Thread: Woo Hoo!! Cruise Control for Defender installed

Hi Ken,
They are great. had mine for about six months now, no problems with it.

Trev.

It would be a good addition for my beastie as I to do lots of highway travel.

how bout some pics.....


you know....to add icing to the jealousy......

2005 Defender

and your avatar is of a 90?? how can this be??

how dose the cruise go up and down hills? slows down or speeds up?

phil

It does make touring easier

Only operational problem I get is passing a slower car or truck. Givit it right foot to get past, no probs, lift off and it won't resume at the set speed. It'll drop to say 95 kph before cutting in & getting back up to 105. Which means the said car or truck is up your khyber pass again. Quite dangerous the first time it happened, now I allow more room.

Lifting off very slowly also cures it, but it shouldn't be necessary to work around such a simple issue.

But otherwise, very happy.

Regards
Max P

Originally Posted by Tusker

It does make touring easier

Only operational problem I get is passing a slower car or truck. Givit it right foot to get past, no probs, lift off and it won't resume at the set speed. It'll drop to say 95 kph before cutting in & getting back up to 105. Which means the said car or truck is up your khyber pass again. Quite dangerous the first time it happened, now I allow more room.

Lifting off very slowly also cures it, but it shouldn't be necessary to work around such a simple issue.

But otherwise, very happy.

Regards
Max P

My factory cruise in the Commodore does the same thing

I've found someone who did it without buying the kit. You just need 2 switches from a disco apparently. It's on my list to look into. I'll post a photo of the switch and hopefully someone will identify it for me.. but that is another thread

It's good that it all works well though. It might be that the two switches are worth more than 720 anyway

Hey Phil,

Just a quick note. It is a 110 Defender, the avatar photo is on an acute angle where it looks shorter than it is.

As for any problems or complaints, none to speak of. Yes I do have to let off the petal slowly once passing any slow moving vehicle to avoid dropping down to about 5k slower than the set speed. This seems to be common on most typs of cruise control. Also have to pay attention when going down in the City Link Tunnel. There are four speed cameras in the longer one (with a camera at the bottom of the hill), and three in the shorter one. While on cruise, it will accelerate going down hill. Don't know if the cruise just lifts off on acceleration, but momentum takes over? Anyway just need to be careful.

Am still happy!

Ken