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Slip ring and contact on steering wheel
Posted: 15 Mar 2009, 11:53
by Uncle Nick
My Syncro just failed the MOT on (among other things) the horn only working intermittently. I checked the contacts on the switch and they were ok so I took the steering wheel off. The copper slip ring and the scraper contact are completely goosed.
Anyone know if it's possible to replace them, and where to get the parts or do I need a complete new steering wheel and indicator switch?
Many thanks, Nick
Re: Slip ring and contact on steering wheel
Posted: 15 Mar 2009, 14:04
by Aidan
the slip ring is a seperate part 321 419 661 A from vw about £11
I have a used manual steering wheel with a good horn contact here and will probably be coming to NE in a months time so if you don't get sorted let me know, regards
Re: Slip ring and contact on steering wheel
Posted: 15 Mar 2009, 14:37
by peasant
I recently bought a s/h steering wheel where the ring was pretty fubared as well. Luckily the contact on the steering wheel column was still good as was the connection from the wiring to the remains of the ring. All i needed to do was to pilfer some really thin copper strip from work, cut it to half ring shape, glue it to the wheel so that it overlapped the remaining good bit of ring ...worked a treat.
So what I'm trying to say is, if you got some parts left that make the contact, it's possible to bodge the thing on the cheap.