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Posted: Thu May 18, 2006 10:34 pm 
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installed it all as per instructions:

went for a drive and pressed "on"
cruise light came on in the dash and i hit "set"
Nothing
pressed all the buttons and still no engadgment.

What did i do wrong or could be wrong or should i check for?

 

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Posted: Fri May 19, 2006 12:06 am 
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Posted: Fri May 19, 2006 12:26 am 
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me thinks i may have found the prob, i didn't short the clutch plug.
hopefully this is all that is wrong

 

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Posted: Fri May 19, 2006 11:01 am 
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Twoz the clutch plug, jumped it and went for a drive and voila it works beautifully

 

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Posted: Fri May 19, 2006 1:23 pm 
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Great to hear :)
Nice work Dave!

 

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Posted: Sun May 21, 2006 5:01 pm 
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i put cruise in my 97 el gli and it didnt have a cluch plug to short or i could not find it but it works
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Posted: Fri May 26, 2006 6:07 pm 
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well my cruise is now only working intermittenly, the dash light comes on and sometimes it will engadge but then cut out, but mostly it just doesn't engadge and i found out today that my horns are now not working.


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Posted: Fri May 26, 2006 6:10 pm 
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horns/cruise buttons work off the same circuit.
i'd check the plug behind the airbag first up.

 

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Posted: Fri May 26, 2006 6:37 pm 
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Davehimself wrote:
me thinks i may have found the prob, i didn't short the clutch plug.
hopefully this is all that is wrong


clutch plug? is this only for manuals?

 

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Posted: Fri May 26, 2006 6:43 pm 
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there is a wiring plug there, in manuals it goes to a clutch switch so the car doesn't try to rev up during gear changes.
in an auto this isnt required so the plug just gets shorted out. (ie, join the 2 pins in the plug)

 

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Posted: Fri May 26, 2006 9:15 pm 
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Going by your airbag fault post, I would say the airbag and cruise/horn plugs are connecting intermittently or the clock spring is cactus..

 

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Posted: Fri May 26, 2006 9:38 pm 
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nah cleared the airbag fault it just needed resetting because i removed it to have a look at the wires, and the horn not working was because i didn't plug the damn thing back in after installing the spotties.

 

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Posted: Sat May 27, 2006 3:44 am 
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Davehimself wrote:
nah cleared the airbag fault it just needed resetting because i removed it to have a look at the wires, and the horn not working was because i didn't plug the damn thing back in after installing the spotties.


So, is it working now or what?

If it is ...goodonya!

If not ...f**k.

Haha, I thought I had the same horn problem when I changed my steering wheel, but it turned out to be nothing to do with me at all, ...the absent-minded f**k at the Spoiler Shop hadn't reconnected the horn plugs when they put my Venom Kit on some 2 months before, but I hadn't noticed as I didn't have to give anyone 'the bird'!

 

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Posted: Sat May 27, 2006 4:08 am 
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LOL

Caution Horn broken,
Watch for Finger.

 

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