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[Amarok]

After my recent purchase of a 1998 CD Estate I went a little mad and bought a cruise control lever and unit off ebaY, this came off a vectra but the seller says it should fit an Omega Can anyone please take a couple of pictures of a 2.0 16V engine with cruise fitted ? so I can have a butchers please ? or has anyone tackled this issue and can give me a couple of tips please ?

[tunnie]

Make sure you have the actuator with throttle cable, a 4 wire cruise stalk and 4 pin brake switch.

Its all fairly straight forward, we have a guide for installing cruise in our maintaince section but thats for facelift omegas only (post 2000)

However that shows you how to remove the stalk.

Someone more experianced in fitting cruise should be along in a mo...

[nixoro]

After my recent purchase of a 1998 CD Estate I went a little mad and bought a cruise control lever and unit off ebaY, this came off a vectra but the seller says it should fit an Omega Can anyone please take a couple of pictures of a 2.0 16V engine with cruise fitted ? so I can have a butchers please ? or has anyone tackled this issue and can give me a couple of tips please ?

Sorry I tried to post some images of the unit  but all it does is I

My vehicle is a 2.0 16V Automatic

Have you uploaded the images to www.photobucket.com or www.imageshack.us

Each image is given an url i.e http://www. something like this if you add this between brackets so it should look like [img] www. [/ img] (extra space added between / & img to make it viewable)

Image should show then.

Unfortunately I havent fitted cruise but others have that maybe able to advise.

[tunnie]

forgot to mention, as nixoro says. Photos need to be hosted externally, currently you can't host photos with us.

As nixoro says, upload your photos to photobucket or imageshack, get the url of the image and then post that inbetween the tag  

[rpont]

Mine is a 2.5v6 but I think the unit should fit in the same place. The cable to the accelerator goes on before the one from the pedal. The car is in bits at the moment but I'll see if I can get a pic of where the cable fits tomorrow if the weather isn't too bad.

It fits just below the expansion bottle onto three studs. I have an additional coolant pump there and have bent the bracket to fit it in as well.

[mijfife]

Hi Amorok,
                I fitted cruise to my 1999 2lt auto and it was very easy to do.
As previously mentioned, the cruise unit fits on the three studs just below the water expansion bottle. There should be a multi plug with a blanking insert clipped to your drivers side strut top. unclip this, remove the blanking insert and plug this into the cruise unit.
The control cable runs from the cruise unit  up to the same point that your accelerator cable is fitted too. If you remove the accelerator cable, the cruise cable goes on first and is secured in place by a small circlip. you'll also see where the outer fits against the bracket where the accelerator cable outer is held.
Moving inside the car, remove the steering column cowling by undoing the screws from underneath. remember to remove the adjustable steering column lever by unscrewing it. This will then give you access to the indicator switch. derpress the two lugs either side and slide the original switch out before unplugging the multi plug. If you have a fish about behind the switch gear, you should find the extra multi plug that plugs into the flying lead on your cruise/indicator stalk. Plug this in and the original plug too and refit the switch.
The final bit is to check if the brake light switch has two or four pins for the wiring. You need 4 for the cruise so if it's only got two, change it by depressing the lugs either side of the brakelight switch and pulling it clear. This can be a bit fiddly to do but it does come out!
That's it    Take the car for a run, and all going well, your cruise should work fine.
It should only take about 30 mins all in and well worth it  

Cheers Jim

[nixoro]

Hi Amorok,
                I fitted cruise to my 1999 2lt auto and it was very easy to do.
As previously mentioned, the cruise unit fits on the three studs just below the water expansion bottle. There should be a multi plug with a blanking insert clipped to your drivers side strut top. unclip this, remove the blanking insert and plug this into the cruise unit.
The control cable runs from the cruise unit  up to the same point that your accelerator cable is fitted too. If you remove the accelerator cable, the cruise cable goes on first and is secured in place by a small circlip. you'll also see where the outer fits against the bracket where the accelerator cable outer is held.
Moving inside the car, remove the steering column cowling by undoing the screws from underneath. remember to remove the adjustable steering column lever by unscrewing it. This will then give you access to the indicator switch. derpress the two lugs either side and slide the original switch out before unplugging the multi plug. If you have a fish about behind the switch gear, you should find the extra multi plug that plugs into the flying lead on your cruise/indicator stalk. Plug this in and the original plug too and refit the switch.
The final bit is to check if the brake light switch has two or four pins for the wiring. You need 4 for the cruise so if it's only got two, change it by depressing the lugs either side of the brakelight switch and pulling it clear. This can be a bit fiddly to do but it does come out!
That's it    Take the car for a run, and all going well, your cruise should work fine.
It should only take about 30 mins all in and well worth it  

Cheers Jim

Any chance a how2 could be created, I have always thought about doing this but wasn't sure how it all connected in.

Would the cruise need to be enabled on the pre facelift or facelift omega to allow it to work.

[Amarok]

I have friday off this week so I will give it a go and take loads of photos.
Thank you everyone for your help so far   these are the bits I got


As you can see I have got the images working as well again thanks

[nixoro]

Good Luck with the install

I look forward to seeing the piccys with interest  

[Marks DTM Calib]

IS it a manual or an auto?

[nixoro]

IS it a manual or an auto?

Well mines a manual not sure what Amarok's is though.

Does it make a difference if manual or an auto :question

[hotel21]

Yup.

If a manual, you also need a clutch pedal switch as well as the brake pedal one, or arrange to jumper the connections out.

[nixoro]

Yup.

If a manual, you also need a clutch pedal switch as well as the brake pedal one, or arrange to jumper the connections out.

Cheers for that, this is one thing I maybe attempting to fit after xmas

There certainly seems alot involved if fitting to a manual.

[TheBoy]

Yup.

If a manual, you also need a clutch pedal switch as well as the brake pedal one, or arrange to jumper the connections out.

Cheers for that, this is one thing I maybe attempting to fit after xmas

There certainly seems alot involved if fitting to a manual.

Only the extra clutch switch, thats the only difference...

[Amarok]

Mines a Auto ,but I got the Clutch Switch with the unit off ebay, you are most welcome to it