air bag light on, cruise not available, volume control inoperable, no horn. how do i remove center section of steering wheel. Im thinking that there must be a plug that came undone. any thoughts?

 

May I suggest you ensure your battery is fully charged before doing any other troubleshooting, as weak/failing batteries are often the root cause of many apparent problems with our cars.

 

battery is 1 year old. put batt on trikle charge for 24 hr. batt 1 year old still no resolution to the prob. watched youtube video now know how to take center of steering wheel off. will do that and check connections in steering wheel.

 

Does the S type have frequent clockspring problems like the Lincoln LS?

 

No - use Search and see how rare - but it can happen.

 

thankyou for your response. sounds like you hit the nail on the head. looking into replacing clocksping any help on where to get a replacement

 

Without any car details (Again!) We are not able to help?
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just ordered new clockspring. did some additional research and all the issues seem to point in the direction of the clockspring. thankyou sooo much for your response it sure pointed me in the right direction. S-TYPE does have 142,000 miles and things do wear out trying to keep this vehicle in good running order.. my 1600 dollar drug seisure car

 

For your sake, I hope that's your solution. Otherwise, I'm sorry for pointing you in the wrong direction. Perhaps something is just unplugged. You'll have to open it up and look though

I did a brief search and nothing really came up, which is why I asked if it was a problem instead of giving the one of the top 5 LS answers "It's your clockspring" as a statement.

 

My thanks to FDR, it was a clocksping that went bad. replaced it today andc all my functions are back, her is a breakdown ofthe change for anybody who might need this info. First disconnect batt, reve air bag by removing screws from back of steering wheel. Remove black and grey plugs from back of air bag, slide yellow tabs back and squeeze tabs on both sides and pull up. on lower right side of steering wheel unplug electrical connector. Remove bolt from center of steering wheel make sure you index orientation and steering wheel will slide of of the splines. Remove panel below steering column 4 screws and set aside. remove 2 screws on bottom steering column cover and remove. 2 srcews hold the top panel on remove you now have complete access to the clockspring.remove 4 bolts holding the clockspring in place, unplug the the connector on the left and right side. chnage over the left and right side assembly's to new clockspring. installation is reverse of disassembly. took more time to figure out what needed to be removed in order to access the clocksping. thanks to those who provided me with your input