How-To: make your own cruise-control kit

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How-To: make your own cruise-control kit

Post by Gnuserup » Fri Jul 15, 2011 3:59 pm

As the kits are hard to find and the things you can get from several dealers are mostly incomplete, you have to build your own cruise control kit.
You can always get the switches and the servo. Usually missing is the wiring harness, the vacuum-reservoir, the vacuum-harness and the steering-column. Clocksprings are seldom.

Begin with the harness -

you´ll need 6 colours - I take H05V-K 0,5 mm², yellow, (light)blue, (light)green, red, violett, black

yellow for red/yellow [rd/yl]
(light)blue for lightblue/red [lb/rd]
(light)green for lightgreen/red [lg/rd]
red for red/lightgreen [rd/lg]
orange for tyan/red [tn/rd]
black for black [bk]

-about 2,2 m of each colour (1,70 for the blue) and 2,50 m of black will be good - take 3 m of each and everything will be fine.
-one standard ring-cableshoe M6 for both black groundwires
-four PCM-Plug-Cableshoes from the junkyard (pay attention that the cableshoes are different between the
older and the newer Neons (<2002 and >2002 NGC)
-four cableshoes out of a clockspringplug from the junkyard or at least two and two out of the brake switch
-one plug for the servo (you may find that plug at the ABS-harness underneath the ABS-Pump where it connects the rear-sensor-harness or at export-Neons for the lavalier-modules (headlamp-leveling-motors) right and left or <2002 the plug for the leak-detection-pump (non-export)

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Now route the wires like that

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solder the cableshoes and plugs and use some tape to fix your harness.

The original looks like this

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The <2003 steering wheel column has to get a cut on the right and the left for the two switches.

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Use M4x15 mm Philips-tip screws or you get problems as longer screws wont fit.

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Installed switch on the original cutted column.

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Switch laying on the standard column.

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>2003 steering wheel, the column has to get cut anyway.

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The place where the stick is screwed instead of the two switches.

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The common clockspring is missing the two wires for the speed-controll - nethertheless
the spring itself has the paths. You could solder the needed wires on.

left the >2003 clockspring, on the right the <2003 (common in europe)
Pay attention as every plug is different.

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The locking mechanism on the clocksprings if they are delivered with a kit

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Easy to open (Torx T8)

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Clockspring in zero Position

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Lever carefully with a tiny screwdriver

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two hooks - lift them carefully

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here you have to solder two wires for each switch (every switch gets two wires [+ and minus -], they are parallel)

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maximal clockwise

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zero

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maximal turned anti-clockwise

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If you´re not sure about the state of your clockspring - belonging to the service manual you should turn the inner part carefully maximal clockwise and from there about two and a half back (both wirings should be at the bottom then).
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The vacuum-reservoir for the <2002 is installed under the wiperwaterreservoir on the passengerside.

You could ignore that thing for the moment


The vacuum-harness is still missing.
Try to find a fitting tube to connect the servo with the existing vacuumline on your car (search for that cap to have an example which kind of tube may fit)

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Later or if you have a vacuum-reservoir you have to make a T-splice for a vacuum-tube-junction to it.


Appendix:

The clockspring-plugs between < and > 2002 are different. The airbag-plug and switch/ stick-plugs are different.
< 2002 are two switches > 2002 one stick (not interchangeable with PT Cruiser (or you´ll solder different resistors)
The PCM-Cableshoes are different between them.
The vacuum-reservoir is different - <2002 under the wiperwaterreservoir, > 2002 onto the firewall
One version of the wiring harness had been delivered for both, for >02 just including the different cableshoes.


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I do not hold responsible for any mistakes, errors or any damages. If you like to do this, you do it on your own risk. If you are not sure what you are doing, visit a dealer to let the work be done.



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Post by Gnuserup » Sat Jul 30, 2011 3:37 pm

update - more pics - column, clockspring and harness

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aftermarket cruise control add on

Post by cellurl » Wed Nov 12, 2014 11:41 am

Cruise control you might add to slow down visually and at signs.
It works for any vehicle newer than 1990. Resistor values different for Neon.

http://www.wikispeedia.org/wordpress/ni ... e-control/


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