Mexican Jeans Beetle (2000) - help

[flamegrilled]

Copper pick-up ring on back of steering wheel needs replacing.
Is this the same as all Mexican beetles?

[phade]

Hi there,

Are you sure that the steering wheel's slip ring has worn out ?

The most common cause of the horn push working intermittently are corroded contacts of the horn push its self. To fix that problem, prise off the horn push (you can actually do that with your fingers) and clean off the corrosion with a Dremel.

Cheers,

Phil

[flamegrilled]

The ring was damaged because the contact on the top of the steering column had a sharp edge.

The very nice chaps at Karmann Konnection have now sorted this for me after much searching through each and every type of VW parts pile that they own.