Horn Replacement Recommendations

The low-note horn on my '03 XtraCab recently started failing. The high-note trumpet always works, but as often as not, the low one doesn't. I figure I have three choices...

1) Do nothing. I still have a horn.
2) Replace the low-note trumpet.
3) Replace both trumpets.

Option 1 really isn't an option. I'm from the "fix things when they break" school. Plus, the high-note horn on its own is pretty prissy sounding. It's sounds like my grandma's Chevette in 1985.

I'm leaning towards Option 3. I figure that while I'm in there, I might as well fix both. But I don't know- is that just a waste? Are horns like headlights, should you replace both when you replace one? Or if it isn't broken, should I leave the high one alone and just replace the one that needs replacing? Anyone here just replaced one, then found the other one failed shortly afterwards?

Thanks for any insight.

 

Hella horns; Super cheap on Amazon! I've been satisfied with mine...

 

@BartMaster1234

 

I use the Hella horns, but I also installed an electronic air horn from Lamphus as well.

 

This is what I used for the air horn.

LAMPHUS SoundAlert 12V 100W Electric Police Air Horn Kit [Slim Speaker] [118-124dB] [Hands-Free] Train Truck Police Siren Horn for Vehicles Truck UTV ATV Car POV

LAMPHUS SoundAlert 12V 100W Electric Police Air Horn Kit [Slim Speaker] [118-124dB] [Hands-Free] Train Truck Police Siren Horn for Vehicles Truck UTV ATV Car POV

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01LYHQEJF

For the factory horn trumpets, I used these.

HELLA 012010901 Black 12V BX Trumpet Horn Kit (Toyota)

$30 HELLA 012010901 Black 12V BX Trumpet Horn Kit (Toyota)

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01EG18SFM

 

Do it right add a air compressor and Air Horn!!

One of those fire truck horns would attract attention.

 

Install red hella supertone horn kit. I just did that to my 1995 Tacoma and it sounds like a subaru now haha

 

I've run into a problem here. Based on recommendations in the forum, I bought the Hella horns. I replaced them, and....same problem. High works, low doesn't. I switched the horns, and the low works but the high doesn't- so the problem isn't the horns, it's something else. I cleaned the connection on the non-working one, and no luck. I left the low one where the high one is supposed to go- I figure, if I'm gonna have one, the low one sounds better.

If it was the relay, would this happen? That is, could a bad relay cause just one to go out?

 

HELLA Supertones. Inexpensive, very easy install, scary loud.

 

How do I wire these up properly? Do I need to add extra wire?

 

Swap relays first, to see if that is the issue. But yes, you have to run wiring to the fuse box.

 

I thought these were plug n play

 

I’m partial to Fiamm

25+ yrs ago, I blew my whole grocery store paycheck on these. Back then made in Italy.
Unknown now
But
Add shows ASIN part#!

I have taken them off/reinstalled on multiple vehicles
Currently they are on my RSTi
128 dB

Don’t buy ‘look alike’ Hella’s
They suck

$29 FIAMM 74100 El Grande

https://www.amazon.com/FIAMM-74100-...c675a6cf1c5c342d9f97659d11c23337&gad_source=1