Coupe GT Cruise Control

[Andrew Butitta]

Thanks for the pictures, Huw. That helps a lot.

It's doubly frustrating because the person I bought
this from advertised it as having cruise control "that
just broke (shrug)" ...

The worst part is that I believed him, mostly because
it was late, raining, 4 hours from home and at the
Audi dealership where he worked as a technician.

The owner before him had been an Audi service guy,
too, running an independant Audi shop.

It seems like both owners just wanted to get rid of
this car, and I'm stuck footing the bill for what they
neglected.

I'm being quoted $500 for a new exhaust system that
the PO said was just a bad muffler. Plus the
doorhandles are going, the brakes are bad and the
e-brake is on its way out.

Sorry, I'll stop ranting now. It's all my fault for
trying to spend too little for a nice car and not
checking things more thoroughly beforehand.

Thanks a bunch for your help, guys, and for tolerating
the newb.

I'm sure you'll hear from me again.

-Andrew Butitta

--- Huw Powell <audi at humanspeakers.com> wrote:

> > Okay, I picked up my '87 Coupe GT about three
> months ago and have
> > been very slowly fixing things as time (and money)
> permitted.
> > 
> > I went out the other day to have a look at my
> cruise control pedal
> > switches, since the CC doesn't work.
> 
> > Well, I'm missing my clutch pedal switch! I
> thought that was curious,
> > so I looked more closely under the hood, and I
> can't seem to find
> > anything that resembles a cruise control system. I
> also can't find
> > any pictures of what the two-part (pump and
> actuator) Audi CC system
> > looks like.
> 
> >
>
http://www.dragoth.net/~dragoth/projects/audi/cruisecontrol/2005-09-26_engine-compartment-full.jpg
> 
> Well, as pointed out, there are no signs of any
> cruise parts under your 
> hood.
> 
> > That's frustrating... but also, where does the
> actuator go? The
> > vaccuum pump sits over there, where you described,
> and a vaccuum line
> > travels over to the actuator.. which would be
> where?
> 
> The first two pictures here show it pretty well:
> 
> http://www.humanspeakers.com/audi/engine.htm
> 
> You are at least missing the pump, which would be on
> that bracket by the 
> laster cylinder, the hose to the servo, the servo
> and its bracket, and 
> the rod to the throttle actuator.
> 
> You also might be missing the wiring harness, the
> hoses to the pedal 
> switches, and the control box.
> 
> Perhaps your car never had cruise and someone at
> some point swapped in a 
> another set of stalk switches to replace bad ones?
> 
> It's a bit of work, but you could get a system from
> a dead car and 
> install it.  The block diagram here:
> 
> http://www.humanspeakers.com/audi/cruise-diagram.htm
> 
> Shows pretty much everything. just not exactly where
> it goes.  The 
> Bentley has better location pictures, I think.
> 
> -- 
> Huw Powell
> 
> http://www.humanspeakers.com/audi
> 
> http://www.humanthoughts.org/
>