twin tone horn failure

[matt643]

Chaps & Ladies, does anybody know where the low pitch horn is situated? I have heard that it is mounted in one of the wheel arches.

My car sounds like the Noddy mobile at the moment as only the high tone horn next to the battery is working.

 

[Guest]

I had the same when mine was only a week or so old.

I believe it is in one of the arches but fortunately mine was done under warranty.
Apparently a lose wire, but obviously not an uncommon occurence!

Not much help really. Sorry.

 

[Mark_Bennett]

Take a look in the 996 forum - this very topic has been discussed there in the last few days.

--> 996 Forum <--

 

[MikeO]

...and you would not believe what a pig of job it sounds

 

[matt643]

Thanks for that Mark, the lower tone horn of the two horns is vulnerable to water ingres I have found out.

After a couple of weeks of people thinking that they were being beeped by a 1989 Honda Civic I went for a blat in the country and depressed the horn several times for an extended period and hey presto! The inner workings freed themselves and my car is fixed.

Its quite a common fault by all accounts.

 

[Tool Pants]

The horns for the steering wheel are next to one of the radiators. If you look under your bumper cover with a flash light there is an openting in the bottom of the cover and you can see one of the two horns. You cannot see the second horn because it is behind the one you can see.

The horn you can see is the high pitch. This is the one that usually stops working. My theory is that water get into it, as the other horn is better protected by the bumper cover. The shop manual says you can remove the high pitch horn through the opening - but it is hard to do it that way. We remove the bumper cover. You have to remove the bumper cover to get to the low pitch horn.

 

[matt643]

looks like quite a big job to remove the bumper and the puddle of coolant (?) doesn't look very nice!

Interesting pic though.

Thanks for your help everybody!

 

[kitchens]

ORIGINAL: matt643

looks like quite a big job to remove the bumper and the puddle of coolant (?) doesn't look very nice!

Interesting pic though.

Thanks for your help everybody!

Just shout OH! you, out the xxxxxx way


Brian

 

[Bill Stewart]

if you can get into the horn it may clear with a blast of compressed air fired into the normal compressor connection. I used to do Stage Rallying and as you can imagine everything gets covered in gung, this was a common problem and how we used to cure it. As I say this assumes you can take the pipe off and connect an air hose. By the way be careful when you do it as its bloody loud when your ears are a few inches away - ear defenders are a good idea to avoid a bump on the head as you go **fcuking hell**.....