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mine is great, 2025 model. But yeah, teh alarm sound when you lock teh car, is most probably missplaced by one of the engineers who was assemling Barbie car!
Did they change for MY25? Mine is too weak. Whenever it alarms (walkaway without locking door or double clicking the lock button on the fob), it's embarrassingly weak sound. Even my wife thinks it's funny sound unlike the look and stance of Defender. Mine is MY23.5
Did they change for MY25? Mine is too weak. Whenever it alarms (walkaway without locking door or double clicking the lock button on the fob), it's embarrassingly weak sound. Even my wife thinks it's funny sound unlike the look and stance of Defender. Mine is MY23.5
That is technically not the horn that makes that sound, but the anti-theft alarm. You can disable it in the settings: press the settings icon > all settings > safety & security > audible lock warning.
Did they change for MY25? Mine is too weak. Whenever it alarms (walkaway without locking door or double clicking the lock button on the fob), it's embarrassingly weak sound. Even my wife thinks it's funny sound unlike the look and stance of Defender. Mine is MY23.5
My alarm sound, and the actual horn are totally different on my 2025. I have a feeling they where referencing old school LRs with the alarm armed / disarmed sound.
It should be quite obvious that the horn, when you press the steering wheel horn button while driving, to alert other drivers of your presence and the reduced volume ‘meep’ when locking is designed intentionally that way. I, for one, actually like that LR engineers thought this through. It is muted so that YOU know that you have locked your vehicle, not the rest of the neighborhood. To me there is nothing more annoying than hearing my neighbors lock their car at all hours and having to listen to a full-on horn blast, especially when they decided they forgot a thing or two, or three, and lock and relock their car with the resounding horn to go with it. It is essentially a courtesy to be able to lock your vehicle, hear the affirming muted ‘meep’ and not feel like a jerk to the neighborhood by letting everyone know, “hey, I’m home and I just locked my car”. I try to be unobtrusive out of respect to my neighbors. More car makers should follow LR’s example. No need to wake the neighbors coming home from a late dinner or arriving from a late flight. There is an AirBnB in my neighborhood and with up to nine cars, in and out at all hours, the constant horn blasts are a PITA. I wish they would outlaw these types of rentals in residential neighborhoods. It’s like living near a motel. I don’t wish that on anyone.
To me there is nothing more annoying than hearing my neighbors lock their car at all hours and having to listen to a full-on horn blast, especially when they decided they forgot a thing or two, or three, and lock and relock their car with the resounding horn to go with it.
I wish I could upvote this more. I don't even know why there's a noise for locking the car to be honest. A slight flash of the lights or something would suffice. I'm not trying to prove the size of my manhood by the volume of my lock chirp. Not sure why it needs to be loud.
Yeah, I think I was assuming the locking meep was the same sound the horn makes. I can’t remember ever blowing the horn while driving, so I just assumed it was the same
I've tried to get at it, but unfortunately that 'secondary sounder' for the locking sound is in a pretty tough to reach spot...
I think it'd be easy to swap it out with a perfectly normal sounding beeper of some sort... if I could get to it. But unfortunately I'm not trying remove that entire fuse panel to get below it. I'd love some tips if anyone has a better suggestion on how to get there...
"Turns out the sound doesn't come from the car's normal horns. It comes outta this thing... called the "Passive Sounder".
Its somewhere along the firewall, below the cowl or fusebox. I can some what pinpoint it when pressing the button and my head under the hood. Only tried it a few times for fear of going deaf.
Only problem is I can't get my eyes on it and can't figure out how to get to it. Theres only a certain amount of disassembly that'd make it worth while for me to get my hands on it... but has anyone got any ideas on how to get to it?
I know its not possible from the underside. I've takent he wheel off and the plastic/felt arch protector and theres just body work above it. Presumably its sitting right above this body panel.
