My Cruise Control dont work...... today i tried turning it on for the long straights on the freeway and it did not set.....It turned on to the cruise control lights.... but nothing???????
well the car just came back from transmission work....right after i installed the revi intake??? it had nothing to do with the VFAD right???

well i dont know i juss thought id ask if anyone has the same problem.....

 

Did you ON it and then SET?

 

yea i did......at freeway speeds it doesnt work after playing with it for 10min...Ive used it before so i know it used to work...then at street speeds it works....but back on the freeway it doesnt?? dont know how that got to happen

 

uh how fast were you going ?

 

Take it back to the people who did the tranny work. They may not have reconnected a sensor.

 

neither does public schooling.

 

Im having this problem as well... I use cruise control everyday and just two days ago it stopped working... the cruise control light is on but i cant seem to set it...

 

it ended up being the switches on the steering wheel i decided to take it in and they replaced them...no cost .

 

Im having this same problem after having my tranny replaced. Ive taken it back to aamco who did the tranny and they said they didnt do anything....

I talked to a mechanic friend of mine and he suggested maybe there was a speed sensor cable they didnt hook back up right when putting the tranny in. Anyone know about this?

 

I am having the same problem with my cruise control. It turns on, but will not engage. From what I have read on here, it sounds like it may be the switch itself. I guess it is time to head to the stealer...

 

my main cruise control light wont turn on at all has anybody had that happen

 

This.

 

Same here, I just bought my rx8 and the cruise control doesn't work at all. press the ON button and nothing at all

 

Probably a problem with the button since the cruise control itself is controlled by the ECU.

 

Thanks, I'll get it checked out

 

If it's a manual transmission It will be the clutch position switch on the clutch pedal or the neutral switch on the transmission.
Either one of them will prevent the cruise control from working.

 

Yeah good thinking, I forgot about the switch on the clutch.

 

Oh yeah, imma check those switches. Thanks a lot

 

Also check the reverse switch while your down there checking the neutral switch on the tranny as well. I'm sure that has something to do with the cruise control too.

My problem was the clutch position switch. The previous owner bypassed it with a bare piece of copper wire and took it to ground which did cure the problem temporarily but it failed two years later after I bought the car.

Dumb thing about it was that the car was a leased vehicle.

 

OK will do and wow, he really did that on a leased car? I'd just let mazda fix it since it's least but the thing I don't get is why he bypass the switch? Bc wouldn't that not let it turn on or off?

 

the clutch has to be depressed in order to start the car, so my guess is that the switch was broken and he didnt have time to take it to the dealer. jerry rigged to let it start.