Audi 86 CGT Horn

[quk@sievers.com (Phil Payne)]

In message <970325163812_1084402464@emout04.mail.aol.com> MSV96@aol.com writes:

> <<After owning this car for 10+ years....why is it I just figured out you can
> activate the horn by pressing in on the steering wheel itself....not just the
> Audi rings in the middle???  Is this by design???  Listmembers?>>
> 
> Huh??? There ain't much there to press on except the center "horn pad"
> portion of the wheel. Yes, pressing anywhere on the horn pad will sound the
> horn (like most cars I have ever seen). The wheel itself??? No. Not unless
> the steering column itself is so loose that you make contact with the horn
> switch by pressing the whole wheel back. I have now lived behind 6 of these
> four-ring steering wheels over the past 10 years (including that of an '86
> CGT...though they are all the same in pre-airbag years) and can't imagine
> that pressing just the wheel itself would ever sound the horn.

Does on my Coupe GT, but not on the ur-quattro.  Lean back, lock the arms at 
quarter to three, and BEEP!

--
 Phil Payne
 phil@sievers.com
 Committee Member, UK Audi [ur-]quattro Owners Club