One day several weeks ago for no good reason my horn started honking. Apparently there's a short somewhere, because it wouldn't quit. After a minute or two of messing with it I pulled the fuse. The really crazy thing is it was just sitting there. The motor wasn't running, no one was slamming any doors, nothing like that. Just sitting there. And then the horn started. Really wacked.
The bad part about it is both the cruise buttons and the shift-lock control are on the same fuse.
Dad and I figured we'd just disconnect the wires from the horn... and then we discovered the horn is buried under the left front headlight, so far down you can't even see which wires go to it, let alone disconnect them.
Anyone else ever come across this problem? Anyone got any ideas or suggestions?
I have ideas but you have to get down to the horn's wires and then track down its relay. Or maybe the switch in the steering is broken and is in "always on" state.
Just for fun, my horn did the contrary of yours, it stopped working. I replaced it 2 times with used ones from identical scrap cars. They broke too. Then my best friend gave me his '76 Oldsmobile horn. People are very impressed to hear such a sound from such a small car. This old horn has been running flawlessly for 3 years.
My dad had a Dodge truck that did the same thing. turned out the switch had gone bad. more precisely it was the foam between the contacts that had dried out and failed.
He was sitting in the house wondering what idiot was out front honking. lol
Someone called CarTalk about this last week. They suggested he got to the dealer since taking the wheel apart is the only way to fix a switch. Tearing apart a steering wheel with an airbag is not a job for the do-it-yourselfer.
When my pop was younger he was driving down the street in his new car (a triumph!) and tooted some women on the pavement. They all looked and he tooted again. Unfortunately the horn button (centre of the steering wheel) popped off and flew into the back seat meaning the horn wouldn't stop..he had to stop the car, pop the bonnet and disconnect the horn...very amusing.
Hahaha, I was driving to high school once and my cars horn just started honking every time the wheel went slightly to the right... people kept thinking I was honking at them till I jumped out at a stoplight, dove under the trunk (volkswagen, with the trunk in front, and the horn is only accessible from underneath) and yanked the wires out of it.
Dang horn still doesn't work...
Sam
EDIT: the problem then by the way was the turn signal auto-cancel (the thing that clicks it off when you stop turning) was grounding the steering column.
This old horn has been running flawlessly for 3 years.
) this one doesn't have an airbag. I suppose it's too old.
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