Re: exorcision of the vdub horn demons

[Dondria Wallace <ddwallace@earthlink.net>]

Shawn C Meze wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 10 Dec 1997 18:04:43 -0800 Jason Brunberg <stoopid@idirect.com>
> writes:
> >Hey kids!  here's my little prob for the day.  Every-so-often when
> >turning the steering wheel with one hand (y'know...the cool way), I hear
> >a brief *click* from the steering wheel it seems, accompanied by the
> >horn startling everyone at the intersection or parking lot or whatever.
> 
> That's the horn relay warming up to sing a song fer ya. Sounds like you
> need to clean the brass on the back side of the steering wheel. (That
> means you gotta remove it from the column.) Clean the contact surface of
> the steering wheel and the little tab on the column and give a slight
> tweek so it stands up a little further and makes good solid contact with
> the steering wheel. That should stop all that intermittent crap your
> hearing. Its what I did on my GLi (Which, the horn didn't work at all
> until I did this. I got tired of people pulling out in front of me and
> NOT having a horn to complain with. Now I got me a working horn and
> nobody has given me reason to use it. Damn!)
> HTH!!
> 
>               Shawn Meze
> 86' Jetta GLi           82' Scirocco GTi
Try someting simpler

	My 85 Golf had the same problem.  It was a screw that backed out of the
assembly in the same place.  Once I tighted it, no further
problems...until it backed out again.

Lloyd
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