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title: "Replacing a Car’s Warning Chimes With Toto’s ‘Africa’ Is Now Officially a Thing"
description: "You know, *that* song."
date: "2020-05-27"
modified: "2020-05-27"
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  - name: "James Gilboy"
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url: "https://www.thedrive.com/news/33697/replacing-a-cars-warning-chimes-with-totos-africa-is-now-officially-a-thing"
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# Replacing a Car’s Warning Chimes With Toto’s ‘Africa’ Is Now Officially a Thing

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Americans have spent their weeks of quarantine one of two ways: Some binged [*Tiger King*](<https://www.thedrive.com/news/33185/this-tiger-king-chevy-astro-van-is-more-exotic-than-any-repod-ferrari>) and spent the next month telling everyone about it, while others took on projects, like learning to bake bread or creating [highway-capable Little Tikes Cozy Coupes](<https://www.thedrive.com/news/32901/rc-cozy-coupe-capable-of-highway-speeds-is-the-best-quarantine-project-yet>). In the spirit of the latter, one Reddit user replaced the door chime in his wife's Subaru Impreza with something altogether more entertaining—Toto's *Africa*.

Reddit user tenbits explained in a series of comments that he got the idea from [that classic video of a similarly modded Volvo](<https://www.thedrive.com/news/19079/some-madman-hacked-his-volvo-240-door-chime-to-play-africa-by-toto>), which [amused his wife](<https://old.reddit.com/r/DIY/comments/gqxq5w/i_modified_my_wifes_car_to_play_totos_africa_if/frwkpzx/?context=3>) to no end. With nowhere to drive under lockdown (and presumably, his wife's permission), tenbits set to work fitting a similar gizmo to the family Impreza, working [under the guise](<https://old.reddit.com/r/cars/comments/gqxu0j/i_modified_my_wifes_subaru_to_play_totos_africa/frx9i64/?context=3>) that it'd play Rick Astley's *Never Gonna Give You Up*, but with the ultimate [goal of playing that very same eight-bit rendition of *Africa*](<https://old.reddit.com/r/DIY/comments/gqxq5w/i_modified_my_wifes_car_to_play_totos_africa_if/frwl6ny/?context=3>).

"She saw the original video, said she liked it, so I made her one," explained tenbits.

https://youtube.com/embed/ysMmsyyW1uM

But as documented in [a long build thread hosted on Imgur](<https://imgur.com/a/23ayG61>), it turned out to be simpler to use chips pre-loaded with MP3 audio files than to go eight-bit, so tenbits wound up using the original Toto track instead. He showcased his work in a shot-for-shot [homage](<https://www.thedrive.com/news/33646/monaco-blocking-off-grand-prix-circuit-for-ferrari-f1-star-charles-leclercs-new-film>) to the video that inspired his build, which ends on a surprising note: His modified door chime can also play his wife's other favorite songs, such as Dolly Parton's *9 to 5*.

We've messaged tenbits to find out what other songs he has loaded up for his wife—one hopes that Rick Astley wasn't left out of the final rotation.

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## Author
James is a former staff writer for The Drive. He has changed the conversation around electrification, debunked misinformation online, and become a prominent hunter of what he calls "automotive cryptids."

### Author social links  
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