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Originally Posted by philiam
I don't think the car has to be moving to turn the dash switch on. The car must be running. Then get up to speed and press the set, accel button on the steering wheel. Take your foot off the gas and and it will hold the speed. Turn it off by touching the brake. I think I have the names right, since I rarely use it and am doing this from a rather fuzzy memory.
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I never turn the dash switch off. I leave it on. On my daily commute I drive interstate for 15 miles...down the ramp, up to 70 miles per hour and hit the Set button (bottom button on a AP-2), get to the exit ramp, tap the cancel button (between the top and bottom buttons), down shift for the nice ramp and head to work. Opposite in the evening.
I left VA for up-state NY on Friday morning, drove I-95 from VA to NJ, GSP and NJ Tpk to Lake George. (Seven hours worth with the stupid traffic around the Tappan Zee), did a 4.5 hour pre-drive on Saturday for S2KDays, left Lake George on Sunday morning and headed home. Cruise control at 80 miles per hour most of the way on the interstates.
Touching the clutch or brake releases cruise control, the lower button sets the speed, the center button cancels cruise, the upper button is for increasing the set speed (as someone said, one tap on the accel increases the speed by 1 mile per hour...very handy... decel switch decreases the speed by 1 mile per hour per tap as well). I generally set a baseline speed (like on the interstate in this area, I set the cruise control for 70 miles per hour) and then I drive with the traffic flow...if the traffic is faster I accelerate, otherwise, I just let the CC get me to work and home.