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benm Grand Master

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I had a rattle in my stock R33 S1 steering wheel for about 6mths, then 1 day as I turned into a driveway it started going off. From then on, everytime I turned my steering wheel to half-lock it would trigger the horn.

If you have an airbag wheel you will need to go to an Import specialist to remove the airbag and fix the contacts.

rs73 Grand Master

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The rattle is the white plastic horn button inside the steering wheel shattering into pieces due to age. Open up your wheel and its centre pieces, try go get all the pieces back and glue them with supa glue and some magic tape to hold them together, that will do the job.

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thanks guys, there is a rattling in there so i should check it out, but i aint gonna do it myself cos it has an airbag, dont want that shit goin off prematurely.

i have an alarm, its a mongoose one so that could be it, but ill take into an airbag specialist.

anyone know of any good ones in melbourne??

funkymonkey Grand Master

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my horn went off in the middle of the night n woke my whole court up, got in the car and pressed the horn and it stopped... the next morning I took off my steering wheel to find a bug inside pretty much dead (still twitching a little shortin the contacts) Must've squished it when I pressed the horn... farken thing....

Sumo Mentor

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rs73, its a bit more complicated then that, you have capacitors that store charge (if you have an acco, you need a charge to set the bags off - so if you battery leads are chopped off the bag has still gotta deploy), Some cars you have to unplug it at the module, some let you unplug it at the wheel.... but its up to you

Sumo

P.S. how are you gunna test the horn if you dont have the battery hooked up?

rs73 Grand Master

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P.S. how are you gunna test the horn if you dont have the battery hooked up?

Easy! Before you test the horn, reconnect the battery.

I was talking about disconnecting the battery only whille opening the steering wheel just to check if the plastic horn button is shattered inside. That is if the airbag system doesn't have that capacitor you mentioned about. Since you know about it so now it's a different case. As I said in my post ask around to ppl who knows as I never had airbags before so dunno how they work. I take no responsibility if the owner of the car decide to open the steering wheel without knowledge.

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