No Horn!

[Lucy in the Sky]

i got my car about a month ago and it has an aftermarket SAAS wheel

the middle part of the horn pulls out and it has two mettal prongs sticking out from the removable part

and then a wire on the inside of the hole in the wheel where the horn is ... with a spade like connector... but there is only one

so yeh. i dont have a horn and i hate it.

does anyone know how to fix this?

or should i just buy a new wheel?

[bubba]

Checked the fuse? Did the horn work when you got it? I don't know whether the skyline horns are negatively switched or not.. I think if they are negatively switched there will only be one wire.. ugh someone else may be able to help you

[RRob]

1 is earthed. Other is trigger(when you push the button).

[mitchy_]

i know my horn only has 1 wire going to it, pretty sure the steering wheel only has the one wire coming off it to.

try swapping the wire to the other terminal and see if that works.. if not, try the fuse as suggested before, or even try another horn!

or... get your bf to do it for you

[Boss-zilla]

I had the same problem with my r32, check all of the above as well as look at the horn itself (usually in front of the radiator) The wire may have fallen off there or check the front of the horn is not touching anything, this will stop it working too. If none of the above work let me know and ill see what i can do. Also you can see if the button is stuffed by touching the wire on a ground (the bolt that holds the wheel on should do) if the horn sound this way and not with the button you can just get a new button.

Edited April 12, 2007 by rtk

[Topaz]

My Momo wheel didn't hook up to the HKB boss kit I put on so I just wrapped the ground wire around the centre piece and made sure it firmly made contact with the inside of the boss kit. Vua'la, ground

[MacGuyver]

^^ I have a HKB boss kit/Momo wheel combo and used a similar work around as well. The boss kit was meant to come with something called a horn ring which fixes this I think but it was missing when I brought it.

[Stinky Rooster]

manually cranked Klaxon FTW!

[Lucy in the Sky]

thanks for all the replies!!

yeah its aHKB boss kit.. i think i might want to get a nicer wheel anyway.. the saas one is a bit supercheap auto tacky..

i will try your suggestions!

[bubba]

manually cranked Klaxon FTW!

ROFL! you could try one of those old police sirens that are wind powered.. the faster you go the louder it gets! would work well for those idiots that hog the right lane.

[Timmeh]

Check the fuse first. Change it out (even if it looks ok). If that doesnt solve it then :

The one wire on your boss kit is a positive wire that links up to your horn. There is no negative wire, because your car is negative earthed, and so doesnt need it. To be honest it doesnt sound like an issue at the steering wheel end. Just get a test pen and check that the single wire has power going to it.

If the single wire has power going to it, then you'd check the horn side of things. Pull the wire off the horn and check it isnt corroded etc. Then get a test pen / multimeter and bridge between that wire and the body of the car. Get someone to press the horn inside the car and check that the wire is getting 12 volts. If it isnt theres a wiring / fuse issue. If it is, but you connect the wire back up to the horn and no go, then the horn is stuffed.

Hope that helps a bit.