This started last summer IIRC. I'd be driving on the highway and the CC would kick out unexpectedly. Searching, I came to the conclusion there was a problem with my actuator. As moving and/or lubing the cable didn't improve my problem, I set about to rebuild the actuator following a link I found here somewhere. Completing the rebuild, the problem persisted.
The problem had no rhyme or reason. Sometimes the CC would hold for a few minutes, sometimes for a few seconds. Totally random. As the camping season wound down, I didn't care much about the issue as we were mostly doing local driving.
However, for Thanksgiving we had plans to drive to visit family in western Missouri (~1,900) roundtrip with all but a couple hundred on I-70. CC was a must! I ordered a used actuator off ebay for $40, and tested it around the neighborhood, and all seemed good.
However, as soon as we hit CO-82 on the way out of town, the CC started its same old crap!
Unwilling to accept the fact that I would be driving in a straight line for 1,000 miles without being able to relax my right leg, I figured I had plenty of time to find some pattern to this madness.
Well, I can't remember where I was. I believe it was somehwere around the Colorado/Kansas border around 10pm two nights before Thanksgiving, I got my answer...
....the friggin' blinker! Doing a steady 5-7MPH over the speed limit requires quite a bit of lane changing. As I religiously and without conscious thought use my blinkers, I hadn't noticed the obvious. As soon as I touch that turn indicator left or right, INSTANTLY, out goes the CC.
Fortunately, I had well over 1,00 miles left to work on retraining my brain to not use the blinkers for changin lanes in Kansas where no one was around anyways. Rest assured, I still forgot after ever gas or potty brake as I have the mental retention of a poorly trained chimpanzee.
I assume there is some small short somewhere in that terrible steering wheel column gadgetry. Unfortunately, or fortunately, I need to get in there anyhow to fix a squeak that search has told me must be due to my horn.
Anyways, I thought this might help someone sometime, or at least provide a decent laugh at my expense...
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Nick
The problem had no rhyme or reason. Sometimes the CC would hold for a few minutes, sometimes for a few seconds. Totally random. As the camping season wound down, I didn't care much about the issue as we were mostly doing local driving.
However, for Thanksgiving we had plans to drive to visit family in western Missouri (~1,900) roundtrip with all but a couple hundred on I-70. CC was a must! I ordered a used actuator off ebay for $40, and tested it around the neighborhood, and all seemed good.
However, as soon as we hit CO-82 on the way out of town, the CC started its same old crap!
Unwilling to accept the fact that I would be driving in a straight line for 1,000 miles without being able to relax my right leg, I figured I had plenty of time to find some pattern to this madness.
Well, I can't remember where I was. I believe it was somehwere around the Colorado/Kansas border around 10pm two nights before Thanksgiving, I got my answer...
....the friggin' blinker! Doing a steady 5-7MPH over the speed limit requires quite a bit of lane changing. As I religiously and without conscious thought use my blinkers, I hadn't noticed the obvious. As soon as I touch that turn indicator left or right, INSTANTLY, out goes the CC.
Fortunately, I had well over 1,00 miles left to work on retraining my brain to not use the blinkers for changin lanes in Kansas where no one was around anyways. Rest assured, I still forgot after ever gas or potty brake as I have the mental retention of a poorly trained chimpanzee.
I assume there is some small short somewhere in that terrible steering wheel column gadgetry. Unfortunately, or fortunately, I need to get in there anyhow to fix a squeak that search has told me must be due to my horn.
Anyways, I thought this might help someone sometime, or at least provide a decent laugh at my expense...
\Nick
