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Old 06-21-2011, 08:36 PM
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Help; I have a problem with the horn blowing when it wants to. I first noticed it when accelerating from a stop (I thought someone was blowing their horn at me). It doesn't do it every time but seems to be more predominant when the car is warmed up a bit. It will just toot a little toot during acceleration (not necessarily hard acceration, just normal driving). Needless to say I am eventually gonna P.O. someone. No other controls seem to be affected (ie. cruise control). Has anyone run into a similar situation and if so how did you cure it? Thanks for any help you can share.
 
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Old 06-22-2011, 03:24 AM
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Remove the horn relay and see if it stops... if it does, replace the horn relay and see if it stays away - if so, good...

If not, then it's just about got to be a faulty horn switch in the steering wheel,

OR the Green/blue stripe wire from steering column to BPM that's chafed and shorting to body intermittently,

OR same (chafed, shorting to body) with the Green/white stripe wire between the BPM and the horn relay.

Last, least likely would be a bad BPM.
 

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Old 06-22-2011, 06:25 AM
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Thanks, Sounds easy enough to try the relay. But I hate to ask but what's a BPM?
 
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