Back in October, someone posted about a horn that was failing intermittently on his 1998 Accord. I have the same problem, so I wrote to ask his if he solved it, and he wrote back to say it was diagnosed by a mechanic as a faulty cable reel, which is the where the horn, cruise, and airbag signals go through the steering wheel. It appears that my cable reel is bad, too, so I just thought I'd post here and let everyone know about it. Maybe this will end up being a high-failure component in the future. It concerns me, too: if the airbag deployment signal goes through the same component, how do we know IT'S not intermittent, too? I ordered a new assembly from Honda, and I'll reply to this post to let everyone know if it fixes it, once I get it installed. (my symptoms, for the record: horn works always with no key in the ignition. once the car is running, horn works UNLESS steering wheel is perfectly centered. Once key is removed, horn works again)