Stebel Magnum horn easy to install on a 2007 Buddy 125...
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Stebel Magnum horn easy to install on a 2007 Buddy 125...
1} Remove front legshield cover. One screw in front center, two in back on tops of corners, does it!
2} Remove wire clips from old horn. Remove old horn by unscrewing bracket bolt. (10mm socket handles it.)
3} Remove flat bracket from old horn and save it to use on the Magnum.
4} Take the plastic back cover off the Magnum, and install the Magnum on the stock bracket. Then install horn and bracket in original stock horn's spot. If you place the bell of the Magnum facing down and to the left a bit, the front legshield cover will fit right back over it w/o any problem.
And that's it, you're done! And you now have a much louder horn on your '07...!
Note: I did not install any sort of relay with this horn as several Buddy dealers have told me that it's not neccessary with the Magnum, but only with the Nautilus Air Horn which has a compressor. This Magnum now also comes stock on the 2008 125 Buddys and while it's not as loud as the bigger Nautilus Air Horn on the 150cc Buds, IMO the ease of installation more than makes up for this! And hey, this sucka is still plenty LOUD!!!
2} Remove wire clips from old horn. Remove old horn by unscrewing bracket bolt. (10mm socket handles it.)
3} Remove flat bracket from old horn and save it to use on the Magnum.
4} Take the plastic back cover off the Magnum, and install the Magnum on the stock bracket. Then install horn and bracket in original stock horn's spot. If you place the bell of the Magnum facing down and to the left a bit, the front legshield cover will fit right back over it w/o any problem.
And that's it, you're done! And you now have a much louder horn on your '07...!
Note: I did not install any sort of relay with this horn as several Buddy dealers have told me that it's not neccessary with the Magnum, but only with the Nautilus Air Horn which has a compressor. This Magnum now also comes stock on the 2008 125 Buddys and while it's not as loud as the bigger Nautilus Air Horn on the 150cc Buds, IMO the ease of installation more than makes up for this! And hey, this sucka is still plenty LOUD!!!
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I installed the nautilus compact (louder one, with relay) in my Blur over the weekend, it was pretty simple, the only real difficulty was feeding the wire through the frame, but I was kinda drunk while I was trying to do that, and too lazy to get a coathanger from the house. You do need a decent set of tools (sockets, electrical odds and ends, a drill) but it's not difficult at all.
Nathaniel's instructions are very detailed and worked great.
It is sooooo loud. It's awesome.
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Nathaniel's instructions are very detailed and worked great.
It is sooooo loud. It's awesome.
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Is it possible to get a picture of the way you've got it positioned? I just ordered the Stebel Magnum today for my 07 Buddy 50.
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I have a very similar garage work ethic. Miller High Life is the first tool I usually reach for .illnoise wrote:I was kinda drunk while I was trying to do that, and too lazy to get a coathanger from the house.
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Re: Stebel Magnum horn easy to install on a 2007 Buddy 125..
My experience with trying this was that the bell of the horn touched the front legshield cover which significantly alters the sound of the horn (quieter and kind of buzzy).Drumwoulf wrote: If you place the bell of the Magnum facing down and to the left a bit, the front legshield cover will fit right back over it w/o any problem.
YMMV, but I had to find an alternate spot for the horn and used the original bracket ziptied to a different place on the frame.
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Oh, it wasn't like that at all. It was 1AM and I'd just ridden my Vespa home from the bar, but I couldn't find my official scooter-fixing coathanger, and i didn't want to wake up my wife or daughter to get a hanger from one of the bedrooms.djelliott wrote:I have a very similar garage work ethic. Miller High Life is the first tool I usually reach for :D .illnoise wrote:I was kinda drunk while I was trying to do that, and too lazy to get a coathanger from the house.
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Now that I look at it typed out, that sounds pretty irresponsible.
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Re: Stebel Magnum horn easy to install on a 2007 Buddy 125..
