Disco 2 Td5 cruise control

Bantam1 · Mar 8, 2019

Well chuffed today I have now got cruise control.
Bought the steering wheel switch for £17.50 and the dash switch for only a little more.
Used the bracket off the stereo control switch to mount the cruise control on after I had used a piece of tape to transfer and cut out the hole needed for it.
Blanked off the stereo control hole with a bit of abs glued over the inside.
All plugged together easily and working great.

beanwood · Mar 8, 2019

It's very straight forward isn't it.
I remember being stunned by how easily it all just plugged in, and worked.
Nothings ever that easy - but it was!!

lynall · Mar 8, 2019

And it will still be pants, just like the D1 and the D3 cruise

Feathers McGraw · Mar 8, 2019

lynall said:
And it will still be pants, just like the D1 and the D3 cruise

Mine works fine. Very happy with it.

Bantam1 · Mar 8, 2019

well its not asa slick as the nissan or the ford we had previously but hey it works great.

lynall · Mar 9, 2019

Bantam1 said:
well its not asa slick as the nissan or the ford we had previously but hey it works great.

Not slick is maybe an understatment

I can rememebr my D1 cruise, bloody hell it slowed down on hills even slight ones, TD5 better but not by much and wasnt that accurate, the plus/minus paramters were to large, D3 can be a right sod set it and speed drops, reset it and it may hold and so on, when it works its okay as the car has enough power to shunt the thing along unlike the D1/2.
But compared to wifes Audis or previous mercs L/R system is pants.

Feathers McGraw · Mar 9, 2019

Cannot say I've really noticed that. Love having it when popping up to Dundee to visit daughter. Get on the M6, set the speed at 70 indicated which works out at 68/69 on the TomTom and relax. Knock it off on the steering wheel control at any junctions or busier sections and just resume after them. Never noticed any issues with speed differences and with all the average speed cameras they have up there it makes it easier not to stray over the limit as we always spot someone being pulled up by the Police.
The only niggle I have is there is only adjustment to gain speed, my other car allows the speed to be nudged up or down to adjust. Other than that I certainly rather have it than not given the low cost of fitting.

Si Click · Mar 9, 2019

No problems with mine either. It keeps to the selected speed without any noticeable deviation. If your D1/2s were slowing down on hills that sounds like a power issue rather than a cruise control problem. My D2 will sit very happily at 70 or 75 regardless of hills.
As mentioned, the only issue is having to disengage and engage in order to reduce the set speed. Modern systems may disengage more smoothly, have displays and can read road signs, flashing at you if you dare to exceed them, but they still do the same job.

neilly · Mar 9, 2019

I use mine most days, 25 miles each way on Mway.

It does alter maybe between 69 to 71 epending on hills, if read from GPS device. However fuel econ is not as good and it is not the smoothest when transitioning from a downhill to uphill stretch. But certainly not bad.

Cheers

discool · Mar 9, 2019

A D1 V8 auto isn’t affected with hills and just accelerates up them even when the cruise control speed is increased the same as the D2 V8.
When on an A road for an example, when approaching a round about just slowing down by braking, no need for hand control, the CC disengages until on the other side of of the round about, then with touching Resume and it’s off we go with the gearbox dropping a couple of ratios and within a few seconds it’s up to 70 mph or whatever, and it stays there going up a hill, although on motorways if I can go a bit faster I will, just to get past the vehicles that are slowing down and that mobile ‘bottle neck’ they sometimes cause.

I thought it was well known that CC wasn’t suited to low rev engines like the D1 Tdi.

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