strange horn issue

[sportlineguy]

When I had the initial PPI on my 2001 996 the Porsche tech at the dealership said that the high horn was out. Since this would require the front bumper cover to come off i saved it for another day. Ordered the new high horn, removed the front bumper cover and cleaned out the radiators (not to bad, pretty clean for 32k) and had my son hit the horn so I could see which was out. It turned out that both worked so now I am stuck. The horn sounds wimpy with both working - I put my hand on each and each sounds. Is it possible that at one point the high horn was replaced with a low horn and both are the same? Is there any way to test this without taking off both and looking at the part numbers?

I put the bumper cover back on to enjoy driving it as the weather is not too bad - and it is not too bad a job to take it off again but want to make sure that it will be correct once finished.

All ideas appreciated.

[Loren]

:welcome:

The horns are problematic and most folks replace them with a better after market horn or a small air horn (that is what I did - ).

Taking a horn off is simple - just one nut.

996-635-206-04 high-tone horn

996-635-205-04 low-tone horn

[logray]

Aside from looking for the part number stamped on the units, I'm not sure how else you would accomplish this.

High 99663520604

Low 99663520504