Fitting Twin tone horns

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samr
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Wed Oct 11, 2006 12:31 pm

Hi All
As you may well know, 318i's only have a single tone horn, which I find quite embaressing!
Just wondering if I buy the second deeper tone horn, how do I wire it/mount it to the car?
Apparently it goes above the front fog lamps?

Any help much appreciated
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Wed Oct 11, 2006 1:51 pm

The double horn set up on an E30 uses a different main car body wiring loom and a different bodyshell, so I doubt if you'll be fitting them in an OE manner.
Easiest way is to stick both horns on the same stud behind the grill in a sort of inverted V arrangement, and just wire them in parallel.
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Thu Oct 12, 2006 8:17 pm

Many thanks for your advice Brianmooooooooore
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Thu Oct 12, 2006 8:22 pm

slightly off topic, but any advice to sort the "dying cow" horn on my newly aquired iS?
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320Touring wrote:slightly off topic, but any advice to sort the "dying cow" horn on my newly aquired iS?
There's a stopped up hole with an adjuster in it on top of the horn, which may bring it back to life for a while, but I've never found it very successful as a long term fix.
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320Touring wrote:slightly off topic, but any advice to sort the "dying cow" horn on my newly aquired iS?
must better than my road runner effort! meep

go to the scrappy's and get a twin tone off a modern rep mobile, they seem to have good uns!
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Thu Oct 12, 2006 8:41 pm

New OE horns from BMW aren't particularly expensive, IIRC.
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stevo wrote:
320Touring wrote:slightly off topic, but any advice to sort the "dying cow" horn on my newly aquired iS?
must better than my road runner effort! meep

go to the scrappy's and get a twin tone off a modern rep mobile, they seem to have good uns!
you'll hear it on sunday :roll:

I fancy a dukes o hazzard one
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