That is a good question but for the simple horn relay I don't use a
socket and I don't screw the relay down. I just zip-tie it to the sheath
of the 2 stock horn wires that come down from above. The sheath is
factory zip-tied to the horn bracket so I zip-tie the relay above that
point. I make sure the relay legs are facing down so water won't get
inside the relay case.

I have scavenged various relay sockets from VWs and Audi and I sometimes
use them but for me that means splicing new wires to the cut off stubs
of the old factory wires on the sockets. More connections to fail and
wire color transitions. If I still had the proper quality tools I would
buy various new pins and socket shells to build everything from scratch.
Leave that to Jay Brown. He should offer the horn relays as part of his
Vanagon relay product lineup. I like his work on those relay kits he
sells. I stopped home making as many "hard start" relays setups for
people when he started offering them built to a higher level and a very
fair price. If he would just make single horn kit and a dual horn kit.

Mark

Jim Felder wrote:
> Likewise, I have too many high-quality german relays off of various VWs to
> ever buy one again, but where do you get the sockets? None of my spare
> relays have a mounting bracket built in, so I either need to add one or
> find a socket that will mount to sheet metal.
>
> Jim
>