I've had my car, about 3 weeks now, and about a week ago i went to honk at someone who cut me off, and ...nothing...everything looks like its hooked up right but i cant get it to work....any ideas?
So you have confirmed that you are getting 12 volts at the horn wire when the button is pushed? If so, you have a bad horn
Here's another thought. The horns have ajustments on them. I think there's a screw on the back of them that regulate the volume and pitch of the horn. If it's screwed in all the way, the horn makes no sound. If that's not the problem, it the horn relay may have gone bad or the horn it'self may have gone bad.
So what your saying Jean, is that I could have made my horn louder without resorting to putting a old school bus horn on. When people pull out in front of me or cut me off now, they KNOW about it!
Long time ago my horn stopped working. I fiddled around with the little screw, shot some WD40 in there and in the front, and it started working. That was about 25 years ago, has worked ever since. Hmmm, the later Mavs have a fuse for the horn? Mine goes through the circuit breaker in the headlight switch.
Really not sure if it's the same on a Maverick but on the Ford F100's 67-72 years there is a ground strap at the base of the column under the rag joint that gets broken sometimes and keeps the horn from working. I traced my horn wiring in my 71 F100 for a solid day before I figured that one out. Made a wire jumper to jump the rag joint and it still works today. clint
An some times its the contact in the steer coloum, Ive had a few looked like some one spilled coffee. coke who knows what an prevented the contacts from working , just blast with a tad of componet cleaner , ,an BEEP BEEP !!
