Cruise control - not working

[aust92pearl]

same thing happens with mine mctaff

[haribole]

Hey All

I bought my first SVX this Saturday and just LOVE it!!

It is a 92 with 95K. The previous owner had maintained it really well.

The speedometer is not accurate, I have seen it sometimes not move at all, and at other times, shows much below my actual speed. I drove talking to my wife on the other car and it was showing at least 10MPH lower. The cruise also does not work..

Wonder what could be wrong?

Thanks
Hari

[icingdeath88]

Originally Posted by McTaff

Unrelated issue:

In the dash (under the instrument cluster) the button to hit to enable the cruise control is not 100%...

It's a 'toggle' switch but without a micro... generally, you push it in and it goes ahead and lights up. Now for quite some time I find I have to push it several times because when I push it in, it lights up, but switches off as soon as I let it go.

It's almost as if it's either thinking I've pressed it twice (i.e. it travels too far and registers as two 'pushes') or it is tripping out. Usually a couple of pushes and it stays on.

It's bothersome, but it's not the end of the world. I haven't taken it apart to really look at it, but I figured I'd throw it out there now that Surtees is all good, and see if anyone else has had the same problem and if/how they fixed it.

Mine used to do the same exact thing, but it doesn't anymore. It gradually got better. My guess is that the previous owner never used the cruise control, so the switch got oxidized or something, then with my more frequent use of it, the oxidized part got worn off or something, so it started to behave normally.

Take it apart and see what it looks like.

[SURTEESS]

that's what I said earlier - used deoxite spray to clean & lube the parts. - see post 12