How to Replace Horn 2005-11 Honda Civic

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To remove the front bumper, you can do this on the ground. We just have it up in the air so you can see what we're doing. But you need to come under here and pop out all of these clips. These are holding on the front bumper. There's a couple back here, over here. Just got to look for all these clips. Some of yours might be missing or broken. But you just want to take those out first before you go up top to start to remove the bumper.

We use a clip removal tool. That's actually supposed to go under the clip. Pry it down, and pull that clip out. Go on and do the same for all of them. Sometimes they get stuck with dirt. Might need a smaller, thinner screwdriver. They get stuck, and get bound up with dirt. Pop them out. I'm going to go along and do this for the whole bumper. Pull the last one out of here, and your bumper is loose at the bottom. Go up top, and finish removing it.

There's a Phillips head screw inside this opening here in the splash shield. Got to remove that. Going to repeat this for the other side. We're going to remove this plastic air guide in the engine compartment. It's got some push clips. Use a small flat-bladed screwdriver to work those up. Going to use my trim tool. Pop them out. Do the same with the other one. This is actually clipped underneath this little piece of trim here. You can pull up, just pop it out, and do the same on this side. Just pull it up. Pop that pin out. Push it this way a little bit. Lift that up. It's got a lip that's pushed into the grill, so just pull out.

Going to pull this trim out. I need to pull that clip out. Just going to pop this one up, just so I can move this trim a little better. Just need to slide it over like that. Then we're going to pull this out from behind the grill. Going to slide it up and off of the hood latch. Flex it off. Spray a little rust penetrant on these. These are T-35 Torx. Break them free. We'll do this for the one on the other side. With all the bolts and clips removed from the bumper, you should be able to pull it out of the clips that it snaps into. It snaps into, just like that, into these brackets. You're going to pull it out. It's going to sound like it's breaking, but it's really just breaking free of the clips. I'm just going to pop it just like that. Do the same for the other side. Reach your hand in here. Just give it a swift tug. Pop it right off. Then we can put this aside.

I'm going to spray some rust penetrant on the backside of this bolt because it goes through, and I can see it's kind of rusty. Try to undo this bolt—it's really rusty on our car, and it's just twisting because it's just thin sheet metal. What I'm going to do is this whole thing is a horn bracket, I can just push the horn up, just bend it slightly out of the way. It's just thin sheet metal.

I'll take my 12 millimeter, and I'm going to remove the bolt that is holding the bracket to the car. And then I'll put the bracket on the bench in a vice and try to remove the whole one. Just take this off. With that loose I can push this block in on the connector. Pull it off, and that will go over to the bench.

I'm just going to gently put this in the vice. Take my 12 millimeter, try and remove it. That's really rusty. Spray some rust penetrant in here. It's a little loose, but it's still rusty. What I'm going to do is I'm going to tighten it again, and try and work the rust penetrant into the threads. Try to get this in here as best I can. I'll just work it back and forth. Now I've got it free.

I'm going to take some pliers, and just bend this back roughly where it was. If pliers won't do it, I can also put it in the vice. And we'll just gently put it back into place, perfect. One bracket goes here. This little tab kind of gets held in that hole, reinstall it. Tighten it down, actually bend this down because I kind of bent it, roughly back in the same spot. The horn sits between these two little tabs to keep it from spinning.

I'm going to reinstall that bolt, get it started and tighten it down. Okay, lastly reconnect the electrical connector. The horn is reinstalled.

Going to reinstall our bumper. Going to push it straight in and line it up with the brackets. Slide it up into place. Feed the fender liner underneath it. Then pull it up and push it out of the bracket. Push it onto the bracket under the headlight. Go to the other side. Do the same. Going to line up the other side. This under liner is caught. Push it in there. Just pull that all into place. Push the under liner to the inside of the bumper here. It's OK if that pops back out. Just pop that back in. When the bumper's clicked into place, you can reinstall the screws and all the clips.

Reinstall the self-tapping screws. Hold the end of the bumper on. Just repeat that for the other side. Reinstall these screws. Going to reinstall this air guide. It's flexible, so just going to slide it up and over. You got to fit it over these little rubber bump stops. These tabs actually go underneath the fender. Then this lip goes behind the grill. Flex it into place, just like that. Bring this up and slide this over. Fold this up. It goes like that. Do the same for the other side. Flip this in. Push it in. Flip this over. Put this under the plastic trim. Reinstall the clip that was here. Going to reinstall this clip on this side and repeat that for the other side. Reinstall these push clips, and do the same for both sides. Replace all the push clips. Just go along the bumper and reinstall all your push clips.

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