Cruise Control Problem
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Cruise Control Problem
Over the past 3-4 months, I have been having some issue with my cruise control staying on. At first it only happened occasionally (every few hundred miles). Now it seems to happen every time I drive more that 15-20 miles. I will have the cruise set and it shuts off. I turn it back on, and it usually turns off again in a couple of miles. Anyone have this problem before?
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I contacted my dealer about 3 weeks ago to see if there was a recall on the 2003's cruise control. The dealer told me that no recalls showed up when they entered my vin #. I thought I had read on this forum that there was a CC recall on the 2003's but apparently I was wrong.
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Re: Cruise Control Problem
The cruise control if I'm not mistaken is disengaged by the brake pedal switch and or the pressure switch on the end of the master cylinder. Also if your brake pedal is loose or moves up and down alot while driving it can bump the brake light switch and cause the cruise to disengage. The pressure switch on the master cylinder is a normally closed switch when pressure is not on it. If this switch is going bad and it loses contact within itself when the brake pedal is not pressed it will also cause the cruise to disengage. Both are fairly easily replaced. My master cylinder switch went bad which caused my cruise to not work at all because the contacts in the switch were not closed in the "at rest" state, according to the dealer I talked to. When I replaced it the cruise worked again. The recall that was mentioned earlier refers to a fused pigtail the dealerships put on the harness going to the pressure switch on the master cylinder. Before the fuses were installed the switches would sometimes go bad or short causing the wiring or the switch to over heat and sometimes starting fires.
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