenty of other typical issues on the car (angle drive for example) but melting fuses has not been one of them.

My guess is yes. I think the connectors used on the OEM box were marginal and when you get oxidation with age it gets hot. Mine had shown sign of heat on the fuel pump fuse but was still working. If any of your fuses don't pull out easy, look closely at it and you will see it has overheated.

[Farrar]

Is your horn original and if so... did they laugh at it?

Cheers.
Steve

This was my daily driver, not the DeLorean. However, no, my D horns are not stock, just for the record.

[jawn101]

This was my daily driver, not the DeLorean. However, no, my D horns are not stock, just for the record.

Mine are... my wife says they sound like a Barbie Power Wheels. Maybe it's time to start a new "what aftermarket horns do you like" thread

[Jonathan]

Is your horn original and if so... did they laugh at it?

Cheers.
Steve

Mine was definitely worthy of being laughed at a few years ago. It was once described as sounding like a dying giraffe.

Before:

[Jonathan]

After:

[vwdmc16]

OMG that original horn is so sad! It is a dying giraffe!

[dmc6960]

OMG that original horn is so sad! It is a dying giraffe!

Cheap generic auto parts store horns can do wonders. 12 years old and still going strong...

[mluder]

After:

Not too bad... Very simmilar to the original. What did you use?

I like the original European sound. Some one once said an American horn sounds like, "GET THE FU@K OUT OF MY WAY!" While the British sounding DeLorean hors sounds like "excuse me... would you mind ever so much if I just... could I please pass through... thanks."

Cheers.
Steve

[Jonathan]

Not too bad... Very simmilar to the original. What did you use?

http://store.delorean.com/p-6956-ass...-low-note.aspx

Believe it or not, these are the straight forward ones right off of the DMCH website. I figured one of my horns wasn't chiming in properly, so I bought one each of the low and high note. Super easy to install and for $15 each, quite reasonable. I highly recommend them!