[s-cars] Horns stopped working?!?

[Taka Mizutani]

Mark-
Thanks for the help.

If I hook up a multimeter to the horn connector, I should see
electrical current, even if the ground might be bad?

I'll check the ground first, as that might be the most suspect. I
might re-run the ground directly to the negative post of the battery.

I think the probability of both horns going bad simultaneously during
use is just too weird.

The ground is shared, so bad ground or bad connection to the horn is
most likely, I'll have to check the wiring again.

Taka



On Wed, 09 Mar 2005 21:01:02 -0500, Mark Pollan <mark.pollan at mci.com> wrote:
> I think we may share the same gene pool Taka, but I'll give it a whirl
> nonetheless.  A clicking relay is good IMO but still may be the culprit.
> Did you check for current at the horn connectors?  If yes, horn gone bad
> perhaps?  Do you still have your OE horns to test that?  No current, check
> the relay.  Those suckers are just like the window switches and build up
> crud on the contact points.  Take the sucker apart and clean it.
> 
> I cannot state emphatically enough that I too took the short bus to
> electrical automotive wiring class so all bets are off.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Mark
> 
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:s-car-list-bounces at audifans.com] On Behalf Of Taka Mizutani
> Sent: Wednesday, March 09, 2005 8:41 PM
> To: s-car-list at audifans.com
> Subject: [s-cars] Horns stopped working?!?
> 
> I guess I'm pretty much a retard when it comes to automotive
> electrical wiring, so I need your help! :-)
> 
> I wired in a set of Hella supertone horns into my car, worked fine w/o
> any problems- hook up the stock wiring to the horns, run grounds to a
> screw into the body.
> 
> Today I use the horn, works fine for a second, then quits. Now the
> horn fuse is fine, the horn relay clicks when the horn pad is pushed,
> but no sound.
> 
> Any suggestions as to what happened? I looked at the connections,
> everything seems to be connected fine. I did not pass through a car
> wash or anything like that recently, so I really don't know what could
> have caused the horns to suddenly stop working, while it was in use.
> 
> Taka
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