Headlight Chime installed.

[Eaglefreek]

I use my headlights quite often, even in the daytime and I got tired of forgetting to turn my headlights off, so I installed a chime. I used a chime from Radio Shack. It's part #273-0071 and it was $10.99. They have buzzers that are cheaper and smaller, but I wanted a chime.


I ran the ground of the chime which is the blue and black wires, to the door switch. I used a ring terminal and use the screw on the switch instead of splicing into the existing wire. It took a little persuasion to get it back in the hole.


Due to a bad back, I didn't want to crawl under the dash, so I pulled the power for the chime from the back of the dimmer switch. I used the wire that is 12v when the lights are turned on. It is red with a gray stripe. I don't like Scotchlocks, so I cut off a little of the insulation, took a small sharp awl to create an eye in the wire and then inserted the red wire from the chime and wrapped it around a couple times. I soldered it and then used some liquid electrical tape.


I mounted the chime behind the left front speaker using a small cable tie to an existing hole.


Here's a quick crappy video of the sound of the chime. Unfortunately, the chime puts me in the mood for a 7-11 Big Bite with chili and cheese, but there isn't a 7-11 for 300+ miles from me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRO0jE47jCs&feature=youtu.be

[TominMO]

Well done, and thanx for the tutorial.

[jawja jim]

Yes indeed, this should interest many. I think I already have that Radio Shack chime laying around. I had bought it to replace a tach cluster chime that didn't work, but when checking it out , discovered that it was reversed polarity(apparently had never worked) and desoldered and reversed it and it worked fine.

[David88]

This is awesome. Thanks for sharing this. This will be at the top of my to do list for my DD.

[Eaglefreek]

Thanks. The funny thing is that after taking the video, since I turned the lights on out of the car with the window down, I left the lights on for 10 minutes. Initially, I thought about doing it using a relay so that the chime will come on after turning the key off, but it would require a few more minutes of wiring. In case someone is interested, you would use a typical Bosch 5 pin relay with an 87a pin. You would run the ground of the chime/buzzer to chassis ground, the 12v+ wire of the chime to pin 87a of the relay, 12v+ when the headlights are on to pin 30, chassis ground to pin 86 and 12v+ when the key is in the run position to pin 85. This way when you turn the key off, power from the 30 pin goes to 87a. So if you leave the lights on, the chime will sound as soon as the key is turned off. Unless you have to crawl out the window or hatch or your door switch doesn't work, the door switch method will work just fine.

[bravekozak]

A better way to avoid splices, is to crrimp two wires into the same terminal. No chance of having a short.

[bravekozak]

You are right. The hot wire to the door switch is very thick. Here, I decided to splice, to get power to the courtesy lights. I decided to install a connector, just in case I ever wanted to remove the wiring easily in the future. Since you already have the wiring hooked up, you may want to consider installing a couple of Jeep courtesy lights too!

I only spliced on the right hand door. There is a stock connector (C217) on the left hand side, under dash, where I performed my crimp two wires into one terminal routine.