Did you remove the uneccessary back plastic cover from the horn? If not, maybe that made it stick out too far? Also I reused the flat bracket metal strip that was on the old horn, as the new ones that came with the Magnum looked a bit longer...jmazza wrote:My experience with trying this was that the bell of the horn touched the front legshield cover which significantly alters the sound of the horn (quieter and kind of buzzy).Drumwoulf wrote: If you place the bell of the Magnum facing down and to the left a bit, the front legshield cover will fit right back over it w/o any problem.
YMMV, but I had to find an alternate spot for the horn and used the original bracket ziptied to a different place on the frame.
Anyway, I had no such problem, just put the bell face down and to the left a bit and reinstalled the cover. Sounds loud and great!
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Especially to your wife and daughter? Find a bar you can walk to...illnoise wrote:Oh, it wasn't like that at all. It was 1AM and I'd just ridden my Vespa home from the bar, but I couldn't find my official scooter-fixing coathanger, and i didn't want to wake up my wife or daughter to get a hanger from one of the bedrooms.djelliott wrote:I have a very similar garage work ethic. Miller High Life is the first tool I usually reach for .illnoise wrote:I was kinda drunk while I was trying to do that, and too lazy to get a coathanger from the house.
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Now that I look at it typed out, that sounds pretty irresponsible.
Bb.
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Re: Stebel Magnum horn easy to install on a 2007 Buddy 125..
Yup I did both. I may not have messed with it enough to find the perfect position for the bell but it seemed like every way I turned it, it was touching the front cover and reducing the power.Drumwoulf wrote:Did you remove the uneccessary back plastic cover from the horn? If not, maybe that made it stick out too far? Also I reused the flat bracket metal strip that was on the old horn, as the new ones that came with the Magnum looked a bit longer...jmazza wrote:My experience with trying this was that the bell of the horn touched the front legshield cover which significantly alters the sound of the horn (quieter and kind of buzzy).Drumwoulf wrote: If you place the bell of the Magnum facing down and to the left a bit, the front legshield cover will fit right back over it w/o any problem.
YMMV, but I had to find an alternate spot for the horn and used the original bracket ziptied to a different place on the frame.
Anyway, I had no such problem, just put the bell face down and to the left a bit and reinstalled the cover. Sounds loud and great!
Which one do you have in there? Low or Hi tone?
I bought both, started with the low but now use the hi.
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Re: Stebel Magnum horn easy to install on a 2007 Buddy 125..
Low. It's waht got mailed to me from Scooterworks. Do you like the high better?jmazza wrote:Yup I did both. I may not have messed with it enough to find the perfect position for the bell but it seemed like every way I turned it, it was touching the front cover and reducing the power.Drumwoulf wrote:Did you remove the uneccessary back plastic cover from the horn? If not, maybe that made it stick out too far? Also I reused the flat bracket metal strip that was on the old horn, as the new ones that came with the Magnum looked a bit longer...jmazza wrote: My experience with trying this was that the bell of the horn touched the front legshield cover which significantly alters the sound of the horn (quieter and kind of buzzy).
YMMV, but I had to find an alternate spot for the horn and used the original bracket ziptied to a different place on the frame.
Anyway, I had no such problem, just put the bell face down and to the left a bit and reinstalled the cover. Sounds loud and great!
Which one do you have in there? Low or Hi tone?
I bought both, started with the low but now use the hi.
Namaste,
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Re: Stebel Magnum horn easy to install on a 2007 Buddy 125..
I don't think I have a serious preference. I started with the low but I think the hi might be a bit more noticeable. Now that I've ridden with the hi for a while I was thinking of swapping out back to the low and getting a feel for how people respond.Drumwoulf wrote:Low. It's waht got mailed to me from Scooterworks. Do you like the high better?jmazza wrote:
Which one do you have in there? Low or Hi tone?
I bought both, started with the low but now use the hi.
