Date:         Wed, 25 Jul 2007 06:46:12 -0700
Reply-To:     Michael Elliott <camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         Michael Elliott <camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: silly little question about the basics...removing plate over
              the horn on ...
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JordanVw@AOL.COM typed:
> In a message dated 7/25/07 12:28:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
> mariposaducharme@HOTMAIL.COM writes:
>
>
>> I am still getting to know my van. I've had it for a few weeks only. I want
>> to fix the horn. (When I plug it in, it just goooooooess...so I figured that
>> the "trigger" is stuck, on the steering wheel.
>>
>
> hello little miss sunshine  :<P   99.9% positive your problem is not in the
> horn pad on the steering wheel.   its probably a bad ground on the brown wire
> that runs down your steering column.

At least it's not what happened to me a couple weeks ago while camping.
When I turned the key to start the van, the tip of another key on the
keyring went into the gap between the steering wheel and the column,
neatly bridging the gap between the horn pad and the chassis.
Hoooonnnnnnnnkkk! Oops -- Sorry!

I think it was just the previous evening that I had been griping about
some nitwit who had repeatedly blipped their SUV's horn by locking and
unlocking its doors while fetching things (Mr Squirrel's Campground
Peeve #2).

--
Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott
71 Type 2: the Wonderbus
84 Westfalia: Mellow Yellow ("The Electrical Banana")
74 Utility Trailer. Ladybug Trailer, Inc., San Juan Capistrano
KG6RCR