About Tesla Lock Sound

What this site is

Tesla Lock Sound is a free library of lock chimes for Tesla vehicles. Every file is a WAV named LockChime.wav, sized and leveled for the car's external speaker, and ready to drop onto a USB drive. There is no conversion step, no account, no paywall, and no upload limit to unlock.

The site exists because the install itself is simple but the file preparation is not. Tesla will play any WAV you give it as long as the name and the folder are exactly right, and most people who give up on a custom lock sound gave up on the file, not on the car.

Who runs it

Caleb Leigh is a Denver-based product builder and the founder of Tesla Lock Sound. He holds a computer science degree and spent years working on cybersecurity at Fortune 500 companies before building his own products at the intersection of design and AI. He started Tesla Lock Sound as a personal project: the custom lock-sound sites he found were "low quality, poorly edited, or just looked like a virus site," so he built the one he wanted instead. It is an independent project, not a company with a support desk, and it says so rather than pretending otherwise. Email reaches a real inbox and gets a real answer, usually within a few days.

Tesla Lock Sound is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to Tesla, Inc. Tesla, Model S, Model 3, Model X, Model Y, and Cybertruck are trademarks of Tesla, Inc., used here only to describe which vehicles a sound works on.

Where the sounds come from

The clips are third-party works: sound effects and audio from games, films, shows, memes, and public sound-effect archives. The site does not own them, does not relicense them, and takes no public uploads. Where a sound has a recorded source or creator, its page shows them under "source" and "credit"; not every sound has either.

Each clip is trimmed to the short window a lock chime actually occupies and re-encoded as a Tesla-compatible WAV. Clips are recorded at different levels, so the converter can raise or lower any of them.

Titles and descriptions are written to say what the sound actually is, not to pad a page. A description reads "dramatic bass hit from Vine" rather than "a unique sound for your Tesla", because the second one helps nobody choose.

How the catalog is checked

Audio links are re-checked on a schedule, and a file that stops resolving is pulled from the library rather than left to 404 in someone's browser. Duplicates that reach the catalog under different names are merged, and the retired URL permanently redirects to the surviving one so an old bookmark or a link in an article still lands somewhere useful.

Reported content is reviewed by hand. If you hold rights to something in the library and want it removed, the DMCA process is documented and valid takedown notices are acted on promptly.

What this site is not

It does not change your horn, your turn signal, or your Boombox external-driving sound. Those are separate Tesla features with separate constraints, covered in articles here but not offered as downloads.

It cannot help with Tesla account problems, service appointments, or vehicle software issues. It also cannot license audio for commercial use. The library is free to download for personal use on your own car, and nothing more than that is claimed.

The site is paid for by ads. Google AdSense shows ads in set places on the page where advertising cookies are allowed. The privacy policy covers the cookie choice.

The install, in short

• The file must be named LockChime.wav, exactly.
• It goes at Boombox/LockChime.wav on the drive.
• Format the drive as FAT32 or exFAT.
• Use a USB port that carries data (the glovebox port on newer cars; rear ports only charge).

The full walkthrough, including what to do when the car ignores the file, is in the USB install guide.