1995 Volvo 850GLT Cracked Plastic Tab-New Steering Wheel?

viper69 · Post by **viper69** » 27 Mar 2014, 16:21

This is a part 2 of my horn problem. After some more digging around, they identified the problem for my intermitent horn problem. There's a cracked plastic tab below some metal plate, as someone had suggested in my previous post.

In any event, are these parts available OR do I need an entire new steering wheel?? I wouldn't even know the part number.

Second, if I need to get a new steering wheel, ie, a used one, should I save the old one?

Alternatively, I was told they could disconnect the lower left hand portion of the wheel to disable that portion of the horn operation.

Thanks in advance.

Post by **Ozark Lee** » 27 Mar 2014, 16:40

Odometergears.com has the repair kit that includes the replacement parts and instructions on how to fix it.

...Lee

viper69 · Post by **viper69** » 27 Mar 2014, 16:45

Ozark Lee wrote:Odometergears.com has the repair kit that includes the replacement parts and instructions on how to fix it.

...Lee

Hi Lee! I was hoping you'd see this. Yes I remember your helpful post before. However, I wasn't sure if there were other plastic parts that would be causing this. In short, I didn't want to buy something that wouldn't fix it.

I may be able to get pictures of the steering wheel up shortly.

Post by **polskamafia mjl** » 27 Mar 2014, 18:25

So you finally checked the horn contacts?

As Lee and others have mentioned in your original post, the plastic tabs are broken. The only plastic tabs associated with the horn are the ones for the horn contacts. The odometer gears kit will fix it.

viper69 · Post by **viper69** » 27 Mar 2014, 18:43

polskamafia mjl wrote:So you finally checked the horn contacts?

As Lee and others have mentioned in your original post, the plastic tabs are broken. The only plastic tabs associated with the horn are the ones for the horn contacts. The odometer gears kit will fix it.

Yes. In my recent post I updated with something I had noticed. Unfortunately, what I had noticed this time, had happened last time I brought the car in. However, I had forgotten to mention it to the mechanic then, it was subtle back then. Plus, they could never replicate the problem.

I waited until the horn was acting up more consistently and when I could somewhat reliably replicate the problem for the mechanic in front of him. Once he saw that, he was able to figure it out.

Never had a problem ever w/the horn, new territory for me

I ordered the replacement from OdometerGears thanks to Lee. Should be here next week.

The next task will be replacing the boot on the manual stick shift.