Horn very intermittent - uh ohhh.

[Filters]

Ooooookay so.....for some unknown reason my horn has decided to work only when it wants to and seems to have something to do with the sensor pads on the steering wheel more than anything. Even at a stand still on the drive it's very intermittent.
Loose wire maybe?

When I press the horn and it decides that it doesn't want to work, the interior light flickers a bit :S
I've checked fuses and they're all fine.

I really am a bit stumped and living up country lanes with bat sh*t insane farmers and their tractors :quiet: tanking it around blind corners.....my horn is vital to me so any help would be appreciated.

 

[Tony Hunter]

Hit with LARGE hammer a few times, works 99% of the time. They get shitty under there.

 

[Filters]

Hit with LARGE hammer a few times, works 99% of the time. They get s**tty under there.

.....surely there's a less erm....deadly way??
Knowing my luck the airbag would go off sending the hammer through my face!

 

[MicKPM]

I think what Tony was trying to say was scare it with the sight of a hammer and then check the connections at the horn itself (In the NSF wheel arch area) as they are prone for getting crudded up which causes your problem.

Then again, he may have just been trying to see if you'd actually take a hammer to your steering wheel? You just never know with Mr Hunter lol

 

[GrahamS]

Remove the airbag and short the 2 horn wires together. If it works then it's likely a problem with the contacts on the wheel. Otherwise check the horn like Mick said.

 

[Filters]

I think what Tony was trying to say was scare it with the sight of a hammer and then check the connections at the horn itself (In the NSF wheel arch area) as they are prone for getting crudded up which causes your problem.

Then again, he may have just been trying to see if you'd actually take a hammer to your steering wheel? You just never know with Mr Hunter lol

That sounds like it could well be the cause then, these lanes get shitted up in the winter!

I will be honest, I did consider taking a hammer to it, mainly due to the annoyance when it didn't work earlier.
Builders across the road must think I'm nuts...sat inside the car on the driveway laptop on the passenger seat cursing and screaming at the steering wheel whilst "trying" to sort the cause of the problem.

 

[Filters]

Remove the airbag and short the 2 horn wires together. If it works then it's likely a problem with the contacts on the wheel. Otherwise check the horn like Mick said.

Cheers graz, I'll have a check of the connectors like Mick suggested and if the issue's still there I'll give that a go.

 

[Tony Hunter]

Lol, I didn't mean hit the steering wheel ffs. Get under the front and hit it.

 

[GrahamS]

Tony there's no point in telling fibs. You were just waiting for the thread titled "hit the airbag, it went off and I got a hammer impaled in my face"

 

[Tony Hunter]

 

[Sunglasses_Ron]

Tony there's no point in telling fibs. You were just waiting for the thread titled "hit the airbag, it went off and I got a hammer impaled in my face"

lol !!!

 

[CRS-Mike]

3 things that have been faults on my horn.
1 hit the horn with a hammer.
2 pull the connector out of the horn, clean and reinsert.

And.....
3 lift the cover from the steering wheel at the top, if you look in there you will see a red and black wire. If either of these looses the solder joint, you find either the horn works not at all or intermittently when moving the steering wheel. You can just about get a solder iron down the gap to fix it up.
(No need to remove steering wheel and squib this way)

 

[Filters]

Tony there's no point in telling fibs. You were just waiting for the thread titled "hit the airbag, it went off and I got a hammer impaled in my face"

I don't normally take the clarkson approach to fixing things, though this time i was tempted!

3 things that have been faults on my horn.
1 hit the horn with a hammer.
2 pull the connector out of the horn, clean and reinsert.

And.....
3 lift the cover from the steering wheel at the top, if you look in there you will see a red and black wire. If either of these looses the solder joint, you find either the horn works not at all or intermittently when moving the steering wheel. You can just about get a solder iron down the gap to fix it up.
(No need to remove steering wheel and squib this way)

Shall be having a closer look in the morning now as its a bit dark but cheers for the input fella.

 

[ThomasBrentnall]

Filters did you sort yours? I'm having horn issues too!

 

[Chris_Beer]

My old horn used to sound like a dying walrus

I replaced it but the connection was also bad and caused intermittency so renewed that and its been peach ever since

 

[Filters]

@Filters did you sort yours? I'm having horn issues too!

Yeah it seemed to be a loose/crudded up connection!
Try the connection on the horn itself under the bumper. Failing that have a look at the connections behind the steering wheel.

 

[ThomasBrentnall]

Yeah it seemed to be a loose/crudded up connection!
Try the connection on the horn itself under the bumper. Failing that have a look at the connections behind the steering wheel.

Cheers mate

 

[ThomasBrentnall]

My old horn used to sound like a dying walrus

I replaced it but the connection was also bad and caused intermittency so renewed that and its been peach ever since

Mine is sounding exactly the same!