Serious Horn Business (with pics)

[FartCanMan]

This is a typical aftermarket steering wheel horn problem. I've been searching like crazy and found some solutions, but I don't quite understand them (like the whole soldering wires to the copper piece and s**t like that).

Anyway, I already have a switch (button) for my horn and it works. I just don't like it and I want the horn button to be on the steering wheel.

Here's the switch...



2 wires come from it. One ground. One wire that goes into a harness (guessing to the horn)

Here's where the one wire goes (into a harness)




I know it's blurry. Sorry. But its just a clip with a bunch of wires that come from a harness. I'm guessing it's another route to the horn instead of going through the SRS (?)

Here is the SRS Harness (the harness that connected to the swivel that went into the oem wheel)



Here's the white wire that comes out of the hub (if I recall I think this comes with the hub and it's soldered to the back of the hub from the inside)



And finally: This is the back of the aftermarket horn button. Two slots; one for ground and one for the harness (im guessing)




Here's my question:

Since I already have a wire going into a harness that makes the horn go beep; is there a way I can just run that wire through the hub (or something like that) and connect to the back of the horn button?

Problems: Back of hub has no openings AND steering wheels turn...therefore that's why they have that oem swivel thingy (SRS)

Hope this gets answered. Maybe when it does it will help a ton of people out. I don't have a solder gun so if I have to do the copper thing I'm kinda screwed.

Please Help!!!!

 

[NFR_AP2]

well i have a personal wheel, and this is how i wired my horn button. if you take off the wheel and the hub, you should see a metal piece sticking out, it contacts the back of the wheel, metal to metal, and thats how it always maintains the connection. try to take off your hub and snap a pic...

 

[kaepos]

honestly, you could just run the power line to a power source (12v). Since the horn is a temporary contact switch, it should work... assuming the horn runs on 12v and not 5v.

edit: nevermind... that would require you to hack the actual horn wiring too

 

[FartCanMan]

anybody reading this thread with a horn problem it's simple:

The horn wire is in the SRS Harness which you disconnected to take the stock wheel off.

Run a wire from the harness (you have to figure out which slot is the horn, google it) to the back of your hub.

There are a few screws around the plastic steering column housing. Tie the wire around one of the screws and screw it in and leave a little extra wire.

Bend that extra wire so it can just barely touch the copper on the back of your hub adapter (or else your horn will keep honking).

Your hub should have its own wire soldered inside it. That wire now has power from the wire you just made contact with the back of the hub.

Plug that hub wire into the horn button.

The other prong on the horn button is for a ground wire. Take any wire and attach it to that prong and run it to any ground (preferrably metal on the inside of the hub, not the copper).

Make sure when you turn the wheel your power wire doesn't move on the back of the hub and make your horn honk unintentionally. This happened to me so I just adjusted the wire and it has been working perfect ever since!

Beep beep.

 

[Mr Hollywood]

damn somone needs to resize those FFF'n pixxx !!

 

[FartCanMan]

if you wait a few seconds the site automatically resizes them