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[ayresyy]

Just fitted cruise control today, I know there will be haters! I know it's not really the VX way, but I suffer with sciatica and holding the accelerator at a constant for more than a few mins on motorways and longer journeys gets uncomfortable for me. So total cost for the job was £15 (for a new stalk), plus several hours of the usual stripping of skin, loosing of knuckles, swearing, blaming the missis for the cable being stuck in the sill etc.

[h8ten]

I've often thought about this for when I have to use the 220 on the motorway.  I know for the Zafira it is just the stalk, a clutch switch and tell the ECU that it now has cruise control.  What did you do?

[ayresyy]

I've often thought about this for when I have to use the 220 on the motorway.  I know for the Zafira it is just the stalk, a clutch switch and tell the ECU that it now has cruise control.  What did you do?

Bascaly that! Fit the new stalk, wire in a +12v ACC supply from the switch, then run 3 core cable from the stalk to the ECU ( I added 3 pins to the ecu plug). Then I just added cruise in the variant configuration using op-com. Not really too bad to do once you have the cable through

[Duncan VXR]

Great addition for £15 what's not to like 👍 DG

[nicollow]

Id bloody love cruise.... Can this be done on the 2.2?

[ayresyy]

Not sure if it's quite as simple to do on the 2.2 unfortunately. I think there is an issue programming the ecu, someone else on here will know I'm sure.

[Notalotus]

There was a thread on this subject some years back, but there was no final conclusion as to which were the connections to make. I also wasn't sure which plug on the ecu was A and which was B. I have the stalk already fitted and some multi core signal cable to run to the ecu. Can you post details of what you connected where?

[GiGo]

Nice job, would be good to have a write of how it's done. 

[siztenboots]

Did you have to wire in through clutch switch?

[ayresyy]

On the turbo it was pins 9,41 and 58. You just need to add 3 pins to connector X31 (the plug on the right of the ECU if you could look straight at it). So you just need to run the 3 core cable from the stalk buttons (these are labelled up A,B,C and D) to these pins as follows:

 

Stalk A - ECU A58

Stalk B - 12v Feed (I used the 12v feed on the same stalk with a small 3.5A fuse in line)

Stalk C - ECU A41

Stalk D - ECU A9

 

  Then it just needs activation and you should be good to go.

[ayresyy]

Did you have to wire in through clutch switch?

 

  Clutch switch on the turbo is already wired in so nothing to do there luckily. I guess the switch would need adding for the N/A?

Edited by ayresyy, 31 May 2016 - 07:15 AM.

[siztenboots]

I thought the clutch switch cut the feed to the stalk?

[Pidgeon]

This has been a desirable for years.  Last time I recall looking, the collective opinion was that it was not possible.  Well done that man

 

Can you now turn your hand to the other two desirables, AC and more luggage space?

 

From my experience of other CCs, Steve, the absence of a clutch switch merely means the CC does not disengage when the clutch is depressed?

[siztenboots]

Looking at the wiring diagram, that is how it seems. Different positions of cc switch have different resistance on that wire to ecu.

[ayresyy]

I thought the clutch switch cut the feed to the stalk?

 

  The clutch switch just feeds directly into the ECU as far as I can tell, so I believe it operates separately to the cruise signal. Dropping the clutch does still cancel the cruise as normal though.

 

  From what I have seen the stalk only sends a short activation, resume or cancel 12v+ signal into one of the 3 ECU pins while you press the buttons, it's not latching. I connected op-com and selected Astra instead of VX220, if you do this you can see and test the 3 cruise switch functions in the ECU.

[Notalotus]

Ah, the right hand plug. On mine it has a security block that prevents the locking lever from being opened. That's where my attempts halted. Now knowing that is the correct plug I'll remove it. Could you do the ecu turn on bit for me, I'm near Huntingdon, only a short blast from you?

[siztenboots]

yep, drill out the security bolt to free the right hand plug

[coople]

Who has op com that can do this as a service? Seems like a top simple mod. Was it just a zafira cruise control switch that you got?

[ayresyy]

Ah, the right hand plug. On mine it has a security block that prevents the locking lever from being opened. That's where my attempts halted. Now knowing that is the correct plug I'll remove it. Could you do the ecu turn on bit for me, I'm near Huntingdon, only a short blast from you?

I can program it for you once you are ready yes. I'm in Turves so maybe a more interesting drive for you and still not far. Just send me a PM.

[ayresyy]

For anyone that's interested, this stalk fits perfectly. https://www.ebay.co....tm/170891512695 Now less than £13 delivered.

Edited by ayresyy, 31 May 2016 - 08:18 PM.