I expect its easily done if you don't own a Ti. :P
I use the speedo, and concentration, and it worked even in the Lexus 430, which is a darned quiet car . . .
Think about three or four hundred quid - indeedy there's a section on cruise control in my website.
Cruise is great, you can eat, drink, read a book and not worry about getting done by speed cameras.
But where do you find time for the phone calls?
Butchering the new car already? :P
What car is it? Some newer cars can be upgraded to cruise control by the fitment of a control stalk and an ECU reprogram. My '03 Astra 2.0DTi has it now.... Most (Vauxhall, not so sure about others) cars with electronically controlled throttle valve (i.e no accelerator cable) can be treated the same as well. Some need a clutch pedal switch to be added. The diesel has this already.
HTH
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I really need to be able to sit at 60-70mph for the journey for fuel economy reasons, as I am about to be travelling about 25k miles per year. I don't really have the self discipline to do this, and having tried out the CC in the Merc I am now truely hooked
Yah I remember reading about your one... cheers dervy
Hands free kit of course - it's illegal (or soon will be) to use a hand held phone while driving don't ya know
Get a endura powered Ka, problem solved. Or a reliant robin. Aint that right dervy ;-)
The Dervboy
Nope on the first, probably on the second!
Out of interest, if economy is an issue, why did you get a supercharged car? And if you wanted cruise, wasn't it an option - surely it would have been a whole lot less hassle as a factory option rather than getting it retro-fitted.
Just wondering....
Peter
Werent you telling us last week about how economical this was. Comparable to a Micra i seem to remember? Ha. Fool - should have got a diesel (or kept the Micra)
Didn't they do this in France? I remember some Nissan chuff telling me that the Micra was so economical, it didn't need a diesel engine, so I proved otherwise . . . mwahahahahahah!
Heh.
Why a petrol car, never mind the supercharger bit, heh.
Although the MB supercharger disengages at a cruise to save fuel . . . neat cunning system . . .
I was just taking the pee. I know that the endura powered Ka can _indicate_ in excess of 100mph on the speedo. I think the indicated speed in your photograph (where you weren't on the public highway, guv) needs to be verified with a calibrated instrument though ;-)
The Dervboy
I was talking about the LPG Ford Puma wrt to long distances. It already has
80k on the clock (from new), so I figure I may as well run it into the ground.
I beleive in that particular photo he had a nitrous system fitted.
Dervy?
z> But now that I have played with CC for the first time I am truely addicted.
Absolutely. It's good, innit?
I fell in love with CC when I first used it on the Carlton - one button to accelerate, another one to back off - like you say, you can go for ages without using a single pedal. And Carlton's system is hardly the most advanced either.
Peter
Yep, in Decemebrr they create a whole new class of criminal mastermind to be stamped out.
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