96 saturn horn won’t work

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Topic: 96 saturn horn won’t work

Posted By: dlk56
Subject: 96 saturn horn won’t work
Date Posted: August 17, 2005 at 10:50 AM

Hello, hope this is the proper forum to post this question. The horn quit working in this saturn, I replaced fuse and it failed on contact. I checked the voltage to the circuit and got 12.5 volts. I then pulled the plug at horn, there was some corrosion so I cleaned that up. put another fuse in then plugged the horn in..fuse blew again. I can find no relay for the horn in any of my books so I am a bit confused on how to test this circuit. The plug is a 3 wire 2blk, 1 red seems I should have power across the red and at least 1 blk figuring the other to be switch to ground does that sound right? Any help would be appreciated. dave

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Posted By: thepencil
Date Posted: August 17, 2005 at 2:56 PM

Any chance the HORN itself might be the cause for the fuse to be shorting out? Test and Check to see if the horn itself is working correctly.

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Posted By: dlk56
Date Posted: August 17, 2005 at 4:18 PM

That's what I am thinking, I'll have to make up some test leads to check it. Won't have access to car till tomorrow, but will post whatever I find. Thanks for your input.

Posted By: dlk56
Date Posted: August 21, 2005 at 8:08 AM

Took horn out, bench tested, horn bad...Replaced w/used ie salvaged..works fine. Total cost $2.50

Posted By: thepencil
Date Posted: August 22, 2005 at 9:23 AM

That's great. Glad you found the problem. There is no worse feeling than driving into a situation to find out that the horn is not working.

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