NEED HELP: ATTN BART, RYAN, Steering wheel advice

[Aleks]

There, now that I have your attention, I need to know what you guys did with the horn wires when you installed your wheels....Bart, I know yours had the same 4 spoke plastic wheel, so this may be more relevant to you, there was the airbag connector plug at the steering column with 4 wires coming out, 2 to the airbag connector, and 2 for the horn (1 connecting the the outside face of the inner steering wheel, and another connecting just underneath it on a thinner piece of metal......) 1 has a regular spade connector on it, and the other has a 90 degree spade connector on it....here's my dilemna, I only have 1 connector on my 3 spoke wheel for the horn, what did you guys do???
thanks...

[Kor]

Re: NEED HELP: ATTN BART, RYAN, Steering wheel advice

I know how to disassemble a mk4 steering wheel, but I don't know what you mean.

[bart]

Re: NEED HELP: ATTN BART, RYAN, Steering wheel advice

umm mine was plug and play... there was the 90 degree yellow connector for the airbag, and thats it, i think another bigger 4 plug on the end, the horn i didnt touch, because i think that goes to the metal springs... there was no modding of any kind to make it work if thats what you're asking...

[Aleks]

Re: NEED HELP: ATTN BART, RYAN, Steering wheel advice

wow, that was fast....anyhow, I looked it up on the vortex, but have no good answers, other people have come across this, they are the grounding wires for the horn, I've done what a few other people have, and the horn doesn't work when pressing the wheel....I'll leave it for now, but there has to be some sort of answer.....its tough to work with cause you can take off the airbag, but can't test it unless you put it all back together again and reconnect the battery every time, very time consuming and labour intensive......anyhow, no ABS or airbag lights so thats fine, just this damn horn problem....

[bart]

Re: NEED HELP: ATTN BART, RYAN, Steering wheel advice

oh i think ryan had this, its a canbus thing i think.... sucks to be you double din guys, ahah. sry.

[R_Ethug]

Re: NEED HELP: ATTN BART, RYAN, Steering wheel advice

no mine was plug and play too.. one connector went to the air bag and another connector to the main harness.. done in 5 seconds

[Stonewall]

Re: NEED HELP: ATTN BART, RYAN, Steering wheel advice

I first read a couple line and though "why the hell would his rims have wires?" I think you are a can bus victom. I still have to take a closer look to see if I can figure out what needs to go where, if you have the bently manual for your car I might be able to figure it out.

[Aleks]

Re: NEED HELP: ATTN BART, RYAN, Steering wheel advice

No bentley manual, I'll take any advice I can get.....anyhow, the 2 wires appear to connect anyhow when they are plugged into the 4 spoker....unless I try touching the two and having the horn go off, I'm 100% they are not associated with the Airbags

[R_Ethug]

Re: NEED HELP: ATTN BART, RYAN, Steering wheel advice

take some photos alex..cuz i thought i was gonna have issues with mine and it seriously was straight up plug and play.. although on my car the horn is actually controlled by the can-bus not grounding wires so with my r32 it doesn't work lol

[Stonewall]

Re: NEED HELP: ATTN BART, RYAN, Steering wheel advice

take some photos alex..cuz i thought i was gonna have issues with mine and it seriously was straight up plug and play.. although on my car the horn is actually controlled by the can-bus not grounding wires so with my r32 it doesn't work lol

And that is wierd as the R32 is so new it should be can too