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Honda Accord Cruise Control
My wife says I'm damaging our car's cruise control by overriding it with the acclerator and then letting it settle back to the set speed. I say its not. We have a 2000 Honda Accord. Can anyone solve this arguement?
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Seriously, you are not damaging anything. In fact, it probably tells you that you can do that in your manual. Use that as proof.
For once, the wifey is wrong (although I wouldn't phrase it like that to her )
That she totally is!
Though technically - what you're doing is exactly the way the system was designed. Warning - you might be damaging your marital relationship, but the car should be fine.
That she totally is!
And just like the good husband that I am, I always get the last word in. Of course that last word in always seems to be "Yes dear".
Doing what you state is better than the constant
Turn-off of the cruise,
Accelerate,
and then the Resetting of the cruise when back to speed.
I would think that "click on, click off, click on, click off, etc, etc, etc" would wear out the cruise control quicker than your technique mentioned in post#1.
Old Proverb says, "Happy wife, Happy Life!"
If you buy a car with "drive by wire" and it doesn't have cruse, you can add it (most of the time) simply by adding the stalk button.
Mrbill
They started with the V6 models only, and I don't know if the 03 had it or not. The I4 came later.
A co-worker has a newer Toyota, with drive by wire, and he added cruise just by installing the cruse button. I don't know for sure if that can be done with all cars or not.
Mrbill