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Can someone suggest what is happening. On a very cold night in winter the steering wheel horn just starting honking out aloud. This happened at 2 am inthe morning. I disconnected the wire from the horn and it shut up. But when I reconnect it , the damn thing takes off again.

The car is an EB Falcon Wagon.

smally351

check the horn pad on the steering wheel, have had a lot of trouble with them.

RAVEN

yeah you have broken the seal and it cant be fixed unless you get a new wheel

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MADAZ

You dont need a new wheel, just get a new horn pad from your Ford dealer and you will be right for another 10 years or so.

Aussiblue

The foam rots between the pad and the contacts; you can fix it yourself cheaply with some self adhesive foam.

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XWish Ute

Also, when the foam stuffs out, the wiring can contact the metal backing plate as well. I used some heatshrink to stop this, as well as the self adhesive foam (door seal foam from Bunnings!) to fix it. Been ok for 18 months now!

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Do I have to remove the steering wheel to fix this problem or can I remove the pad ...how is this done?...never done this before.

Aussiblue

Just carefully lever the horn pad off with a long thin screwdriver. Be careful as it's very easy to break one or both of the two retaining clips. These clips are sort of hook shaped with the little plastic hooks pointing inward towards the wheel centre so you have to lever them sideways away from the centre at the hook shank to remove the pads.

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thanks Aussie Blue ...I will give this a try and see how I go.

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Fantastic....thanks guys. I used bubble wrap instead of the foam and it is working well.