With that said, I am fed up with this cruise control install. The directions are god awful. I have a M/T Base model. I have checked everything that it says to hook up. The VSS wire is probably the culprit, or the clutch (since there are zero instructions regarding this). It says to look at page 4 (oh and the pages are not numbered to boot). But there is nothing on page 4 regarding how to wire in the clutch. I have a black and a yellow wire on my clutch pedal. It says to use the white (ground) and the orange (12V). After that it's a crap shoot. I am really not into cutting and splicing wires on a brand new car, so I am frustrated that I have something wrong. Also, I am guessing the VSS wire is right. It is on the pin that the instructions say (what I am using is coiled around a blue wire, is this right?) Grrrr. Should have just waiting until 2011. The base models now come standard with cruise! Ah!

HELP!

 

Anyone? I have read a million threads and nothing seems to help. When I get this finished I am going to write up a SOLID how to for our 09-10 base models. Need a little kick start from the forum though! Thanks!

 

I am looking at the wiring diagram in the shop manual.

I am no expert at all but would the two wires not go to the clutch pedal position switch? The wires on that switch are BLK Ground and a live PUR(pule).

 

Mine are black and yellow (maybe orange, when I got to that part it was pretty dark). I connect into them and nothing. Cruise control turns on, but something is keeping it from engaging. Anyone out there who can shed some light on the location of the phantom VSS wire? I am spliced into the one coiled with the blue wire. This would make sense because you would not want any interference, so you would expect that it would be twisted and shielded. But at the point, it's all a crap shoot. Better directions would solve all this nonsense.

 

There are no orange. The only yellow wire I can see goes to the Throttle Actuator.

You do have a Clutch Pedal Position Switch? It should have two wires labelled 1 and 2. Two is the Black ground and 1 is a Purple wire. Maybe try looking for the purple one when it is light?

Sorry can't help any more.

 

Right now, I am wondering which gray wire is the VSS. Is it the wire coiled with the blue, or the other one?

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I cannot tell. Sorry.

 

Ahem where is the writeup holmes?