Cruise Control Question

[Simon72]

I hopefully will be fitting Cruise control to my Omega over this weekend and will be having it enabled if needed by a kind man around the corner of me with TECH2.

Now the question I have after looking through the owners manual is....

IS THERE AN INDICATION LIGHT ON THE DASH THAT COMES ON WHEN CRUISE IS ACTIVE??

On a few of my previous cars a light would come on to show you have it working.

Also does it IMPROVE or DECREASE the fuel economy when used on an Omega??

Cheers

Simon

[tunnie]

no light on the dash or mid to say its enabled, you will know anyway cause you pressed the button.

It makes mpg worse, why? When you reach a hill, your foot tends to stay in same place, and your speed will fall 5-10 mph say, cruise will always keep you at the same speed no matter what. Over the course of a long run i would say your better off without it if your after mpg, but i am lazy and use it all the time

[jonny2112]

It's not so bad when you go up the hill, but I hate the way it slows down when you descend on the other side!

[Broomies Mate]

no light on the dash or mid to say its enabled, you will know anyway cause you pressed the button.

It makes mpg worse, why? When you reach a hill, your foot tends to stay in same place, and your speed will fall 5-10 mph say, cruise will always keep you at the same speed no matter what. Over the course of a long run i would say your better off without it if your after mpg, but i am lazy and use it all the time

^^ Spot on.

[TheBoy]

No light, and worse MPG due to a pretty basic algorhythm used.

[Kevin Wood]

No light, and worse MPG due to a pretty basic algorhythm used.

Problem is, sheer boredom on motorway journeys does tend to make me heavy footed when there's no need. I find cruise does away with that.

In fact, I did a run around the bottom half of the M25 and into Kent earlier in the week (quite a few hills) and experimented with cruise one way and without the other. I found I couldn't match it for MPG. I guess cruise tends to keep you at a constant speed, and you find a route through the traffic that maintains it. Without cruise, I tend not to maintain a very constant speed in traffic, and that hurts consumption.

Using cruise below about 55-60 MPH is a joke, because it causes too many downshifts on an auto, which would have been avoidable with manual throttle.

Kevin

[TheBoy]

No light, and worse MPG due to a pretty basic algorhythm used.

Problem is, sheer boredom on motorway journeys does tend to make me heavy footed when there's no need. I find cruise does away with that.

In fact, I did a run around the bottom half of the M25 and into Kent earlier in the week (quite a few hills) and experimented with cruise one way and without the other. I found I couldn't match it for MPG. I guess cruise tends to keep you at a constant speed, and you find a route through the traffic that maintains it. Without cruise, I tend not to maintain a very constant speed in traffic, and that hurts consumption.

Using cruise below about 55-60 MPH is a joke, because it causes too many downshifts on an auto, which would have been avoidable with manual throttle.

Kevin

i agree entirely.

My assumption was based on a human sticking to 70, and cruise sticking to 70