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  1. 8th July 2006, 10:09 AM #1
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    Exclamation My wife makes my car horny...... well sort of

    Can someone figure out what the hell is going on??....


    I gave the DiscoII to my wife for the day yesterday.... her car was being serviced.

    Mid morning the phone rings and all I can here is a car horn....wait a minute.. that's my car horn


    Then SWMBO yelling down the phone.. "HOW DO I TURN IT OFF!"...


    Well we tried locking and unlocking via the remote, we tried using the key in the door... tried swearing at it...tried swearing at each other.... nothing worked


    Now this was not the on/off noise the horn makes when the alarm goes off... it was long continuous beep.. like someone leaning on the horn.... checked the button wasn't stuck..

    ....Now all the neighbours are out to find out what is happening...


    While all this is happening... you can actually start the car.. as long as you can put up with the noise - so I figured it was NOT alarm related.


    Last resort, she lifts the bonnet... to disconnect the battery... Works out she needs a spanner and goes to the garage to get one.


    .... Obviously the Disco is a smart car... The horn stopped as she walked up the driveway spanner in hand... (probably scared of the though how her waving a spanner around in the engine bay....)


    My Question is what would cause this .... the horn beeped continuously for 20 minutes ... then stopped of it's own accord.Apparenty it started after she unlocked the car got in and put the key in the ignition... It has never happened before and I can't see anything wrong...


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  2. 8th July 2006, 10:43 AM #2
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    It was trying to warn you that it was about to become her car!
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    Is one of the horn switches sticking down ?
    That's a common problem.
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    Common self defense mechanism that Rover has built into a few vehicles that scare the other half of our lives into not wanting to drive .

    Actually I have no idea .
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  5. 8th July 2006, 01:11 PM #5
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    Quote Originally Posted by barryj
    Common self defense mechanism that Rover has built into a few vehicles that scare the other half of our lives into not wanting to drive .

    Actually I have no idea .
    Do you know if it can be retrofitted to a defender??

    Then I might get mine back



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  6. 8th July 2006, 02:19 PM #6
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    Quote Originally Posted by Bushie
    Do you know if it can be retrofitted to a defender??

    Then I might get mine back



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    Rover add a discalimer something like, once the vehicle passes hands to a spouse it is not possible for the horn activation device to have any effect .
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    My Question is what would cause this .... the horn beeped continuously for 20 minutes ... then stopped of it's own accord
    maybe it ran out of puff
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    Good to see wa all had such helpfun ideas on this one.
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  10. 8th July 2006, 05:38 PM #10
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    Quote Originally Posted by George130
    Good to see wa all had such helpfun ideas on this one.
    See that's why we all love this place....massive amounts of indepth knowledge and creative thinking......


    I was more curious if anyone had any idea... I guess if I wanted Technical answers... I should have posted in the technical forum.


    I reckon we are going pretty well so far..... I was sure by now there would have been at least one answer that would cause the missus to belt me...

    Thanks guys....
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