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Re: Horn - a mind of it's own ?

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Subject: Re: Horn - a mind of it's own ?
From: Ian Haydock <HAYDOCKI@lib.bham.ac.uk>
Date: Thu, 6 Jun 1996 09:26:42 GMT
> Hello all MGers,
> 
> Well, I drove into the car park (parking lot) in my '73 BGT at work this 
> morning and there was a guy who looked like he was going to pull into my 
> favorite space - so I started thinking the sort of thoughts that you tend to 
> think in this sort of situation....anyway, my B must have picked up my vibes 
> (faaaar out !) because it started sounding......pip,,,pip...peep..PEEEEEEEP ! 
> How embarrassing, it just kept on and on and on. It stopped eventually when I 
> opened the bonnet (hood) and disconnected them. Does anyone have any ideas as 
> to why this happened - could it be a short in the wiring loom, the switch ? 
>Any 
> advice would be appreciated. Oh, BTW the guy didn't hit me - I just had a 
>VERY 
> red face !
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Garry Hill
> 

  I had the same problem soon after I bought my '73 MGB. As with all 
things like this, it was dark and raining, in heavy traffic....! 
After disconnecting the horns to get home, the next morning I found 
that it was simply the horn switch in the middle of the steering 
wheel that had got bent over the years. I readjusted it and it has 
been fine since. Having looked at the mass of wiring around the front 
of my car, I suspect the loom must have been built to allow a number 
of different wiring configurations for the lights, horns, etc - 
plenty of space for things to go wrong!

                                  Good luck,

                                                    Ian



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