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On Sat, 9 Jul 2005 23:11:28 -0400, Oppie > wrote:
> That does not quite make sense. > The horn is grounded to chassis and a single terminal goes to the horn > relay > that switches the horn to battery. One side of the horn relay coil goes > to > battery and the other side to the horn button which is switched to > ground by > the horn button. The situation is muddled somewhat by any alarm that will > chirp the horn. That aside, the usual troubleshooting method begins with > removing the horn relay and seeing if that silences the horn... > > So you have the mechanics of changing the horn down but I suspect that > you > did not really fix the root problem. Like the terminator, it will be > back. > > saturn s-series is economy class car, there is only one horn on the vehicle. if the horn goes off and stay on one night there are two possible causes 1 - the horn pads shrinks on cold ambient temp and ground path to the horn. 2 - the horn itself shorted out which is very possible. the horn relay from saturn hardly cause trouble. only if replace with after market relay and then trouble will present when the relay coil get weak or the switching in the relay could stuck on when use. -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail/ |
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