[T3] Horns

[Jim Adney]

On 24 May 2015 at 1:31, J. Jonik wrote:

> Just tested five horns from my collection of VW stuff.  I used some wire bits and the in-car battery and found that two worked great...the other three didn't even try.
> Why aren't the two-tab connector horns marked with which elec. tab is for hot, and which is ground (earth) ?  I tried both ways, hot-ground, ground-hot, and the non-responsive horns didn't work either way.   Did I fry something to kill the horns?
> The two horns that worked had only one elec. connection tab...the grounding being as bolted to the bumper....but another of those one-tab horns didn't work either. This refers to the Snail Shell shaped horns, not the round ones. The round horn on the car, from my parts collection, worked fine to get through inspection.

Polarity doesn't matter to horns, so you didn't fry anything. 
Sometimes a hard tap will jiggle something loose, or break thru a bit 
of corrosion to make them work again. The OG ones can be taken apart 
by removing the 8 screws around the perimeter. That may get you 
somewhere, or it may not be fixable.

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Jim Adney, jadney at vwtype3.org
Madison, Wisconsin, USA
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