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Thread: OEM cruise into a 300TDI disco

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    Quote Originally Posted by johnd View Post
    all comments for TDI auto disco 1995-1998 (I'm not sure about others)

    1. vacuum pump - lives under the tray that houses your jack etc on lhs front just behind headlight. Bolt holes provided in the tray but you'll need three 6mm bolts and nuts. The wiring plug comes off the loom that also goes to your power steering sensor (low down below the radiator near where the lower hose goes in). This shares the part number with the V8s so should be easy for you to source. Vacuum hose goes from the pump (via a t-piece to the brake switch) to the actuator.
    2. actuator (or bellows) lives up on the rhs inner guard apron near your fuse box. Unit bolts up to pre-existing nuts on the apron. I understand that this is also identical to the V8s (but they have it in a different place). A short cable leaves here to go to your accelerator pedal (or injector pump if you prefer - this is the fiddle). I think the short cable is TDI only and was on UK cars only (??) and so you might have to fit up a TDI accelerator cable to the injector pump to do the job.
    3. steering wheel switch air bag model - you'll need to provide a slot in the soft rubber steering wheel boss to pass the switch through. make sure you buy a switch with the plug attached as it then plugs directly into the housing under your horn/airbag. Non air bag models you'll need a new steering wheel with the buttons on it (off a V8 is ok)
    4. dash switch is the same for all models and the wiring plug is there but (on mine) extremely hard to find as its taped way back up behind your heater controls and your neighbours children will learn some new words as you try to reach it. Once you have it its a straight plug in.
    5. brake vent switch - same as on V8s and clips directly into the pedal box frame and the connecting electrical plug is sitting there just waiting for you (tiny plug with two pink wires). Picks up the vacuum line from the Tpiece from the vacuum pump.
    6. cruise relay- lives behind the kick panel on the drivers side below the dash and was already there on mine - maybe they all come with it fitted? but should be just a simple relay if you have to buy it.
    7. cruise computer - apparently is the same as V8s and lives behind your glove box. Take the glove box lid off (easy) and you'll find the plug waiting there for you and the space on the electrical scaffold to bolt it (easy)

    speed pick up is electronic via your gearbox speed sensor and you don't need to do anything here (at least I didn't) - its already wired in.

    sorry to be so long winded but i hope all this helps

    johnd
    I am trying to find the cruise control switch behind the heater controls and are having no luck. I have been at it for a few weeks and am driving a car with a dashboard in pieces.

    Any clues would be very much appreciated.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Kubcat View Post
    I am trying to find the cruise control switch behind the heater controls and are having no luck. I have been at it for a few weeks and am driving a car with a dashboard in pieces.

    Any clues would be very much appreciated.
    Someone mentioned you need the hands of a six year old to find it and I think they were right.

    It was there in the end.

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