Hella Supertone
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Hella Supertone
Hi guys,
I've fitted the classic red hella supertone behind the grill of my blobeye Impreza. The installation manual is rubbish and the usual help videos I find on YouTube have been rubbish as well!
Does anyone have the idiots guide to fitting the relay etc?
The easy option would find a professional but I'd rather do it myself!
I've fitted the classic red hella supertone behind the grill of my blobeye Impreza. The installation manual is rubbish and the usual help videos I find on YouTube have been rubbish as well!
Does anyone have the idiots guide to fitting the relay etc?
The easy option would find a professional but I'd rather do it myself!
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Baisicly the new horns take more power than the original horns and if the car originally only had one horn then there is plenty more power being drawn through the original system. The relay would switch the horns via a second circuit, so the original horn wires would power the coil of the relay. So now the horns need power from somewhere else, you could take a live from the battery through a inline fuse and onto the normally open side of the relay then to the horn. Put a earth from the horns onto the chassis, now when you press the horn instead of it powering the horns direct it will power the coil on the relay and change the normally open to closed and this will make a new circuit powering the horns.
Hope that explains it.
Hope that explains it.
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I'm terrible with anything with wires in, but I have fitted some hellas using this guide:
https://youtu.be/EbiD9YRjlFU
And a month later (and lots of rain) they still work. The relay wasn't needed just some M & F spade terminals, a ring terminal, some electrical tape and wire.
https://youtu.be/EbiD9YRjlFU
And a month later (and lots of rain) they still work. The relay wasn't needed just some M & F spade terminals, a ring terminal, some electrical tape and wire.
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guys i went to fit my hella,s today and after knocking up all the wires and connects etc and working out how to remove my grille only to discover i can fit the one on the right side (beside the sti badge) but at the left side there is some pipes which look like something to do with the air con? can this be removed at all? does everyone who has fitted these have the air con removed? really wanted them done today as the weather was decent! grrrrrrrrrr!!!!!!!!!
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Here is a picture of mine fitted.
I used the row of holes that run along beside the bonnet catch, behind the top of the grill. The ones on the drivers side hold the bonnet release cable in place, so I removed one of the cable holders and put a bolt through the hole. Just be careful you don't pinch the cable when you tighten the bolt up.
Apart from removin the brackets that held the old horns in place I didn't need to move any other hardware.
I used the row of holes that run along beside the bonnet catch, behind the top of the grill. The ones on the drivers side hold the bonnet release cable in place, so I removed one of the cable holders and put a bolt through the hole. Just be careful you don't pinch the cable when you tighten the bolt up.
Apart from removin the brackets that held the old horns in place I didn't need to move any other hardware.
Last edited by Cambs_Stuart; 15 May 2016 at 08:09 PM.
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cheers stuart, mine looks the same but coming in from the left side is some piping which sits right where the left horn would sit? it must be from the air con or i read somewhere else it could be the power steering cooler? is your air con removed btw? edited to say i have a bug sti so might be different to wrx,s ?
Last edited by yabbadoo4; 15 May 2016 at 08:17 PM.
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I used the metal bars behind the hella horns to make a nice secure connection for both on the nearside.
Does anyone have a decent picture of the relay wired up. Pretty crap soo far trying to track down help.
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cheers stuart, mine looks the same but coming in from the left side is some piping which sits right where the left horn would sit? it must be from the air con or i read somewhere else it could be the power steering cooler? is your air con removed btw? edited to say i have a bug sti so might be different to wrx,s ?
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Fore the standard horns were a bit pathetic, these are louder without being ridiculous or non MOT compliant. Plus they're a relatively effective, if subtle, styling mod at no great cost and in my case were pretty easy to install.
Last edited by Cambs_Stuart; 16 May 2016 at 09:59 AM.
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