Horny Citroen C8 problem .... HELP!

[Fab Foodie]

The other week returning from France I managed to explode a bottle of Apricot juice all over the steering wheel, airbag and steering column of my Citroen C8 ... as well as my legs seat and carpet.

I immediately managed to clean it up pretty well and continued homewards, sticky but unnafected … until …

Until I joined the regular M25 southerly crawl when all of a sudden my horn started blaring at random. It wouldn’t work when I poress the button, just came on and off as long as it pleased at Random. After a hour or so it stopped.

When I park the car and lock it, it does the occasional short parp and then is silent.

Last weekend I disambled the stearing wheel column stuff, removed the eirbag and cleaned inside the steering wheel, cleaned with contact cleaner the horn contacts and any othger signs of juice attack I could see. Still no joy. Am assuming there must be some kind of slip ring that transfers signals from the rotating steering wheel to the static wiring loom. I don’t seem to be able to fathom this.

Unfortunately no Horn means no MOT, it’s due in November or so. I’d like to have a good chance to fix it before having a mechanic suck air through his teeth and tell me it’s gonna cost.

OK, it’s old, done 150k miles and is worth a grand but it runs sweet as a nut. I’d be loathed to have to replace it but don’t want to spend loads on something that might be unfixable in reasonable terms.

Any thoughts?

 

[biggs682]

normally there is a brass ring either on bag of the steering wheel or they can sometimes float on the column

 

[Globalti]

I'm getting déja vu - just seen this thread elsewhere.

You have checked the fuse for the horn?

 

[marknotgeorge]

I think the part you're looking for is called a clockspring. A scrapyard might be able to help you.

 

[Markymark]

I've already answered this with everything you need to know in the other thread.

 

[KneesUp]

I had a Fiat wit a faulty horn once. The fusebox was under one of the dash cubby holes, and evidently previous owner had spilled coke in to it - I believe the relay was gummed up with sticky stuff (I paid someone else to fix it) Dunno if this helps.

 

[Gravity Aided]

Check your fuse first. If the fuse isn't blown, somebody needs to get in there and remove that sticky and non-conductive apricot juice from the situation. Unless you've watched all episodes of Danger-UXB, you shouldn't attempt this yourself. If you have, you won't even consider doing it yourself.

 

[Accy cyclist]

Check your fuse first. If the fuse isn't blown, somebody needs to get in there and remove that sticky and non-conductive apricot juice from the situation. Unless you've watched all episodes of Danger-UXB, you shouldn't attempt this yourself. If you have, you won't even consider doing it yourself.

How do you know about Danger UXB? Did they show it in America?

 

[screenman]

It is a problem that sometimes happens on a few French cars using the sane systems, a separate switch is the way we always went, unless you want to spend about £150+ if I remember correctly.

 

[Gravity Aided]

How do you know about Danger UXB? Did they show it in America?

Yes. Quite a good show. My father never missed an episode. They showed it over here in 1981, but all 13 episodes, weekly, on a show called Masterpiece Theater on PBS. I saw it at University.

 

[Piemaster]

 

[Levo-Lon]

French leccy...i used to have some right laughs sorting my pug 1.9gti..
remove every conector and relay,earths etc and clean and use leccy grease or wd40 on all the terminals.

buy a multi meter..best thing ever for such tasks..

above all eles Enjoy this new hobby....

 

[ufkacbln]

Unfortunately no Horn means no MOT, it’s due in November or so. I’d like to have a good chance to fix it before having a mechanic suck air through his teeth and tell me it’s gonna cost.



Any thoughts?

Hide in the boot with one of these:

Then squeeze when they test the horn

Problem sorted