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<x-charset iso-8859-1>If its a 65 or earlier the Front beam floats at 12V and you may be grounding it with a hard application of the brakes and grounding it... which blows the horn. Keith Keith Park Top Notch Restorations topnotch@nycap.rr.com 71 Squareback (with no empty nipples!) 65 Notchback (still suckin its gas!) 65 Squareback 75 Opel 87 Golf 88 Rx7 10th Anniversary ----- Original Message ----- From: James Wallace <wallacej@ohsu.edu> To: <type3@vwtype3.org> Sent: Saturday, December 22, 2001 1:11 AM Subject: [T3] Brakes setting horn off? > All: > > Ok, this was kind of weird. > > Stuck in Friday night traffic, and what happens? > > I first have to push the brakes pretty hard and the horn goes off for a split second, and I think..."wow, I didn't hit the horn on the wheel, that's strange" so....I keep driving....need to push the brakes hard again....horn goes off again....what?...this happens...traffic slows....have to hit the brakes more often...brakes start setting the horn off EVERY time the brake pedal goes down...I begin thinking.... 'OK, Friday night, close to Christmas, road rage....someone HELP ME!!!" > > Finally, pulled over at a store, and pulled the wire to the horn....I am serious...I need help....what is happening here?!? > > jim > > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > Search old messages on the Web! Visit http://www.vwtype3.org/list/ > > </x-charset>