Dave Y

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What horns can i buy and fit without major surgery to replace the standard ones? Nothing too loud and not too technical to fit,it always goes wrong for me.

moff1888

I have just fitted some PIAA dual tone horns to mine last weekend, very easy to fit. I put mine either side of the badge.

I was fed up of the pitiful sounding 10 year old horn, i'm now waiting for a chance to use them in anger lol.

Dave Y

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are they much of an improvement, where did you buy them and the big ? how much ?

bushiwarrior

PIAA dual tone horns here also really make a huge difference

53

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Stebel Nautilus Ultra Compact Air Horn Black c. £20 139 db

Hand Held Sport Fire Alarm Horns Car Air Horns Musical Horns Like Dixie Also Electrical Horns and Triple Horns

rob84

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got one of those so i can vouch for that, great horn and dead easy to fit through a relay system

53

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You can do the relay install and it will be louder, for speed/laziness we used the OEM connection earthed to chasis and all is well and all is loud

Great horns

c0lin

had these on my old car also! Will be an addition to the new one also!

they sound so much better

GMballistic

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x3 now for the Stebel Nautilus horn. Got mine at Halfords, comes with everything you need to fit apart from the in-line fuse & 20amp fuse but still a bargain buy.
Scares the sh*t out of people too when pressed hard

johnpye

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Can anyone give good easy instructions to fit them

GMballistic

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Ok I'll give it ago....when you buy a Stebel Nautilus Compact horn you get the;
Electric Air Horn
A five pin Relay (the 87a pin on the Relay is not used)
And a plastic air hose attachment (for frequent off road use/did not use mine)
Sure it also came with a mount (but cannot remember TBH)

You will also need;
An in-line waterproof fuse holder PCS CABLES OnlineShop
20 Amp blade fuse
And some connectors (4-6 blue female insulated and 2 ring connectors), single core cable (1mtr est) plus some electrical crimpers.

*Disconnect the two wires from your stock horn. (taking note of positive and negative wires)
*Connect the old horns negative wire to pin 85 (the negative -) and the old horns positive wire to pin 86 (the positive +) on the Relay.
*Connect a wire between pin 87 on the Relay and the positive connection on the New electric air horn.
*Connect a wire from the negative (-) side of the New electric air horn to a good ground, e.g. A chassis leg, or the negative (-) battery accessory wire. (I fitted mine to the front slam panel)
*Connect your in-line fuse holder between pin 30 on the Relay and your 12V battery or a good 12V positive supply but I'd do it directly to the battery.
*The 87a pin on the relay is not used so just ignore it...job done.

In the above I have not included a few things as it is up to you where you mount the horn and what you do with the relay although the horn must be mounted on a horizontal plane with no more than 25degress in any other direction and obviously situated where it will not be subject to large amounts of water (like puddles).
This is what else I did;

*Removed my front grill (mine is fitted behind this)
*Fabricated a metal bracket (from an old bike spanner wrench) to hold the horn securely. (Bent into a Z shape)
*Fitted the horn to the front slam panel on the passenger side behind the grill (already spare holes for bolts etc on my classic)
*Fitted my Relay in to the OE Subaru engine fuse box (theres already a space inside big enough for it on my classic)
*Then secured all the wires with cable ties, put my grill back on and temporarily deafened myself testing the new horn.

Never written a job out like that before so I hope that's ok for everyone and that I haven't missed out anything.

phil739

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hella supertones all the way mate

53

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I have the Hella Supertones in my Spec D and I have the Stebel in my classic, Hellas for show Stebel for Blow !!!

Hellas are a bit poor in comparison tbh.

johnpye

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thanks for the write up i will def be trying that!!!

GMballistic

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No problem Johnpye

The Rig

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*****thread hijack ****

my car didnt arrive to me with the original horn,it had 2 air horns but they were not wired up properly and later broke.

basically,each horn has the live n earth going to it.

the diagram states both should be earthed together and a diagram of what i need to do,problem is,the diagram includes original wire from the horn button on the steering wheel,how do i find this ?