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Newbie stumped (dashboard fuse location)

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03 Mar 2020 14:33 #219326 by Clutha
So, new (56 plate) arrival horn no worky, 1st diy job.
Got an owners manual, fuse box cover not where it says it is.

Give us a starter for 10, puleese.

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03 Mar 2020 15:25 #219327 by Lambert
Check the wires to the horn they can snap. The fuse box is above the bonnet pull in the driver's footwell.

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03 Mar 2020 15:49 #219329 by Clutha
Replied by Clutha on topic Newbie stumped (dashboard fuse location)
I had the horn connectors off, looked ok, thought a fuse check would be next easy option.
Two days driving around since taxed, loving it!

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03 Mar 2020 17:01 #219332 by gusthegorilla
The Jimny horn is an abysmal piece of rubbish, designed to satisfy the law, and nothing more..!!!!
Buy a Stabilo Nautilus, wire it via a relay...then spend your days scaring the hell out of old folks...!!!!


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03 Mar 2020 20:16 #219340 by Soeley
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03 Mar 2020 21:09 - 03 Mar 2020 21:11 #219341 by Max Headroom
+2 For the Stebel Nautilus.
I chose the Compact version which, by making a carefully angled bracket out of a gash bit of stainless I had kicking around, have fitted it in same (almost) place as the original horn





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03 Mar 2020 21:48 - 03 Mar 2020 21:50 #219345 by Scimike
Thanks Max, Soeley and Gus for reminding me to get a Nautilus, after a Google I just ordered it from a company I had dealings with when I had my Scimitar, it's a small world.
I had need to use the Jimny horn last week and it sounded - very small, not big enough to make itself heard almost. Hope the Nautilus sorts this problem and gives my Jimny a voice.

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03 Mar 2020 22:00 - 03 Mar 2020 22:30 #219346 by Max Headroom
I think Halfrauds sell them - I'm alsmost 100% certain I saw some in there last time I was at the Evesham branch and recall thinking I must fit one to Wonder woman's car - her's is as bad as the original Jimny one

Just had a quick glance on the Halfrauds site and nothing shows up - but then the site is one of the worst I've come across for finding anything

I also notice mine is NOT the compact version as I initially thought - mine is just the standard Stebel Nautilus, so not sure how differently the 'compact' version would fit.


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04 Mar 2020 06:03 #219349 by Lambert
Sorry but you're all wrong, big daft loud horns don't suit a Jimny, it need to have the little meep meep noise of the standard car,it's not a Scania tractor and doesn't need to sound like one. :laugh:

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04 Mar 2020 07:17 #219352 by kirkynut
The Jimny fuse box is in a panel under the driver's right knee on a UK right hand drive Jimny. You have to go upside down in the driver's footwell to access it!

My horn expired due to its location at the front, exposed to all the weather. I replaced it with whatever the motor spares shop up the road had loose under the counter, which is still a rubbish little meep, meep like Lambert says.

I have however fitted a Claxon completely separately for those moments when I want to get someone's attention playfully, rather than in a near crash situation. I think it's quite funny and my boy loves it!

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04 Mar 2020 08:16 - 04 Mar 2020 08:22 #219357 by Max Headroom
Kirkynut I'm about to fit a Klaxon for the exact same reasons! I was a bit surprised at the size of it though - have you any photos of where/how you fitted yours?

Unfortunately Lambert, the lame and weak "meep-meep" of the original horn does not have the same impact on the A'holes that pull out in front of you or unexpectedly turn across you on the days when you are doing your "invisible act" (as happened during my trip to and from the last Jimny meet).
Moreover they are superb for lambasting the idiots sat at traffic lights texting, and for the morons that stop at an empty roundabout and appear to wait for traffic to turn up ;)


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04 Mar 2020 08:32 #219359 by gusthegorilla
What a Killjoy...!!!!!!!!


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