cornflakes 9 Posted July 30, 2015 Share Posted July 30, 2015 I'm not sure if it's the actual car horn itself or maybe the wires, or the spot where I push down on the steering wheel, but my horn doesn't work anymore. Does anyone know the step by step procedure on how to replace it? I heard it's not hard at all. I just need to know also what kind of horn can I use? Are there specific specs (voltage rating etc) that I need to know of for my spark? Mine is a 2010 GM Daewoo Matiz Creative (overseas). Thanks. Link to post Share on other sites
Ray Dockrey 97 Posted July 30, 2015 Share Posted July 30, 2015 Does it have remote lock? If so does the horn honk when you lock it? Link to post Share on other sites
Skids 108 Posted August 4, 2015 Share Posted August 4, 2015 Id start with the fuse, possibly and probably just blown. to replace the actual horn not hard, but a pain in the ass you have to take the front bumper off to get to it.. basically any horn at any auto parts store should work, just a 12 volt system. Link to post Share on other sites
cornflakes 9 Posted September 3, 2015 Author Share Posted September 3, 2015 fuse is good......it might be an electrical issue (wiring) ...but i guess still possible the horn could be dead but seems unusual for that to be the case considering the car is not old, horn barely used, and I've been having some kind of electrical issue pertaining to the brake lights. Link to post Share on other sites
Skids 108 Posted September 3, 2015 Share Posted September 3, 2015 saw your other post abput the push button start and everything.. might all be related. Kia had a huge recall not to long about about the break light switch and push button start. possible same parts as what they put in yours (not to many push button start factories) worth a shot to look into Retired old Gearhead 1 Link to post Share on other sites
cornflakes 9 Posted September 4, 2015 Author Share Posted September 4, 2015 thanks skids. Yes, it might be related but I think only at the electrical/circuitry level. The brake light switch is actually no problem at all. The mechanic told me it was perfectly fine. My start push button is an aftermarket brand the previous owner had installed in the car since sparks don't come with it OEM (at least my model year 2010...not sure if the new ones now come with push start). I'm going to take it into an actual service center hopefully this weekend and they can tell me exactly what the problem was with the horn. Thinking outside the box here, but is it possible that if something is iffy with the car's electrical system, that it could prematurely burn out light bulbs and maybe other electrical parts faster than normal? Just curious because I remember when I got the car last year, I had to replace the fog lights and the tail lights because they were burnt out. I thought to myself, for a car that had only 28k km on it, the lights burnt out awfully fast. About only 10 months or so ago, I purchased rear bumper LED brake lights in replacement for the reflectors. I just noticed that one of the LEDs already went out....just one tiny dot is out but the rest are still working fine....just looks funny when looking at it cuz you can see that one dark spot where the LED is dead. That's pretty quick for it to already die, especially for an LED? So I just wonder if maybe something in the system is electrically unstable and is causing spikes or surges or something periodically that might burn out electrical parts like bulbs or wiring? Or is that something I shouldn't worry about because that's what a fuse is for? All the fuses are fine and none were blown. Link to post Share on other sites
WaltK 305 Posted September 4, 2015 Share Posted September 4, 2015 If your'e fuses are all good, and the brake light switch has continuity, I would still look at all the ground wires. Loose, or broken ground wires can cause a host of problems, particularly intermittent ones, that are a bitch to find.If you are going to bring the car to a pro, they should find this pretty quick, just be sure you go to a reputable shop, because electrical problems are a real specialty. I had a horn go south, on one of my Towncars, I brought it to a known auto electrical specialist, and spent the better part of the day, waiting for the car, the eventual fix, was a small piece of black tape, on a feed wire, to the tune of $200. After watching what this guy went through, I couldn't bitch. Good luck, and keep us informed. Retired old Gearhead 1 Link to post Share on other sites
Retired old Gearhead 201 Posted September 4, 2015 Share Posted September 4, 2015 Like Walt wisely said "...bring the car to a pro"..Electrical issues can be very hard to diagnose but usually easy to fix..but you need to have a real specialist in Spark electrical look at it because you have multiple issues going on. As far as the horn..if indeed the horn is bad..maybe consider a super duper cool air horn..not expensive and can be installed in minutes. I had one once and it really got the attention of drivers..specially the morons texting at a red light or all over the road while texting. Having never sent a text in my life on my Samsung Rugby flip phone or any other phone for that matter..I can only imagine how distracting that can be and an air horn will wake them up to the error of their ways pretty darn fast. My little flip phone has voice activation integrated with the MyLink BlueTooth thing and if I want to call I just say for example.."call Joan" and it will ask me if I want to call Joan Home, Mobile or work and just answer yes or no. The volume comes thru the car speakers and can be set as loud as I want...OK..Nuff said on that. Skids 1 Link to post Share on other sites
cornflakes 9 Posted September 5, 2015 Author Share Posted September 5, 2015 Interesting. Took the car in today to a Chevrolet service center....they took a look at my car and tested the fuses I assume. Then after about 10 minutes, tech guy came back to me and explained that they would need to open up the steering wheel but they had no time today. Huh? They still had 3 hours of operating hours to go before closing time. I guess they had a lot of bookings and I just came in cold without an appointment. So he told me to come back next week (since I can't make it on a weekday). So it sounds like the car horn issue is not the fuse or the horn itself but maybe a connection issue inside the steering wheel or some wiring/electrical issue. Here's the interesting part that is related to my brake light issue. I'll probably write this twice in my other thread about the brake light issue but just thought I'd mention it here also. The brake light issue actually WAS the fuse. It was a blown fuse (the 15A one for electrical) which is located inside the car underneath the dash bottom left side. My small town local mechanic replaced the fuse and bam, the brake lights were back on working fine. It worked fine for the next 2 days until today when I went to the Chevrolet car service center to get the car horn checked out. I didn't tell them about the brake light issue I had. After the inspection and telling me to come next week because they had no time to check my car horn issue today, I tried to turn on the car and the same problem happened again. The brake lights weren't working so therefore I couldn't start the car with the push start button. I turned it out the alternative way which was to just hold the start button for 7 seconds. When the car started, I noticed that everything was on, my fans were on near full and AC was on. The technician must've turned them on when he did the inspection. That led me to believe that I think the brake lights stop working because the fuse gets blown when AC is turned on. It never happened before but the first time it happened, it was when I had the AC on. It makes me think it might be related. Link to post Share on other sites
cornflakes 9 Posted September 12, 2015 Author Share Posted September 12, 2015 car horn was replaced with a new oem one, they had to remove the bumper to do it (process was $40 alone for the bumper removal). eletrical issue fixed, turns out it was just a short from a couple wires that were partially torn or exposed. Hope its all good now. Skids 1 Link to post Share on other sites
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