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[zx6rdr]

Marines,

I have an 2006 F350 6.0L and for the past two nights (12am or later) I have woken up to my horn constantly going off. It is not the intermittent horn blasts of the alarm or panic mode, it is constantly blowing (like someone has their hand constantly on the horn button) and it only happens at night..... Any ideas or suggestions of how I can tackle this problem?

thanks,

JT

[NoRemorse]

sounds like the steering wheel is pushing on the horn because of the cold.

Don't know if there's an easy fix beyond getting a new wheel.

[zx6rdr]

Damn, that is what I was afraid of... I don't want to be pulling the steering wheel off and having to deal with the airbag.

[NoRemorse]

You could use this as the excuse you finally needed to build a heated garage with a large truck bay

[zx6rdr]

Now that sounds like a plan!!!!!

[sscjoe]

Sounds like your truck is pizzed that the Chargers sit at the top of the division

[0331 2 0369]

I have had that issue twice with my truck. Both times that it happened over the past year, it was really damp out and had been for a few days. I just wrote mine off as moisture on a connection somewhere.

[NoRemorse]

I'm still trying to calculate how many beers its going to take to build the garage let alone work on his steering wheel.

[mcvet57103]

I had a problem similar, but it was the park lights coming on in the middle of the night. Turned out I had two wires rubbing together, and they had wore off the plastic covering between them. When the moisture in the van was just right it would cause the wires to short across till they heated up enough to evaporate the moisture. A little snooping with an amp meter, and electrical tape cured the problem. In your case I would say it's most likely in the steering column somewhere. SF

[SGT. Crist]

Check with your dealer about any recalls. I have seen a few recalls for Ford pickups for wiring in the steering columns.

[sparkie]

Just goes to show, Fords really blow.
actually had the same prob with interior lights, pulled the bulbs, problem solved.
you don't need a horn anyway.

[rickyracer]

I would check on recalls and TSB from Ford.

[MLMonk]

You could use this as the excuse you finally needed to build a heated garage with a large truck bay

He can also use this reason to get a new loud horn system ran off an air compressor, like the kind off of semi's.

[Gunner 0313]

The bigger question is how's that 6.0 ?

[zx6rdr]

Got it figured out, just pulled the fuse until I can have someone pull the airbag.... I definately didnt want to do that one by myself....