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Tue Mar 27, 2012 8:06 pm

I am thinking about cruise control on my car...Dual carb center pull set up. After driving 1000 miles last week and averaging 30.5 MPG I think cruise would be a nice option.
Where do I look and whom may have it installed?

Wed Mar 28, 2012 9:19 am

J.C. Whitney?

Wed Mar 28, 2012 11:35 am

Wed Mar 28, 2012 12:00 pm

gt1953 wrote: I am thinking about cruise control on my car...Dual carb center pull set up. After driving 1000 miles last week and averaging 30.5 MPG I think cruise would be a nice option.
Where do I look and whom may have it installed?

I can be done. There used to be plenty of aftermarket cruise control kits you could buy that would work. Not so much now.

Check out this thread http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=463042&highlight=cruise+control

Wed Mar 28, 2012 12:07 pm

In 2002 I installed Audiovox cruise control into my Mazda truck, was $100 from AutoZone. Yes, that unit does use engine vacuum and has a cannister that has a cable coming from it that attaches to the throttle. Its electronics are pretty basic, mine takes its feed from the negative side of coil/tachometer feed side; also the typical positive, negative wires, and illumination. I like it.

Would this work on a VW? I have no idea !!

Wed Mar 28, 2012 12:36 pm

Most of them use magnets strapped to the driveshaft or a pulse from the electrical speedo to get a speed reference. There is a way to do it with double jointed axles though, you can hang the magnets and sensor off of one of them. There may also be a kit out there that uses the mechanical speedo cable, but I've not seen one.

In this case an auxiliary hand throttle cable may work just as well and be much simpler.

Wed Mar 28, 2012 2:23 pm

Cusser wrote: In 2002 I installed Audiovox cruise control into my Mazda truck, was $100 from AutoZone. Yes, that unit does use engine vacuum and has a cannister that has a cable coming from it that attaches to the throttle. Its electronics are pretty basic, mine takes its feed from the negative side of coil/tachometer feed side; also the typical positive, negative wires, and illumination. I like it.

Would this work on a VW? I have no idea !!

Similar to this?

I picked this up at a car show/ swap meet for a buck...but it was missing parts like the road speed pick up coil, main wire harness, and magnet sensor for spark plug current. Everything else is new in the box. The manual is copyright 1983, has 'for VW' written all over the box, but could have been for Rabbits or whatever.

Wed Mar 28, 2012 4:29 pm

I once had a beetle come into the shop, the customer said it belonged to his son who used it as a work car which required him to be on the road a lot.

It was chocked full of eighties JC Whitney relics... One being a cruise control set up, it also had a fuel tank that looked similar to stock but it had a much larger capacity.... Wink mirror, cb radio.... Etc, etc... Pretty much the whole catalog thrown at it.