Beetle OEM single tone horn replacement?

My 2014 Beetle Convertible TDI has an OEM single hi-tone horn that is weak sounding to me. Has anyone had any luck with replacing the horn with dual tone VW horns, or adding a second low tone for a healthier sound? Or perhaps third party horns that might hook up to the OEM harness? Any help would be appreciated...

The upper model Beetle has the dual tone horn. I tried just adding the other horn to my wife's Beetle it sounds very...odd. I think the single horn is a different tone than either horn on a dual tone setup.

Any case you could order both high and low tone horns, mount then next to each other, make a little jumper from the existing harness to power the second horn. But as much as they cost I would probably just install Hella red heads (horns).

Jason

SilverGhost said:

But as much as they cost I would probably just install Hella red heads (horns).

Jason

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Good call. I did that on a 1984 Mercedes 300D Euro gray car. Worked great.

I'm not sure how the plugs work, but if you could use a horn off of an older Beetle that would work great. My '04 has a really nice and loud horn. My aunt has a '13 Beetle and the horn is really quiet, people don't even react to it.

nickfancher1 said:

I'm not sure how the plugs work, but if you could use a horn off of an older Beetle that would work great. My '04 has a really nice and loud horn. My aunt has a '13 Beetle and the horn is really quiet, people don't even react to it.

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The 2004 uses the same dual tone horns that they put on the upper model 2013 Beetle. They save a few cents by using the single horn on the lesser models.

Jason