Alright, first of all. Im new to this forum. I found out about this forum from Club-tc. It's pretty much dead over there all the time..so not much support.


I was wondering if i could get some help here; the buttons on my steering wheel don't work. Not even the horn. Now i THINK i need to buy the horns because this car was crashed when i bought it. I will be posting the rebuilding thread pretty soon here



Info: 2006 Scion tC Automatic.

 

i would like to help.. if i was able to actually inspect the car.

i suspect the wiring is the problem, but there's really no way to be 100% unless i see the car. i don't think you need to buy new horns.. wiring problems could be the cause of that too.

 

There is a yellow cable where the knee airbags goes. Could it be because that is disconnected? I have no knee airbags and no passenger airbag.

Edit: btw i know its an airbag cable because its a pretty thick cable. Just dont know if its the knee airbag cable or the steering wheel cable. and if it may have something to do with it or not.

 

well all you had to say was yellow.. and i knew it was airbags...
no, it doesn't have to do anything with it.

 

There are so many little things wrong with it that i have to fix. it sucks. sucks even more that i dont know much about cars..always have to pay to get things done.

 

Instead of paying this could be one of those priceless opportunities to learn how to do it yourself. But only if your a patient person of course.

 

I wouldn't even know how to take the steering wheel off

 

^^^very easy; just have to be careful disconnecting the airbag

 

ANY help or direction to even troubleshooting this would be greatly appreciated guys.

I just don't want to take this to a shop again for the 33432 time lol

 

disconnect battery
disassemble the steering wheel by first loosening 2 T-30 torx screws on each side of the steering wheel.

pull out the airbag.

inspect wiring behind airbag.