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hanging-on in quiet desperation ...
- Location
- Kirton, Devon.
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 press 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 dissembled the steering wheel column stuff, removed the airbag and cleaned inside the steering wheel, cleaned with contact cleaner the horn contacts and any other 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?
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 press 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 dissembled the steering wheel column stuff, removed the airbag and cleaned inside the steering wheel, cleaned with contact cleaner the horn contacts and any other 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?
