oook well i was having problems with my cruise control not ever working (maybe once a month) so i just decided to give this DIY a shot, not even really thinking it would work for some reason...

http://forums.audiworld.com/showpost...79&postcount=3

so i went out and bought a $5.88 30w solder pen at wal mart and i already had a thing of solder so i just heated the circled posts and tossed a tiny tiny dab on top of each one (i have no prior experience with this) and went out for a test drive, and tried my cruise control 3 different times and it worked all three times!!!!

lol best $5.88 i have ever spent

thats my audimod of the day

 

I have only got my cc to work 3 times in the year I have had my car, I haven't found a DIY that has solved the issue yet. That link is dead though.

 

+1 to dead link.

 

http://forums.audiworld.com/showpost...79&postcount=3

 

+500 to new and improved working link lol

 

+1000 to working link.

good find man. if only somebody could figure out why my ABS is being a bisnotch

 

thanks for this find, got to do it when i get some free time

 

Mine would seldom work but after trying again and again the cruise control on I95 from NY to FL it suddenly started working everytime in halfway through Maryland and hasn't stopped since!

 

Yeah, all those problems are usually from old and cracked solder joints. I saw that tech article and tried to use a soldering iron, but I couldn't get the contacts under the coated portion of the board to heat up. So i searched around and saw a couple of guys that had success with mini butane torches. I happened to have a grill lighter that always burned torch-like, so I used that. It wasn't real hot, so I slowly went around the whole board heating all the solder joints(why not get 'em all while you're in there) just until they sizzled a little, and my CC's been working great ever since.

This was after cleaning the stalk switch, which is known to get gunky, and checking the pedal switches and vacuum lines.

 

This is probably what happened to mine.