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Re: [T3] Brake honk


<x-charset iso-8859-1>I had this problem before after I nearly  crashed my car head on 
into a pickup truck, it was his fault but I was going really fast,
the resulting Rockford Files spin we both did, left me with my horn
honking . After we exchanged comments and fingers, I parked my 
now intermitantly honking car. 

I did not manually honk the car in this incident and the resulting on
 off honking, especially during braking, really angered the other 
driver and he continued the fingering action until I was no longer at
 a hearing distance.

Well anyhow I disconnected the ground or the honking side since 
the positive or + side is always on , I tested which side was which 
by disconnecting one side and using a piece of wire on the horn
connection and touched the bumper (ground) if it honked then it 
was the right one; tugging the wire, I followed it to my steering 
column where the rubber damper turns, on its way out it was 
being pinched by the body and the suspension frame or rail,
it even had a bald spot , it must have been like this for years 
but the incident finally brought it to light. i rerouted the wire 
and it never came back.

Follow your wire from the bottom of the column to the horn,
you should find something. Make sure your horn ring is not 
doing something odd , like shorting out under the weight 
of breaking?

LEON MARTINEZ



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