How to Replace Horns 2003-07 Honda Accord

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Hi everyone, Sue here from 1AAuto and today on our 07 Honda Accord we have in the shop, I'm going to show you the location and how to dismantle and reassemble the horn assembly. If you need any parts for your car, click on the link below and head on over to 1AAuto.com.

The hood release is on the driver's side, left side kick panel down by the driver's left foot. It's clearly marked with a hood on it. Pull the cable. The safety latch, release latch is right here in the center right above the H symbol. Then you have your hood rod, it goes right into the indicator. You see the arrow pointing down to that square, prop it in there.

We're going to release the body clips on the shroud area on the front of the nose of the engine. And I have these little pliers that have pinchers on them and they go on each side. We can pull that body clip right out. We're going to remove all of them. Last body clip, and now we have two Phillips plastic body style clips. I just use a small pocket screwdriver and just turn it slowly. The threads on these because they're plastic on plastic, it just really is, there's no method to it. Now we can grab our cover, lift it up.

So I raise and supported my vehicle so I can get underneath it and take down the splash guard of the front here where it attaches to the front plastic bumper. Same procedure as up on top with these clips. Now there's supposed to be some metal bolts for these tins, but the car has gone through some ages of salt and sand, so they're all broken off. I lowered the vehicle midrange for me, so that I can grab a Phillips screwdriver and you'll see the actual Phillips head right here, attaching that fender well. Going to take this out and repeat the process on the other side.

So if you follow the fender line over into the middle fender, the plastic bumper, right in here there are three body clips that just slide the plastic and lock it in. So you're going to grab in your fender well and give it a good pull. See there's the indents. And then you're going to follow around to the other side, do the same thing. Then we have two bolts right here in the same spot on the other side, passengers side, 10 millimeter socket. Now we're going to take those off.

So now we have the two bolts out. We should be able to grab this plastic fender well and just pull it right out. Whenever you're removing a front bumper, this styrofoam bumper cover is factory and they usually just use masking tape. As you can see, that's straight from the factory. Now weather has worn our tape here. So I'm just going to quickly tape this, so it's sturdy again and it's easier for us to work with.

To access the horn assembly, we're going to take this plastic cover off and it's just two tabs right here. Pull out that tab. There's one actually, it's three tabs. One on the other side just like that side and then there's the top and one on the bottom. Place that up here. Now you can see the horns. See the connectors and the mounted bracket. The mounting bolt for the horn assembly is a 12 millimeter socket. Now we can see that the horn has just the electrical connector, same as all tick a tab. Push down on that tab and pull them out. With it being a horn, don't be surprised if it's really sticky. It has all the road sand in it. So I take a little flathead screwdriver and I might just help it a little bit. Don't want to break it, I just want to lift that tab up. And there's our horn assembly.

Now if you're buying a universal horn and not a factory horn, it's going to come with a new bracket and the nut and a splicer. And you're going to end up splicing this into the new horn style, if it's universal. Always make sure that when you remount the horn if you do a universal one, to leave the actual horn opening facing down. Not out this way or straight up. You want to keep the water, if it does go up, you want to have it drain out. That's why they designed it this way in the factory.

Before I remount it, I'm going to put the clip back on. Make sure you hear it snap and just line that right up. And it's the same process on the other side. So now we're going to install the front bumper cover. Get a good handle on it. Bring that right in. I'm going to line up the top first. You see these tabs right here? That tab goes right inside that tab on that middle bumper, right on both sides. Get one side, then come over and do the other side. Line everything up. Just give it a good push. Make sure you put your fender skirt up inside before you push the final tab in. Well this side went in nice and smooth.

Before I put any plastic clips in or the Phillips heads on the fender well, I'm going to put in the actual mounting bolts up here, line this all up and get it nice and secure before I do that. This side's lined up. Put my 10 millimeter socket head bolt in. Just snugging it, and I'm going to go to the other side, see what is going on. See if I can get this to line up. There we go. Now I'm ready to snug these down. I'm going to raise it up, put the two fender skirt screws in. Then bring it all the way. I'm going to take the mounting Phillips screw, bring it right in there, snug that down. Repeat the process on the other side.

So now this fender skirt goes up underneath the front bumper cover. There's enough flexibility in it that you can just pry it down. Push it up into place. Now we'll take our plastic inserts. Then put them into place. Now if yours is in better contact than this one, you will have once again three 10 millimeter head bolts on each fender well in that side and on this side. And the are plastic pins, push in pins. These ones were missing or broken. Okay, now we're going to bring it down, put our top radiator cover on.

Last piece we're going to install is our upper cover. You guide the hood latch in, pretty simple. And the cover has this little tab right here. See the plastic cut off? I'm just going to manipulate, bend it, put it right inside the fender well. Then we have all our plastic push tabs. Just go around, line them all up and push them into place. Last two are these, the little top screws, the plastic screws. And then I just take the plastic screw, line it up, push it down. Ready to go. Let's close the hood.

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