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I installed the Stebel Magnum today on my Buddy 50. It was very easy to do. I have the hi tone and it sounds very much like a car horn. Here's a picture of how I had to position it to get the front panel back on:
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The stebel website has sound clips:un_designer wrote:jmazza do you have a way of recording sound and posting it as an mp3 file? it would be cool to hear the differences between the low and hi tones. thx.
http://www.stebel.it/stebel/index2006.htm
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You know... I heard these horns are really loud. In fact a friend of my cousin's friend's brother once dropped his cell phone out the car window when a scooter rider beeped his horn. Scared him to death it was soooo loud. Then someone ran over that phone and crushed it into a million pieces – right there on the road. Damn scooter riders!
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Yep, works GREAT! I ended up tapping into the orange horn wire. I looked for the solid yellow wire, found TWO solid yellow wires running side by side, got confused and said...ok, let's try orange. No problems there. I feel much more visible in the dark.Lil Buddy wrote: BTW Jessica.....I reconize that running light adapter
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That's the bigger Stebel air horn. The Magnum won't scare anyone, it just sounds like a fairly loud car horn...italiaguy wrote:You know... I heard these horns are really loud. In fact a friend of my cousin's friend's brother once dropped his cell phone out the car window when a scooter rider beeped his horn. Scared him to death it was soooo loud. Then someone ran over that phone and crushed it into a million pieces – right there on the road. Damn scooter riders!
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See, it is possible to get a picture...Jessica wrote:I installed the Stebel Magnum today on my Buddy 50. It was very easy to do. I have the hi tone and it sounds very much like a car horn. Here's a picture of how I had to position it to get the front panel back on:
That's exactly where I installed mine too, and it works fine...
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Yeah, except the damn fools put the SAME sound on both horn sound clips!Lil Buddy wrote:The stebel website has sound clips:un_designer wrote:jmazza do you have a way of recording sound and posting it as an mp3 file? it would be cool to hear the differences between the low and hi tones. thx.
http://www.stebel.it/stebel/index2006.htm
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Help! I tried to install a stebel magnum horn (TM80) in my '07 Buddy.
First, there was no way that I could see to fit it where the old horn was without it touching the front panel - I mean, no way to do just a switch.
Second, when I put the old horn back in, it didn't work! If I pushed hard on one part of it, it would work. Otherwise it just kind of clicked.
So now I have no horn at all.
I don't know if this is helpful, but here's a picture with the old horn in place, and a picture of the stebel magnum.
First, there was no way that I could see to fit it where the old horn was without it touching the front panel - I mean, no way to do just a switch.
Second, when I put the old horn back in, it didn't work! If I pushed hard on one part of it, it would work. Otherwise it just kind of clicked.
So now I have no horn at all.
I don't know if this is helpful, but here's a picture with the old horn in place, and a picture of the stebel magnum.
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Did you find it loud?
Bikewebworld wasn't too impressed:
http://www.webbikeworld.com/motorcycle- ... el-magnum/
Bikewebworld wasn't too impressed:
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Pics of how I have it installed. Like I said, it still requires some moving around to make sure it doesn't hit the legshield but I've had it in there for quite a while with no movement. The zip tie is pretty tight.
General placement:
Detail:
Hope this helps!
General placement:
Detail:
Hope this helps!
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Hmmm....interesting how my Buddy looks a little different from this. Oh well, I installed mine back in the same location where the original horn was placed, but tilted the holding bracket into a position at about 11:00 or so.jmazza wrote:Pics of how I have it installed. Like I said, it still requires some moving around to make sure it doesn't hit the legshield but I've had it in there for quite a while with no movement. The zip tie is pretty tight.
Now, what's the problem with the horn touching the legshield? And by legshield are you talking about the front piece of plastic that you took off to get to the horn? If not....then I can't see how in the world it could ever touch the back side......the part where the ignition is inserted.
Mine seems to work fine, so I'm curious as to what I'm missing here. I'm pretty sure that my horn touches the front buddy plastic cover.