I felt like such an airhead after the cruise control problem
@shaggin (74988)
United States
May 4, 2016 8:35am CST
After I got my van back from the shop the cruise control wouldn't work. I assumed it was due to the injectors being all clogged up. I figured when they took things apart to work on it that they may have disconnected something so the cruise control wouldn't turn on.
So yesterday I got ahold of the guy down the street to look at it for me. I dropped it off and walked home. He called me a few hours later and told me he would bring it up and explain what the problem was.
To the left of steering wheel on the dashboard is the main power button for the cruise control. When they worked on my van they must have bumped it and so it was unpressed which turns the power for the cruise control off.
As long as that button is pressed in then I can use the cruise control button on the steering wheel to set it.
I felt like a huge air head when he showed me this lol. He said he had never seen a button like that before. He figured it out by reading through the manual. He took it for a ride to make sure the cruise control worked and it did.
He did not charge me any money. I am very thankful it was an easy fix!
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@shaggin (74988)
• United States
4 May 16
Oh my gosh wow I can't imagine why your vehicles do not come with a manual book. Maybe they just have them on the dealers website so it can be paperless. Cruise control is a thing that sets and keeps your cars speed at the speed you want it at.
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@thesids (22180)
• Bhubaneswar, India
4 May 16
@shaggin oh, so that is what is called the cruise control. Thanks for clarifying.
Sadly, neither the bike that I own nor the car that my dad owns have any manual either in print or on their websites. All that we get in the name of the manual can roughly be called as a how to drive manual and some very basic things like what is where kind of - how to put in the fuel, where is the gear where is the clutch etc. Nothing anywhere to the handbook where they have the part numbers, the designs or even the inner stuff.
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@shaggin (74988)
• United States
4 May 16
Yes and I am glad that he didn't charge me either. That was very nice of him.
@Dena91 (17029)
• United States
4 May 16
I don't believe any of our cars ever had a button like that. It was either a switch to turn on and off or a button on the steering wheel. Glad it was an easy fix. Don't feel bad about something like that, even the mechanic hadn't seen on like that before. Have a blessed day





