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I bought my '04 Cavalier in November of '04. It
was a
leftover stripped down model. I told them that I wanted cruise and they
said that they would add it on. About a week later, they had me drop
off the car and they took it to a 3rd party install shop to have the
cruise installed. To make a long story short, it was a cobbled mess and
I had them remove it. When my wife asked about just getting the parts
to install factory cruise, she was told "You can't do that on a
Cavalier with a manual transmission." Whatever . . . . . .
Sounded like a challenge to me.
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The install
was pretty straightforward. I replaced
the turn signal
arm with the one containing the cruise switch. There were just a couple
of screws to remove from the cover that goes around the steering
column. Then you can see the switch unit . There are two screws holding
on the switch, and then you can unplug the wiring harness. When
you install the switch that has the cruise switch , you'll have to plug
in the cruise wiring harness to the back of the switch also.
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The next thing I did was install the
cruise
module under the hood. The bracket bolts onto one of the strut mount
bolts, and another bolt that's at the top of the engine mount. Then you
plug the cruise wiring harness into the cruise module. I ran the
cruise wiring harness. along the top of the firewall, next to the rest
of the wiring.
The throttle cable from the cruise clips into
place on the throttle body. There's already a place for it to snap on.
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There is a cruise control release switch that needs to mounted in the
bracket next to the brake light switch. This is in front of your brake
pedal. If you have a manual transmission, there will be a similar
switch to mount to the bracket in front of the clutch pedal. These are
obviously there to turn the cruise off when you apply the brake or
disengage the clutch. The harness will have connectors that plug into
these switches.
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Basically
all the wires are easy access, there's a big plug that sits under the
clutch reservoir
and has all the wires you need to tap into for the white paired
with the
orange wire (not the pink one). Basically picks
up the brake
light signal. The black w/ white
tracer is ground. It's supposed to ground at the
battery tray..
But any good
ground should be fine.
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If you've made all of your connections properly, you'll now have functional cruise that doesn't look like it was installed at a drive through auto accessory palace.
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This may not
work immediately, but just keep checking the schematics and make sure
that everything is hooked up correctly. (After messing with mine
enough, I found that I also needed twelve volts going to pink wire on
the clutch cruise release switch. You also need to adjust the
release switches carefully.
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