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'Low' horn died again! 850

posted by  someone claiming to be 850T on  Wed Feb 5 17:39 CST 2003 [RELATED]


I have a 95 850. When I bought the car it had a defective horn, and the ind. dealer later fixed it by repairing the grounding wire in the steering wheel, and replacing the "low" horn (with a junkyard part from another 850). Last week, in traffic I had to honk, and suddenly my low horn kicked out and I just heard the high horn.

Is there some way that my car is overpowering the horn and making it burn out faster, or could I just be the statistical fluke and have two of them burn out on me?







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    'Low' horn died again! 850

    posted by  okieman1200 on  Tue Feb 18 16:31 CST 2003
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    This happened to me yesterday, after finally getting a horn noise, it was only the high horn, checked the electrical turned out to be a bad connection. Tightened the wires and that seemed to work. although i can only sound the horn by hitting the top of my wheel, the contacts in the bottom corners must be defective. anyways, i have a horn, it dosent sound that bad....
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    Matt in MA, '93 850 GLT








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    'Low' horn died again! 850

    posted by  Gerald C on  Thu Feb 6 04:38 CST 2003
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    I don't know how the car would "burn-out" a horn. Also, the steering wheel switch problem should be independent of a problem with the horn itself. I would be inclined to chalk it up to coincidence. Otherwise, it could be connector corrosion, bad relay, etc.

    aside: The 850 horns are so wimpy, I added a couple of air trumpets. Now I can't even hear the Volvo horns. :)~

    Gerald C








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      ashamed of horn..... 850

      posted by  okieman1200 on  Fri Feb 7 12:43 CST 2003
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      yeah, id have to agree volvo's horns on their early 90s cars are wimpy,idk what they sound like now on the current S40/60/80s, but my friends '89 780 Turbo Bertone is embarrassing, like a clown car....
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      Matt in MA, '93 850 GLT







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