A few days ago, my steering column started making a plastic clicking/breaking sound. Now, my turn signal arm is whack.

As if its not bad enough, now, when I turn the wheel, the horn honks, and the horn didn't even work before! The button works too now. Every right or left turn, I get 4 small honks from the horn. To add to that, while the car is parked, the horn will start sounding on its own for no reason, and keep blaring until the wheel is played with. I disconnected the horn, but sheesh!

any help here? What is needing replaced with the horn issue?



I think my car is falling apart......

 

The Turn Signal Canceling Cam has a metal circle on the back of it that carries the horns electrical path from the Turn Signal Switch to a Spring that is mounted to the bottom of the steering wheel. There are several plastic washers that go on the steering shaft and those are supposed to keep the spring from grounding to the shaft. If that spring is contacting anything metal in there your horn will sound constantly. You also want to check the wires that go the turn signal switch. There is supposed to be a plastic sleave that protects those wires from getting pinched. Those wires make their way up from the bottom of the steering column thru a bunch of assorted moving parts that operate your ignition switch. I think some of those wires were damaged somehow as you say your turn signals are working incorrrectly. I would look in the area where the column lock is. It is a flat metal disc that is held in with a c clip. I was able to remove it with my fingers and a pick but the auto parts stores have a tool that compresses it down so you can remove the c clip much easier. I'm not really sure what anchors the turn signal stalk in there as mine was just floating around near a couple of bumps in the upper column surround. But if you remove the turn signal switch there are some screws under it that allow you to remove the upper column surround. Maybe you could find it used at a junkyard somewhere. It looks like standard GM stuff so you may even be able to find a used column out of another car of that year vintage. The junkyard here has a computer program that tells them what will work in the different cars. Good Luck with your project.

 

That sounds about right...thanks for the help.

My tail light fuse keeps blowing now too...I think it has something to do with the way the blinkers are acting or something...

 

Yikes The Taillights are a whole different issue. They are operated by a switch over the brake pedal. Maybe you should remove your upper dash pad and make sure the wires in there are ok. If you remove your dash bezel and center bezel and look underneath you will see some screws. If you remove those and the two next to the defroster on top of the dash it should slide out. Then you can look down there and see all the wiring. Underneath the switches that are used to change the information on your dash there is a fuse. That is the horn fuse. Next to that is the horn relay. There is some other electrical stuff in there also. The seat belt chime box and another relay but i'm not exactly sure what that does.

 

Thanks. I've been in there before, had to find the burn off module...wasn't even close when i started.

anyways, I've never had the blowing fuse problem before. Either its something to do with the steering column or the knock sensor bypass i did. i'm leaning toward the knock sensor bypass, but I have no clue how that would do that. Never happened until then, now I've blown 3 in two days.

Roll the dice and swap a 15 amp in there??? Maybe I'm not blowing it by much...idk.

 

man it is a good thing that car is so fast or else!

 

If it wasn't, it would have already met a sledge hammer...