First my rear wiper won't work....now my horn doesn't work.
It is on the same fuse as the front wipers and those work fine, so not the fuse.
What else could be wrong? Is this this a common 850 issue? Is this something I can fix myself? I'm wary of doing anything with the steering wheel because of the air bag.
I don't know if this applies to your situation, but my '96 850 started having all sorts of strange electrical problems when the ignition switch went bad.
Try wiggling the keys around in the ignition to see if that modulates the problem or not.
John
Interesting. Since posting the message I've driven around town doing errands and the horn sometimes works, sometimes doesn't.
I'll try jiggling the key around next time it isn't working to see if that makes it work.
Thanks... Atif
The wires leading to the horn aren't protected all that well... but they are tucked away behind the bumper, a broken connection here would cause the horn to not work at all... And most likely one tone would still work (Volvo's have two horns, one is a higher pitched, the other is a lower pitched horn).
My horn seems to work fine now. Yesterday when it stopped working it was raining. It has been raining here on and off for the last few days. Today was the first non-rain day and the horn seems to be working fine now. I see the next time it rains if the horn stops working.
If it does I guess that means there is an exposed wire or something that is getting shorted out in the rain?
Dampness causes all sorts of weird problems when cars get older (and the rubber seals around electrical connections start to age)... I wouldn't say rain water was shorting out the horn (a true short would cause a fuse to blow)... I would say the water caused and open connection (breaking the path for current to flow)... Could have even been cooler/warmer temperatures, or vibrations - we had a speaker in our old 1991 Golf that would randomly start and stop working (for days at a time, or cutting in and out at random)... And a headlight that for some reason when out... I got mad at the car, kicked the bumper and the light came back on :-).
Crawl under the car and look at the connections on the horn if you want... But those are all permanent style connections - the first connections that tend to go are on contacts (in the ignition, or the horn buttons/button)
Thanks for the input...I think your dampness theory makes more sense.
Um..I'm originally a Boston drive. I live in Upstate New York now so it took a LONG time to learn NOT to honk as much as I did in Boston.
So to answer your questions...I don't use it as much as I use to. I don't know when it stopped working. But as soon as I noticed it
*REALLY* bothered me because I USE to rely on it quite a bit.MotorsForum website is not affiliated with any of the manufacturers or service providers discussed here. All logos and trade names are the property of their respective owners.