Horn Question / Replaced ‘Clown Car’ Horn

That’s a lot of work for a new horn. They buried it

Weird. It took me a bit over an hour to replace the horn with a plug & play FIAMM blaster horn. $20 for horn. No more clown car.

zeroomega said:

I am wondering how much did u pay for the labor for the horn.

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The dealer charged me 3 hours labor, but spent 4 hours doing the work. The 2 Lexus horns were $223 Cdn (approx $160US), and labor $432 Cdn ($320 US), for an ugly total, including taxes of $766 Cdn (approx $560 US). Like I said in my earlier post, in hindsight, a single dual tone BMW (or plug and play equivalent) would have saved a lot. I couldn’t do the work myself, and couldn’t get either a Toyota or BMW to do it. BUT, my new horn sounds fantastic!

AustinGRSupra said:

Weird. It took me a bit over an hour to replace the horn with a plug & play FIAMM blaster horn. $20 for horn. No more clown car.

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thanks! I didn't really know where to start looking.
Their website has sound previews of their numerous horns!
https://fiammcomponents.com/en/sout...custici/prodotti/am80s-(fti).aspx#audio_video

Natek said:

Is the replacement horn plug and play or did you have to splice in a new adapter?
By chance do you have part numbers? (Not sure if horns are universal or if this is a bmw connection)

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Car has BMW electrical plug connected to original horn, and I had Lexus / Toyota dual horns installed. This required splicing in new Lexus / Toyota connector plugs.

XtremeMaC said:

thanks! I didn't really know where to start looking.
Their website has sound previews of their numerous horns!
https://fiammcomponents.com/en/sout...custici/prodotti/am80s-(fti).aspx#audio_video

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Right. Z4 forums were helpful to get me started on looking for a horn. Even though the Z4 has a better horn than the Supra (it’s like Toyota decided only to have the high note?), there were some people replacing it.

AustinGRSupra said:

Weird. It took me a bit over an hour to replace the horn with a plug & play FIAMM blaster horn. $20 for horn. No more clown car.

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Do you have any details on how you want about it? Is it just the FIAMM AM80SX horn you used?

I have ordered the BMW Z4 horn but my Toyota dealer is not able to tell me IF they can put it in or if it voids warranty when I put it in by myself. So still clown horn for me...

Dunc said:

Do you have any details on how you want about it? Is it just the FIAMM AM80SX horn you used?

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I just replaced mine with the NAPA/Balkamp FIAMM low note blaster horn. 132 decibels I believe.

Part no: 730-1056
Cost: $20.00
DIY labor time: 1.2 hr

AustinGRSupra said:

I just replaced mine with the NAPA/Balkamp FIAMM low note blaster horn. 132 decibels I believe.

Part no: 730-1056
Cost: $20.00
DIY labor time: 1.2 hr

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Did you have to remove bumper like above or through the wheel well?

RenierR10 said:

Did you have to remove bumper like above or through the wheel well?

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Remove bumper: pretty easy with a helper.

larrymz3 said:

Weird - I was under the impression that the horn swap was easy - just remove the drivers side wheel and open the compartment in the wheel well where the horn is located? I've talked to a few folks who have done the swap and they said it was 30-45 mins max. job - the hardest part was taking the wheel off to get to the horn location.

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Dealers gotta “pad” the install. They have boat payments coming due.

A member on here did it, said he took his time and it took a hour, iirc.

Hello all,

Just finished fixing my horn.
So what I did basically is I bought the low note horn only from the BMW dealership (around $50) since the Supra already has the high note horn installed, and it's the same one exactly as the Z4's. Removed the front bumber (didn't have to remove the LED lights), ran a wire through the pre installed horn connection in the driver's side and extended it to the passenger's side.
Whole job took around 2 hours and about $100. The task was easier than what other members have suggested because in our location the Supra comes without any front parking sensors or lane assist radar, so the front bumber was pretty much easy to remove and didn't have any wirings.
Surely the Z4's horn doesn't sound the best, but at least adding the low note makes it much more tolerated and louder compared with having the high note installed alone.

Hope this helps

Hello all,

Just finished fixing my horn.
So what I did basically is I bought the low note horn only from the BMW dealership (around $50) since the Supra already has the high note horn installed, and it's the same one exactly as the Z4's. Removed the front bumber (didn't have to remove the LED lights), ran a wire through the pre installed horn connection in the driver's side and extended it to the passenger's side.
Whole job took around 2 hours and about $100. The task was easier than what other members have suggested because in our location the Supra comes without any front parking sensors or lane assist radar, so the front bumber was pretty much easy to remove and didn't have any wirings.
Surely the Z4's horn doesn't sound the best, but at least adding the low note makes it much more tolerated and louder compared with having the high note installed alone.

Hope this helps

Was Toyota trying to have the car horn sound like an old Porsche? Why else have it sound like this?