After market Cruise control

Post by **Tero Huikko** » 26 Jan 2006 01:46 pm

Hi,

Has anyone installed an after market cruise control on 300?
Recommendations? Experiences?

www.summitracing.com sells Audiovox CCS-100 unit for app. $100 and that's cheap.

Post by **Ronnie** » 26 Jan 2006 10:38 pm

Andy's fitted a WAECO unit bought from eBay (shipped from Germany I think):

http://www.volvo300mania.com/forum-uk/v ... se+control

The seller doesn't have any listed at the moment. After my recent speeding ticket I think I need one of these too...

Post by **Tero Huikko** » 27 Jan 2006 01:35 pm

yep...just got an ultimatum from local police that "once again and you'll walk for the rest of the year"... tried all my usual top-of-the-line explanations but...

Post by **Andy's-Old-Beast** » 27 Jan 2006 07:32 pm

Yep... what Ronnie said!

I found it real useful for regular long-distance trips. It's not perfect; the soloniod doesn't move quite far enough to open the throttle fully so you can lose about 5mph on a really long steep hill, but usually it's just as good as a factory fit in a modern car.

If you have any questions, give us a shout!

Cheers

Post by **5lab** » 27 Jan 2006 09:53 pm

how tricky was it to fit? thinking about doing it to the mondie..

Post by **classicswede** » 27 Jan 2006 10:07 pm

traitor

Come on Hue destroy another 3

Post by **5lab** » 27 Jan 2006 10:25 pm

i've never scrapped a single 300, more than can be said for lots of other forum members

Post by **foggyjames** » 27 Jan 2006 10:43 pm

5lab wrote:i've never scrapped a single 300

Yet...

cheers

James

Post by **Andy's-Old-Beast** » 28 Jan 2006 09:22 am

5lab wrote:how tricky was it to fit? thinking about doing it to the mondie..

Well, if the others will let you...

Yeah, it was dead easy really, for anyone with basic mechanical knowlege. The instructions were fairly helpful, and most of it is common sense, eg. making sure the magnet is close enough to the sensor, etc.

There are of course loads of different makes out there, a session on ebay should throw up a few, but mine (the Waeco one) seems to do the job adequately. I predict that the others would be similar to set up though.

The original thread (ronnie's link above) explains the principal fairly well, for me the most time-consuming aspect was trying to find suitable locations for all the bits, I spent a while looking for a spot on the driveshaft which isn't affected too much by suspension travel when tackling speed bumps. The whole lot took me... I'd guess... about 3 hours of fairly leisurely-paced action. That's with a good selection of tools and a pit for getting amongst the underneath, all of which helped.

Good luck, let me know how you get on...

Cheers