Recently I noticed that my steering wheel started to produce cracking sound when turned... First I thought I have problem with clock spring, so I decided to take off steering wheel airbag, to make sure,and when taking it off, I noticed cracking sound is coming from horn mechanism on steering wheel(I can reproduce it with airbag taken off)- where metal airbag holder connects with plastic spring holder(as marked on photo). I can't figure out why this sound came up, when nothing is broken-maybe plastic spring holder become loose or worn? Did anybody had similar issue,is there some solution,it is very annoying I also tried tightening two screws which hold airbag, they are as tight as possible,so I eliminated that...

 

anybody?

 

I'm not too familiar with moving parts of the steering wheel and what would make a cracking noise. sorry.

 

I think I have the same issue but it is only intermittent and only happens turning the wheel to the right (like I said..sometimes).

NO idea if it is the airbag or not.

 

Mine makes noise when I turn the wheel. It seems to be the airbag/horn cover rattling. It doesn't happen on hot days because the components expand and snug everything up.

 

so there is some factory issue,I am not alone...
I managed to 'fix' it by putting piece of rubber between airbag and grey part with audio controls...it is ugly,and it makes hard using horn on that piece of steering wheel,but I couldn't think of another way to fix this