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The horn on my 2008 Yaris has stopped working

The horn was intermittant over a two week period, then it stopped working at all. is it the horn botton, relay, or horn?

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Someone would need to test the relay and the circuits it controls.
The horn pad grounds the relay to make the horn blow.

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Hello. Welcome to FixYa. Please allow us to help...

What you probably have is a bad "spiral cable", or better known as the "clockspring". This is a cable that winds and unwinds as the steering wheel is turned. This cable allows power to be transmitted to the air bag, to deploy it, in the event of a collision. Since the horn button is in front of the air-bag, the circuit that allows the horn to activate is also part of this cable device.

We would suggest having it properly checked by a professional who is very familiar with this device, and, if it is found to be bad, replaced. Non-professional diagnosis and poking about with the spiral cable could lead to an air bag that will not deploy.

Thanks for using FixYa for assistance today.

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