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Horn electrical fire need help to fix!!



  Renault clio 1.2 16v
Hi, im not the greatest with electrics as you can tell from the title of this thread however after swapping a sparco horn button for horn button with a renault logo on thr car seemed to hate it and created alot of smoke (disconnected it withing 5 seconds) and has now burned through the positive wire (see pictures) i was wondering if its possible to get a wiring diagram and some assistance of the horn wiring to trace how far its gone and maybe create an alternative wiring diagrm so that i have a horn and no fires ideally. Hopefully someone could let me know how safe it would be to start and run the car with this wiring as i dont want any fires for obvious reason😁😅 it seems it short circuited to the boss
 

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finch wxm

ClioSport Club Member
  clio 172
Yeah that's not correct for 182 as that spring is grounding to boss , the OMP is the same you have to cut and remove thev spring clip so it doesnt earth to the boss when you press horn
 
  Renault clio 1.2 16v
Yeah that's not correct for 182 as that spring is grounding to boss , the OMP is the same you have to cut and remove thev spring clip so it doesnt earth to the boss when you press horn
Sorry my heads a bit stressed at the moment tryna see whats going on with it, what is it u mean by spring clip
 

finch wxm

ClioSport Club Member
  clio 172
That metal ring is touching the spade terminal which is then grounding on the boss. This is a not correct for these cars as a lot of people have had issues if you do a search buddy. Don't refit as is !
 
  Renault clio 1.2 16v
That metal ring is touching the spade terminal which is then grounding on the boss. This is a not correct for these cars as a lot of people have had issues if you do a search buddy. Don't refit as is !
Ahhh okay im with u now

Ive since removed the clock spring and have looked at all the wires i can see, the wires going to the clock spring appear okay with no signs of burning to the wires insulation or plug connectors themselves.
But on the clock spring itself the positive wire for the horn has burnt the wires from the back of the clockspring (see picture, have pulled the 2 wires to the fron of the clock spring) and to the 2 wires coming out the clockspring which go to the horn button, i have wrapped it with tape but if i left this disconnected and cut the wires off i wouldnt have a horn but would it cause any more smoke?

I taped them up to stop any short circuits to then reconnect the battery and see what happens, if nothing ill cut the wires out
 

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