72 super horn wont blow

[vwbugg2275]

we have good working horn(bench tested) but the horn wont do a thing in the car have no juice going to it at all
fuse is good

connections look good
what else is there to look at for problems
the car is a 1 owner car with 60,000 miles
the girl that owns it now is second owner and we cant get this stupid horn to work at all    any help to get it working will help but dont say that it what i already said is good in the car we need more ideas than what we have check which is already stated here

[gkeeton@zbzoom.net]

If you're not getting power to it, that is the first problem that needs to be solved. When the ignition is turned on, one of wires going to the horn should have power. Usually the ground wires are brown, so the power wire should be black, or black with a yellow dash/stripe. You need to trace the wire through the entire harness to see if it is broken, or has a bad connection. Once you've solved that problem, and it still doesn't work, then you need to trace the connections in the steering column. The horn button simply grounds the horn by grounding it to the body through the column. Unfortunately when dealing with 39 year old cars, low milage, and single owners have very little relevance.

[John P]

If you're not getting power to it, that is the first problem that needs to be solved. When the ignition is turned on, one of wires going to the horn should have power. Usually the ground wires are brown, so the power wire should be black, or black with a yellow dash/stripe. You need to trace the wire through the entire harness to see if it is broken, or has a bad connection. Once you've solved that problem, and it still doesn't work, then you need to trace the connections in the steering column. The horn button simply grounds the horn by grounding it to the body through the column. Unfortunately when dealing with 39 year old cars, low milage, and single owners have very little relevance.

+2 re: above. My low mileage, bought from the original owner '67 is suffering the same problem. For what it's worth, I'm tracing a suspected short between the horn the steering wheel. Not fun.

Good luck.