hey guys,

i set my car alarm off just to hear it and it is awful, way to quiet for my liking!! if my car is broken into i wan tto wake the street, not just the ground around the car

when changing the horn im guessing its just positive and negative wires?

anyone got any ideas on this?

am gonna do it tonight as i have another horn which is much louder and sounds better from another cat1 alarm that i never fitted to my previous car.

cheers!

Dont know how its done but the bf fitted a Sparco sports horn. Sounded a little less.... limp

I thought the alarm sound isnt the horn..

no, not the horn, but u know wat i mean, couldnt think of a better word (speaker if u want lol)

its way too quiet, am gonna give it a go, hopefully it will be easy to change.

Ohhh the actualy alarm horn as it were lol sorry

It's called a battery backed sounder, is fitted in the left hand rear quater panel and you can't change it, sorry.

Does the job enough to get Thatcham 1 though

alrite ok kl, ah well.

my mate set mine off yesterday by using the key on the boot and was like thats such a s*** noise it sounds like a lorry reversing, which thinking about it does!!

Nooo, it's nowhere near as loud as a lorry reversing warning!

is there anything at all that can be done to change the ST alarm noise?

can an additional alarm sound be wired in too?

someone on fstoc has linked theres to there horn i think

its ok, its been done, wasnt hard, i put the extra one in the boot, but too quiet in there, so getting re routed to engine bay tonight. it its changeable.

theres inly a positive, negative and signal wire going into the buzzer. easy to get to aswell, located slightly righ of the back passenger speaker, plastics all held on by clips and few screws.

took 2 hours last night to finish wiring up the extra buzzer

Would changing the alarm sounder affect the insurance, you know what there are like any excuse not to pay out if they find out you have in affect tampered with the alarm

Probably as your messing with a cat 1 alarm, if you mess with it the insurance company could play funny.

its just the buzzer that has been tampered with, and im on the process of getting another one for spare, so it can just be plugged in if the car is going into ford or anything

doesnt take long to change.

I think that is pathetic if the insurance company did kick up a fuss about an alarm sound when it's actually louder! You've improved it! It's now more of a deterant to stop thieves, surely isn't it?

Shame we can't improve things on our cars to still be in respect of the insurance... There should be a clause in the contract. You can improve safety and security. But yeah performance then you've gotta declare it haha!!!

ye its louder now, so will actually wake me up now if something happens, ive still to relocate it into engine bay as its quiet in the boot, but when the boots open its really loud.

ive still got the orignial buzzer thing as it carries the signal, ive just tapped into the power and added an extra buzzer out of another cat 1 alarm.

but insurance dont need to know, and will only take a short time to replace the orignal if anything happens.

i ahvent had any faults either with it, alram doesnt randomely go off or nothing.

was surprised i got it working first time

Kaxe but then they couldn't charge you for adding a roll cage or improving your brakes

Improving breaks is one thing... that's a smart thing to do that they should agree on... but a roll cage? wtf? Would you really need one of those for day to day road use? I think not

depends how crazy a driver you are, would make you feel safer, but the extra weight etc, kinda thing that would be cool to have, but not for me. big brakes in the other hand...... i want discs to fill the wheels, ultimate stopping power!

oh and btw, im away to re-route the extra buzzer to the engine bay, so will do a "how to" guide just incase anyone else is wanting to do the same.

will get it all done tonight so should be posted up late on tonight or tommorow!

haha ultimate stopping power!

Cool we will look forward to the 'how to' improvement...