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mk6 steering wheel, no horn
« on: June 15, 2014, 07:50:37 pm »
Hi, looking for help, fitted mk6 steering wheel into my mk5 gti, along with mk6 cruise control stalk and 'ch' module, everything works ok apart from no horn now,  it was working right up till removed old steering wheel. Checked fuse its ok

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Re: mk6 steering wheel, no horn
« Reply #1 on: June 15, 2014, 08:00:26 pm »
It is quite common for the wires into the left sided buttons to become loose when removed.

Only way to check is remove the left sided buttons, open up the plastic casing and see if one of the skinny black wires has detached from the internal plug.
Seen this with two used mk6 MFSW's.
Used to have Edition 30 - number 009 and a GT TDI 140.
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Re: mk6 steering wheel, no horn
« Reply #2 on: June 15, 2014, 08:17:28 pm »
also a small round plug for grounding where the wire is very short, can come lose, did when i fitted the mk 6 mfsw in the wifes touran

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Re: mk6 steering wheel, no horn
« Reply #3 on: June 15, 2014, 08:40:35 pm »
Thanks for the replies guys, will remove the buttons on left hand and strip down to check wires,and danish, can you describe where the grounding wire is, cheers


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Re: mk6 steering wheel, no horn
« Reply #4 on: June 15, 2014, 08:42:21 pm »
Did you change the loom?

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Re: mk6 steering wheel, no horn
« Reply #5 on: June 15, 2014, 08:52:23 pm »
No used the mk6 loom

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Re: mk6 steering wheel, no horn
« Reply #6 on: June 16, 2014, 05:16:20 am »
Thanks for the replies guys, will remove the buttons on left hand and strip down to check wires,and danish, can you describe where the grounding wire is, cheers



When you remove the airbag a small round plug is fitted to a steel ring on the steering wheel itself, it loosens as you remove the airbag as the wiring for it is extremely short.



the one inside the inner red circle

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Re: mk6 steering wheel, no horn
« Reply #7 on: June 16, 2014, 02:53:12 pm »
Danish, your my hero, I remember seeing that wire when I was fitting the wheel, and thought it was taped up as an ancilliary wire for something else, I will go and fit it now, thanks

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Re: mk6 steering wheel, no horn
« Reply #8 on: June 16, 2014, 06:02:10 pm »
Danish, your my hero, I remember seeing that wire when I was fitting the wheel, and thought it was taped up as an ancilliary wire for something else, I will go and fit it now, thanks

Exactly my own thought when i saw it, but you're wellcome  :drinking:

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Re: mk6 steering wheel, no horn
« Reply #9 on: June 16, 2014, 06:38:31 pm »
Fitted the wire and the horn works

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Re: mk6 steering wheel, no horn
« Reply #10 on: June 16, 2014, 06:56:49 pm »
Fitted the wire and the horn works

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Re: mk6 steering wheel, no horn
« Reply #11 on: March 28, 2020, 09:52:28 pm »
I'm eager to remove, and check the wiring tomorrow as well.  I was in a rush to do the swap.
All 12 buttons work, except for the horn in my case.