Horn Question / Replaced ‘Clown Car’ Horn

[jtsang25]

On ALL of them?? That's kind of like the guy who committed suicide and was found shot in the back four times - a little hard to believe. I think the Germans/Austrians decided that, if the engine and transmission were both going to be better in the Toyota car, something had to be better in the BMW iteration. Here! Here is your F'ing horn Toyota!

I made this comment 1 month after release when there were only a handful in the wild. I was thinking it was a year one mess up. And can say now that they just decided to put a shit horn in it 3 years later.

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[ARAKNID]

I made this comment 1 month after release when there were only a handful in the wild. I was thinking it was a year one mess up. And can say now that they just decided to put a shit horn in it 3 years later.

Sorry. I didn't catch that date. It made sense at the time.

 

[puzzled]

It’s not a shit horn, it’s just missing the low frequency horn. $17 on Amazon and a couple hours taking your time, it can be done by even an older guy by himself, and the car sounds normal now.

Too bad I still look like shit..

 

[ARAKNID]

It’s not a shit horn, it’s just missing the low frequency horn. $17 on Amazon and a couple hours taking your time, it can be done by even an older guy by himself, and the car sounds normal now.

Too bad I still look like shit..

As another old guy (Hey, we USED to look good) I would like some specifics. What is the item number at Amazon and how did you install it? Tell me you figured out a way to do it without removing the bumper cover.

 

[puzzled]

As another old guy (Hey, we USED to look good) I would like some specifics. What is the item number at Amazon and how did you install it? Tell me you figured out a way to do it without removing the bumper cover.

Huh, I never looked that good.. ?

Part number is FIAMM 72112.

I removed the bumper to install it on the passenger side as there is already a pretapped hole on the exact opposite side of the crash bar where the factory high freq horn is located.

I made a simple harness tapping both + and - from the factory wire and connecting it to the new horn in parallel.

The biggest issue for me was I have poor vision due to age and it was difficult to see where the bolts go back on when I was putting it all back together.. cause you know, could not see through my reading glasses in that position..

Helps greatly to have a compact 1/4 drive electric ratchet.

I work on cars a lot so taking off the bumper is not a big deal.. just a hassle as I don’t want to scratch anything… and was just lazy putting it off for 2 years…

 

[AMBLERBOB]

Does anyone know which wires under the hood one could tap into for a second horn that would
not require removal of front bumper? There has to be awired connection between the steering
wheel and the horn.

 

[ARAKNID]

The electrical stuff I have done before. But I don't think I have the cajones to take the bumper off. I feel fairly certain I would screw something up and it would be higher on one side when I got it back together. If you run into the vision thing a lot, my dad had an optical shop make a pair of bi-focals with the "reading lenses" at the top. You have to convince them that's what you want, but they can do it.

 

[Andrew4Supra]

I felt the same way and was against the bumper removal. Unfortunately the bumper must come off to add the necessary secondary horn.

Keep in mind the bumper only comes off and on in one fashion. Simplistic once you do it. Once loose... be certain to unplug the outer parking sensors (clip) before pulling it away from the car.

The only real alignment adjustment is on the right and left side where the bumper meets the hood edge. Very easy to adjust the 2 bolts of needed.

 

[Supa_Smlz]

For those that did go through with replacing the horn, which one did you go with? I am am planning to change the horn and hope to just plug/play.

 

[bushido]

fyi FIAM 72112 is on sale for $8.78 on amazon

 

[puzzled]

For those that did go through with replacing the horn, which one did you go with? I am am planning to change the horn and hope to just plug/play.

I thought I read somewhere that the Z4 gets the lower frequency horn and the Supra gets the high frequency horn. So perhaps you might want to read about the Z4 horn and possibly a plug an play.
HOWEVER, the FIAMM horn I used works perfectly fine and plug and play is over rated. Thing is just 2 wires man.. anyone can install it if they can handle removing the bumper and putting it back.

 

[Andrew4Supra]

There's hope... just add the low pitch bmw horn.

 

[ToyoBMW]

I think the z4 horn sounds better than the Fiamm one. The low tone isn't coming through the same on the Fiamm one

 

[Supa_Smlz]

I thought I read somewhere that the Z4 gets the lower frequency horn and the Supra gets the high frequency horn. So perhaps you might want to read about the Z4 horn and possibly a plug an play.
HOWEVER, the FIAMM horn I used works perfectly fine and plug and play is over rated. Thing is just 2 wires man.. anyone can install it if they can handle removing the bumper and putting it back.

Thanks for the info!

 

[suicidaleggroll]

For those that did go through with replacing the horn, which one did you go with? I am am planning to change the horn and hope to just plug/play.

I followed @Andrew4Supra ’s post and replaced with the OEM Z4 horn:
https://www.supramkv.com/threads/finally-the-clown-horn-is-no-longer….13282/

It’s not fully plug and play, but you just have to splice 2 easily-accessible wires once the bumper is off.

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