Posted by Zorba on March 28, 2009, 8:32 pm, in reply to "Back onto the Cruise Control"
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G'day It seems absolutely crazy as to how much/many processes are dependent on other seemingly unrelated items/processes in order for some basic function to work properly. It's even more so in the later rangies. There is a tenuous relationship between the brake and the cruise control but one wouldn't think it would make the system inoperable. Just my rambling thoughts - glad you got it all sorted out (though it doesn't surprise me that you did). --Previous Message-- Back in June 2007 I posted a piece on the cruise control and how I fixed it, well it seems that apart from the other problems I had mentioned previously there was still one that I had missed and it kept rearing it's ugly head infrequently, that is to say while driving on a long trip and after slowing down to 60KPH for a town, once out of it the cruise control would not engage for another 50Kilometers or so and was very irregular in it's behaviour. I finally found the problem, while on a trip and trying to get the CC operating I happened to look through the rear vision mirror in the Old Girl and noticed the high level brake light was on so I gave the brake pedal a light tap and off it went, then I tried engaging the CC and guess what? it worked. The problem was a faulty brake pedal switch, replaced it with a new one and the whole system works faultlessly. So I could well and truly understand someone else with a rangie that has no high level stop light, being totally lost as to what may be causing a similar problem with their vehicle. Regards:- Patrick M