right behind the front grill... infront of the radiator. you will see a small little black disc horn...

there is a bracket that attaches it to the frame around the engine bay.

 

did you end up getting supertones? or just the regular air horn?

 

Supertones, for $10 each at Addisons electronicss

 

Checkout joedarkness Hella Supertones on his Matrix:
http://matrixowners.com/?showtopic=78059

 

i think any horn sounds better than the stock one. my vibe uses the same wimpy horns as your car and when i honked at someone that cut me off i actually laughed out loud lol it was so embarassing. it sounded more like "umm excuse me, can you move over a bit please?" lol i bought a horn from autozone and it sounded a lot better

but yah the horn's not hard to find...it's behind the grill and it's this small black disc thing...mine was pretty easy to install since it had a relay built in to the horn.

 

i got a horn out of the new tundra from my dealership LOL its sounds SO funny when you hear it and look at the car very unexpected.

 

hey wonderboy how much did you get the tundra horn for? was it plug and play too?

 

put hella supertones in my xrs, super easy to install. pull the old horn out put the new ones in a little bit of wiring and it done. I paid $80 for mine at a subaru dealership so $10 is a steal.

 

Pics of my Hella horn. ($10)

Here is a pic of my hell horn, I paid $10 at Addisons electronics in Montreal. ( Addisons is an electronic junk shop that sells all sorts of electronic parts for low prices )

www.hellahorn.webs.com

 

looks like mine but don't you have two horns? I installed two horns, one is a high ptch and the other is a low pitch. The high pitch is 500Mhz and the low is 300 Mhz,(or vise versa) that way when you honk someone they they'll hear two tones. A heck of a lot louder than the stock horn.
:clap:

 

I took a couple pics of my hellas. The one on the right is looking from the top. Use the existing threaded hole from the stock horn and there is a threaded hole on the left side for the second bracket. I used the existing wire and split a new wire to go to both horns and grounded both. Super easy, just pull the top of the grill back and then everything is a piece of cake:clap:

 

Hi,

Just read you post and intend to do the same for mine.

Interested in the method you used to put the Hellas between the radiator and the grill. Do you mine explaining what you meant by " just pull the top of the grill back"?

TIA

 

has anyone done a big rig / air horn conversion?? muahahaha

 

the horn is quite wimpy, but if I were to replace it I'd buy a horn for cruise ships. Then I can scare the shit out of everyone. Good plan, right?

 

That would be a great plan, if you wouldnt mind having something mounted to the roof of your corolla, that was of equal size or greater to the car lol

 

Train horns and big rig horns have been done, cruise ship now there is something different.

Someone should put a foghorn in, nice and deep tones that lighthouses use. Now that would be cool.
http://www.sanpedro.com/sounds/foghorn2.wav


Too bad the horns would be bigger than the car....

 

hey i'm wondering if anybody's had probs w/ their new horn yet. does this corolla need a relay for an aftermarket horn, or a higher amp fuse? i have a feeling the crappy horn setup in there now isn't wired to carry much current. does anyone know if the horn closes the circuit to ground or to the power source? or, do aftermarket horns just plug right in w/ no worries

 

hey i'm wondering if anybody's had probs w/ their new horn yet.

yea. it sucks. plain and simple, i bought the new horns before I even took delivery of the car. i knew they'd just plain suck

does this corolla need a relay for an aftermarket horn, or a higher amp fuse? i have a feeling the crappy horn setup in there now isn't wired to carry much current.

for most horns out there, probably not.

i made up a wiring harness out of 12 gauge wire to get power directly for my horns. i know its overkill, but the horns are a tad bit louder and I don't have to worry about hacking up my car's electrical system since it takes less power to power the relay than it does to power the factory horn.

does anyone know if the horn closes the circuit to ground or to the power source? or, do aftermarket horns just plug right in w/ no worries

the factory horn uses a single positive wire. the horns ground themselves via the mounting bracket. if your aftermarket horn doesn't ground themselves similarly (many don't) then you will just have to add an extra wire to ground the horns.

 

pinoyesv6 thanks for the info!

 

anybody know the exact size of bolt to go into the second prethreaded hole? or how to fnd out?

 

i just took the first bolt out and took it to the hardware store

 

If I remember correctly the thread size is an m8, or m10 but definetly a metric bolt

 

Dejavu or what? the 9th gen guys also have a wimpy horn thread going on right now. :lol:

here's my contribution.... Air horns!

 

YES all toyota horns are just a straight plug and play ... i didnt even need to take off my fron bumper.. and as far as costs go I got mine for free

 

Wait wait! you mean there's a better sounding Toyota horn that we can go and get for free?

 

Air Horns

Does anyone know how to install these air horns on a 2010 Corolla CE?