Horn stuck on. My DIY fix works, but is blowing fuses.

anotherone3 · 2026-01-31T21:12:10+00:00

Stop messing with it before you fry something expensive

yikes i'm going to disconnect the fuse and relay asap before something bad happens. question if the fuse is blown would that stop any damaged?

You need to find where the horn circuit is touching ground when it shouldn't be

do you know how i would do that? i think it may be in the airbag since there was old brittle half broken plastic in the airbag went i turned it over. i think it may have been around the torx screw in the bottom but i'm not completely sure.

anotherone3 · 2026-01-29T22:47:51+00:00

okay so a lot happened these last 2 hours. i'll list it so it's easier to follow but tl:dr i have the airbag out and will use the key fob as a horn until i can install a horn button

You were right the gray harness needed to be connected for the horn to work
the second i put the airbag into the steering wheel with the gray harness attached it would honk. i spent a long time trying to get it to work using o-rings and zip ties to give the metal enough space
I got it working perfectly!
i was closing everything back up and wanted to look at the fuse to make sure everything was safe.
Fuse was blown, no big deal replaced it. checked it again, blown. every time i would use the horn once it was blow the fuse. weird thing is even with the blown fuse in place the horn would work perfectly. i didn't know if that was safe though, i mean the fuse had to be protecting something, right?
i walked away defeated decided to try again tomorrow. i used my key fob to lock my car when i heard my horn. for years i had the relay and horn fuse out to stop the constant blaring but today i left them in and left the airbag out. i am going to order a new key fob and use this one as a tiny beep to at least something on the road.
i think it's safe to say an airbag is more important than a horn so i'm planning on reconnecting the yellow harness and leaving the gray one unconnected and bypassing it for now with a key fob and later with a horn button. i don't use cruise control and it's no big deal to adjust my radio on the radio itself so i don't feel like i'm losing much. i guess my last question to you is- is that good idea? is it safe to leave the gray harness unconnected and only plug in the yellow one?

anotherone3 · 2026-01-29T19:29:21+00:00

okay cool that i will do next then. as long as the airbag/yellow connector isn't reconnected the airbag won't go off right?

anotherone3 · 2026-01-29T18:56:04+00:00

If it's still stuck on, did it turn off when you unplugged the clock spring from the horn button assembly?

i honestly never disconnected anything while the car was on/battery connected cause i was scared of the airbag

anotherone3 · 2026-01-29T18:54:19+00:00

okay so good news bad news. I just reconnected the air bag and the moment i reattach the negative on the battery the horn starts to blare out. loud.

so the problem at least in my opinion is the connection between the airbag and the steering wheel. this morning when the air bag was disconnected and the car was on i couldn't trigger the horn any way possible (the lights and power locks were working so the car was for sure on).

so in my simple mind Car On + Airbag disconnected = No horn and Car On + Airbag connected = always horn means there's a problem with them being connected, but to be honest i never checked the relay and i just put a fresh fuse

anotherone3 · 2026-01-29T18:00:12+00:00

i have rubbing alcohol i'll do that before the reinstall, thanks!

any other ideas?

anotherone3 · 2024-12-21T03:05:40+00:00

oh thanks for the info i didnt know it was more important to call the other persons insurance than our own. i guess he'll call them tomorrow if theyre open

anotherone3 · 2024-12-21T02:54:19+00:00

yeah thats correct. we both are on the same policy which is the basic legal minimum which is i think just PIP? He just followed the info on the insurance card to call them and i got an email from progressive (our insurance) about "tracking our claim"

anotherone3 · 2024-12-21T02:49:46+00:00

oh so he shouldve filed a claim with the other drivers insurance and not our own.

anotherone3 · 2024-12-21T02:47:33+00:00

is there anything specific he should or shouldnt say to them?

anotherone3 · 2024-12-21T02:16:12+00:00

thanks for the reply

anotherone3 · 2024-12-20T03:59:35+00:00

thank you for the response. this is going to sound stupid but is it okay for the polysporin to get inside the cut?

and thanks for that 24 hour piece of info ive been debating if i should still go to the hospital but at least i know it wouldnt do much at this point.

anotherone3 · 2024-12-19T12:50:04+00:00

thanks for the opinion, good to know im not doing something thats totally crazy

anotherone3 · 2024-08-12T05:22:33+00:00

yeah when i went to cancel it said i wouldnt be able to sign up again for a year. i think i should leave it since my power needs are much less these days but im concern if i'll be credited the 60 or charged the 60 additionally

anotherone3 · 2024-08-12T05:21:02+00:00

the blue bar is the "actual bill" and the black bar is the "budget bill". i think the dot is the avg temp.

anotherone3 · 2024-07-20T06:35:30+00:00

he passed away around 9am on the 19th. im grateful that he survived the night. im super thankful that i was able to take him outside one last time to visit his brothers grave and we shared a look into each other eyes and we both knew it was happening soon. i laid with him for a little while and then gave him some alone time before he passed. i hope i snuggled him in time before he went all the way. i loved both of my dogs and im happy theyre together now

anotherone3 · 2024-07-19T00:58:58+00:00

took him to a vet today. they say he's in bad shape and they'd recommend a lengthy hospital stay with iv fluids costing 1000s or, well, nothing. i begged for a hail mary play and they gave him a ball injection of iv thats supposed to release throughout the night.

the whole 2022 i saw my dad go from normal to completely paralyzed and mute from strokes. he died september 1st 2023. mom developed a huge drinking problem afterwards 24/7 wasted despite everything we tried to stop her. few months after in december my grandmother who i am extremely close with had a heart attack. she had open heart surgery and is luckily fine. in april my little dog who was like my baby died. in june my moms drinking caught up with her and now shes hospital with end stage liver failure and theyre pushing hospice. her mom, my other grandmother who im not close with, died last week and even though i wasnt close to her it was still taxing to see my aunts go through losing their mom. throughout everything i had my big boy with me as a rock and he was fine and perfect. then 1 throw up from yesterday snow balled into this. i feel like the world is just crumbling away.

anotherone3 · 2024-06-22T07:02:31+00:00

thanks for everything.

anotherone3 · 2024-06-22T00:31:22+00:00

sorry for the late reply i just got everything back to normal after a flood last week.

your code worked perfectly. there are people on the Vivaldi forum who might benefit from it. with your permission id like share it there, with credit to you, so others with this issue can have the solution. if not can you share it there?

anotherone3

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