So yesterday, the day I sold my Loyale, for the first time ever I heard the door chime.

 

The sound! Absolutely hilarious! I about fell out of the car laughing!

 

It's not a tick, and it's not a buzz... not even a click or a beep or some synthetic sound like modern cars. Nope, it's a freaking bicycle bell.

 

Mine must have been a bit gummed up too, because it was all weak and irregular in its rhythm. I about died when I heard it. Poor little Subaru! "Wait!! Don't sell me!! Look! I'm still... alive... *cough cough*"

 

 

Are these things hard to pull out of the cars? I might have to pick one up the next time I'm at the junkyard. To retrofit to the newer cars, or.. you know.. for my bike.

My BumbleBeast has that Chimes inside a Small Black Box... I Had to Disconnect it when my Baby Daughter was Born, because when I opened the Door, the Chime waked her up.

On my Wife's Kia Sephia it was a Digital Box and I needed to remove that annoying sound, so I Removed the mini Speaker from that Box and placed there a LED Light that Blinks instead of that Noisy digitalized sound.

it is Nice for Subaru to use Real Chimes like old Phones got, instead digitalized noises.

Kind Regards.

It's between the steering column and the stereo. If you notice a little 1 inch square 'vent' to the left of the radio, it is immediately behind there. Little box with a pink plug.

Lol sounds like it didn't wanna be sold it's kinda sad. Lol

I didn't hear mine for the first 2 years.

then miraculously 1 day it just started chiming again.

it is for sure an odd little noise

Haha, when I first got mine, I wondered why it didn't chime. Thought maybe it came with the power locks or something (my dad had an 88 GL, so I knew some had it). A year later, when I was changing my transmission, I say a little pink connector under my dash. Well, I couldn't just leave it unplugged, turns out, 'twas the chime. Although, at the time, it sounded quite diseased.

Bumping my own old thread.

So I'm feeling nostalgic. Is anyone parting out an older Subaru, and happen to have one of these for sale? Ideally with a short section of the car's wiring harness, so I can splice it and retain the factory connector.

 

Must be the ding-dong mechanical bell type, not an electronic chime or the one that plays sound through the radio.

 

:D

 

Also, another thread I found while looking for mine:

http://www.ultimatesubaru.org/forum/topic/30956-help-me-find-my-tinker-bell/

 

... And a sample of the sound (skip to 0:35)

http://youtube .com/watch?v=qNpgvSKhOsQ

(Take out the spaces if the link above doesn't work)

Edited September 30, 201510 yr by Red92

The EA81Ts all had the door chime installed, but not wired into the dash harness.  When I swapped my digi-dash to analog, I inadvertently connected the chime to the harness.

 

The first time I powered the system up the door was open.  I clearly remember the chime, which had never made noise in the last 25 years, creak to life and start chiming away as if it had always been connected.

 

rrrrrRRRRRING! Ding! Ding! Ding! Ding! Ding!

 

It was the funniest thing!  And then I unplugged it again because it was so obnoxious...

when i don't want mine to chime i wiggle the key in the ignition and it stops, funny, but i do love the ding ding.... ding ding.... ding ding. my friends always ask is that the sound this car makes when the door is open? also if you remount the little box and actually level it out, you can make it louder or make the first ding louder then the second or the second ding louder than the first, anyways i got mine to where i like it and if i am working on my car and my door has to be open, i wiggle the key and it stops, guess my ignition switch has play somewhere but im not complaining.

At least it's a door chime for the US model. Aus never got it, but JDM models use it as an overspeed warning. Which for their cars is 100km/h.

Damn annoying when you've got a 110km/h limit in your country

 

To work it, the back of the speedo had an extra ring around the outside, with a sensor that activate when the ring wasn't in between any more. I initially disconnected the plug, but then managed to trim the ring back so it only came on at 120

My main GL never had a working chime... I think most of my projects were missing them too. (but it did work on a few of them)

everytime i go to the junkyard and see an old subaru, i take the door chime with me, $3 they charge for one which is great, i currently have 4spares in a box lol, i've added it to every vehicle i own, from a 79 to a 1993 impreza, even though they never came with them.

Edited October 4, 201510 yr by Subasaurus