Aloof approximately anyone can install an aftermarket horn Press-stud.
Vehicle horns serve a correct decisive safety utility. They alert other drivers of your target to cross traffic or avoid a fatal collision. They can be used to bell absent for carefulness. Unfortunately, advanced Accoutrement manufacturer horns can fail thanks to of a wiring botheration or a dangerous contact at the horn Press-stud inside the steering shove. Aftermarket horn buttons can bypass the defective connexion and restore the horn to Correct method. You can install an aftermarket horn Press-stud with a infrequent picnic tools and in a hardly any steps.
Instructions
1. Deposit the vehicle in grassland or impartial, depending upon the transmission type. Establish the emergency brake. Stand the hood and disconnect the rejection battery cable with a socket. Dehiscent the horn Press-stud apparatus and position the horn Press-stud on the dashboard, where you can distance it easily. Evaluation the back of the dashboard to beget confident no obstructions Testament be encountered provided you drill down the panel.
2. Drill a gap barn door Sufficiently To admit the horn Press-stud wire (or wires) to fit down the panel with a drill Engine and bit. Locate the horn Press-stud in levy, with the wire complete the gap, and site the two microscopic bracket holes with a limited drill bit. Drill the two bracket holes with the drill and a small drill bit. Screw the kit screws into the bracket with a screwdriver or use your own self-tapping screws if they did not come with the kit.
3. Cut a length of 14- or 16-gauge wire that will reach from the horn button to the hot switch wire on the primary horn. Find a rubber grommet in the dashboard that leads from the dash panel, through the firewall and to the engine compartment. Leave enough slack to tuck in the excess wire.
4. Route the wire along an existing wire loom in the engine compartment. To recognize the hot switch wire, find the horn or dual horns and look for the wire that connects to the spade terminal on the primary horn body, usually the driver's side horn. This wire should lead from the horn to the main wiring loom, not to the other horn.
5. Disconnect the negative battery cable with a socket. Follow the OEM horn hot wire until it disappears into the main loom. Cut the wire at this location. Place a snap connector over the hot wire and the custom wire. Crimp the snap connector together with wire strippers. Secure the wire to the existing main loom with electrical tape. If the horn button has two wires -- a hot and ground wire -- cut another length of wire that will reach from the horn button, through the firewall and to the horn body.
6. Connect the ground wire to the existing ground coming out of the horn. Join the two with the wire strippers and a snap connector. Reconnect the negative battery cable with a socket. Test the horn button. Crimp the wire eyelet with wire strippers.
7. Screw the wire eyelet underneath the horn mounting screw with a screwdriver. Tape the ground wire neatly onto the existing main loom with electrical tape. If the horn has no second ground wire terminal, it means that the horn itself serves as a ground. In this case, remove one of the horn mounting screws. Strip the end of the custom ground wire and place a wire eyelet on it.
