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Originally Posted by nscaler
Took the jumpers out and reconnected the Cruise Control. Everything works fine.
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My 451 cruise control hasn't worked from day 1. But then I am a naughty boy because I got one sent to me from Canada and the maker (who didn't want to sell it outside of your shores) is a bit miffed that one got away, like it's too much work to check out a non US/Canadian car. I still don't understand what can be different about a European/UK car....
Like your story about the jumpers though, when they do actually come up with a plan to fix/reprogram my cruise control I shall be doing the same as you.
I had great fun with a mobile radio years ago. It wasn't in a smart because they hadn't designed it yet, and the radio was actually a CB radio on AM, same as you guys have (UK use only FM); mine was a Cobra 148 which had 360 channels instead of the the legal 40, and on the lowest band, as I went into a garage for petrol, I discovered a high pitched noise coming out of my set speaker. I got out, removed the outside antenna (to dumb the signal) and turned the channel knob until HEY here was this massive signal. It was from the computer in the forecourt office. I had heard about this. I had a linear amplifier of 100w on board, and after putting the antenna back on, I began filling my car whilst idly hiding the microphone in my other hand, I had pulled it through the half shut door and it was down out of sight.
As I was nearly full I squeezed the mic for a brief second, so I was sending a quick 100w burst of AM. Nothing blew up. But every pump in the garage suddenly turned off, all the lights went out on the displays. The office girl was looking at the computer and it was completely dead. She ran to get the manager and the two were standing looking around in horror.
Everybody wandered inside to ask what was going on. They restarted the computer and it had no record of the dozen or so fillups that were happening when it went off. They had no idea how much everybody had put in their tanks and we were all asked to offer where we thought we were when it had happened. That was a cheap fill-up. All of a sudden a little while later these notices started appearing in all the fuel stations saying things like danger from transmissions, but the real danger was to the loss of their profits.
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