[s-cars] Cruise Control inoperable

Thu Apr 29 11:08:36 PDT 2010

You can't remove the top cover without removing the selector switch first.  Under the selector switch is a small spring and a single roller bearing that may pop out.  If you're careful, it won't explode on you.  Keep your finger on the selector switch while prying so it doesn't fly off.  Then, there are two grooves that  separate the front and rear covers from the center section of the stalk that hold the switch guts.  You pry in those grooves.  Get it started somewhere and move you way around carefully.  It will become obvious what is separating.

Regards,

Steven Young, CEM, CEA
Project Developer - Connecticut / New York / Vermont District
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-----Original Message-----
From: s-car-list-bounces at audifans.com [mailto:s-car-list-bounces at audifans.com] On Behalf Of Jerry Scott
Sent: Thursday, April 29, 2010 1:57 PM
To: JC
Cc: s-car list
Subject: Re: [s-cars] Cruise Control inoperable

Thanks JC and Steve.  Can you just remove the top cover and not the
slider?Are there any springs or parts that pop out if you remove the top
cover only?  Where do you pry to open this cover?  I assume the outboard
end.

Jerry
----- Original Message -----
From: "JC" <jc at j2c3.com>
To: "'Jerry Scott'" <jerryscott at wispertel.net>
Cc: "'s-car list'" <s-car-list at audifans.com>
Sent: Thursday, April 29, 2010 10:53 AM
Subject: RE: [s-cars] Cruise Control inoperable

> Just answered this offlist... first the slidey switch pops off, with an
> easy
> to lose tiny spring and roller bearing system behind it.  If cleaning the
> switch is your probablem that might very well be enough access.
>
> But you can also pop open the trim at the top with the high/low beam icon
> on
> it which lets you really get inside the whole switch.  Caveat, given the
> nature of aged plastic, you could have classic plastic-tab-breakage
> syndrome
> I suppose, but mine have always popped apart and back together smoothly.
> Given the whole new assembly with new everything is $132, I think nowadays
> I
> wouldn't spend too much time re-working one, if a quick cleaner spray and
> workout (SOP - scrub the switch back and forth 20-30 times while it's wet)
> through the slider switch didn't work, AND I was sure it was a bad switch
> still, I'd probably just spring for the new one at this point.
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Jerry Scott [mailto:jerryscott at wispertel.net]
>> Sent: Thursday, April 29, 2010 12:33 PM
>> To: JC
>> Cc: s-car list
>> Subject: Re: [s-cars] Cruise Control inoperable
>>
>> So how do you open the end of the stalk without removing it
>> from the column?
>> Jerry
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "JC" <jc at j2c3.com>
>> To: "'Young, Steve'" <sryoung at trane.com>; "'chris chambers'"
>> <fastscirocco_2000 at yahoo.com>; "'Jim Fleischer'"
>> <jim at almgt.com>; <s-car-list at audifans.com>
>> Sent: Wednesday, April 28, 2010 4:16 PM
>> Subject: Re: [s-cars] Cruise Control inoperable
>>
>>
>> > Perhaps true Steve although I do a lot of work with contact cleaner
>> > and it is designed to "creep & seep" around corners.  Personally I
>> > agree with you I'd take it apart, but the switch is disassmbleable
>> > without pulling the bag, wheel or contact ring. The way the
>> shell pops
>> > apart you can really get the end fully opened up right there in the
>> > car without having to remove the entire stalk. Just have to
>> be careful
>> > not to lose that micro spring and other parts as you do it.
>>  I've even
>> > re-wired a stalk without pulling the wheel (although yes
>> not real fun
>> > task). You mentioned B5 platforms, that definitely might be
>> different
>> > than the old stuff but on the old stuff switch cleaning doesn't
>> > require too much work.
>> >
>> >> -----Original Message-----
>> >> From: s-car-list-bounces at audifans.com
>> >> [mailto:s-car-list-bounces at audifans.com] On Behalf Of Young, Steve
>> >> Sent: Wednesday, April 28, 2010 5:48 PM
>> >> To: chris chambers; Jim Fleischer; s-car-list at audifans.com
>> >> Subject: Re: [s-cars] Cruise Control inoperable
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> Based upon having dismantled the switch and seeing it's
>> construction,
>> >> spraying cleaner on it will get virtually none to the actual
>> >> contacts.  I think people who have had this work have just been
>> >> lucky.
>> >>
>> >> Regards,
>> >>
>> >> Steven Young, CEM, CEA
>> >> Project Developer - Connecticut / New York / Vermont District
>> >> ____________________________________TRANE
>> >> Commercial Systems and Services
>> >> Ingersoll Rand
>> >> 301 Old Niskayuna Rd., Suite 1, Latham, NY  12110
>> >> *Tel: 518.724.1453
>> >> *Fax: 518.785.4359
>> >> *Cell: 518.378.8848
>> >> *Email: sryoung at trane.com
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>> >> -----Original Message-----
>> >> From: s-car-list-bounces at audifans.com
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>> chris chambers
>> >> Sent: Wednesday, April 28, 2010 5:29 PM
>> >> To: Jim Fleischer; s-car-list at audifans.com
>> >> Subject: Re: [s-cars] Cruise Control inoperable
>> >>
>> >> A common problem is dirty contacts in the control switch.
>> >> I've read the fix is to spray electrical contact cleaner into the
>> >> switch and "work" the switches.
>> >>
>> >> HTH
>> >> Chris
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> ----- Original Message ----
>> >> > From: Jim Fleischer <jim at almgt.com>
>> >> > To: s-car-list at audifans.com
>> >> > Sent: Wed, April 28, 2010 4:11:46 PM
>> >> > Subject: [s-cars] Cruise Control inoperable
>> >> >
>> >> > Hey all,
>> >>
>> >> Getting ready for an extended trip across the country and just
>> >> > tried my cruise control......no worky.....maybe a simple
>> >> fuse?  Don't
>> >> > have the owner's manual handy, so anyone direct me there
>> first, and
>> >> > let me know of other known causes?
>> >>
>> >> Thanks!
>> >>
>> >> Jim Fleischer
>> >> '95 urS6
>> >> '83 ur
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>> >> > forgotten)
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