Omega Owners Forum
Omega Help Area => Omega Electrical and Audio Help => Topic started by: Simon72 on 01 April 2010, 21:56:53
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I hopefully will be fitting Cruise control to my Omega over this weekend and will be having it enabled if needed by a kind man around the corner of me with TECH2.
Now the question I have after looking through the owners manual is....
IS THERE AN INDICATION LIGHT ON THE DASH THAT COMES ON WHEN CRUISE IS ACTIVE??
On a few of my previous cars a light would come on to show you have it working.
Also does it IMPROVE or DECREASE the fuel economy when used on an Omega??
Cheers
Simon
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no light on the dash or mid to say its enabled, you will know anyway cause you pressed the button.
It makes mpg worse, why? When you reach a hill, your foot tends to stay in same place, and your speed will fall 5-10 mph say, cruise will always keep you at the same speed no matter what. Over the course of a long run i would say your better off without it if your after mpg, but i am lazy and use it all the time
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It's not so bad when you go up the hill, but I hate the way it slows down when you descend on the other side!
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no light on the dash or mid to say its enabled, you will know anyway cause you pressed the button.
It makes mpg worse, why? When you reach a hill, your foot tends to stay in same place, and your speed will fall 5-10 mph say, cruise will always keep you at the same speed no matter what. Over the course of a long run i would say your better off without it if your after mpg, but i am lazy and use it all the time
^^ Spot on.
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No light, and worse MPG due to a pretty basic algorhythm used.
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No light, and worse MPG due to a pretty basic algorhythm used.
Problem is, sheer boredom on motorway journeys does tend to make me heavy footed when there's no need. ::) I find cruise does away with that.
In fact, I did a run around the bottom half of the M25 and into Kent earlier in the week (quite a few hills) and experimented with cruise one way and without the other. I found I couldn't match it for MPG. I guess cruise tends to keep you at a constant speed, and you find a route through the traffic that maintains it. Without cruise, I tend not to maintain a very constant speed in traffic, and that hurts consumption.
Using cruise below about 55-60 MPH is a joke, because it causes too many downshifts on an auto, which would have been avoidable with manual throttle.
Kevin
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No light, and worse MPG due to a pretty basic algorhythm used.
Problem is, sheer boredom on motorway journeys does tend to make me heavy footed when there's no need. ::) I find cruise does away with that.
In fact, I did a run around the bottom half of the M25 and into Kent earlier in the week (quite a few hills) and experimented with cruise one way and without the other. I found I couldn't match it for MPG. I guess cruise tends to keep you at a constant speed, and you find a route through the traffic that maintains it. Without cruise, I tend not to maintain a very constant speed in traffic, and that hurts consumption.
Using cruise below about 55-60 MPH is a joke, because it causes too many downshifts on an auto, which would have been avoidable with manual throttle.
Kevin
i agree entirely.
My assumption was based on a human sticking to 70, and cruise sticking to 70 ::)