Rostra/Yaris Custom Cruise kit

[nsmitchell]

Mine works great, although the stalk could feel more solid. I'm sure someone (blacksan) could come up with a slick way to make it feel more structurally sound. I was thinking about using a piece of bent steel with a hole in it that could be glued with "gorilla glue" to the inside of the plastic cover. This would be much better than the simple washer for stability.

[Violin]

Originally Posted by nsmitchell

Mine works great, although the stalk could feel more solid. I'm sure someone (blacksan) could come up with a slick way to make it feel more structurally sound. I was thinking about using a piece of bent steel with a hole in it that could be glued with "gorilla glue" to the inside of the plastic cover. This would be much better than the simple washer for stability.

Good tip. I'll finally get a chance to install mine in the next few weeks.

[Bogartal]

Well, I just finished installing the Rostra cruise control on my '07 Yaris.

Lemmme tell ya, it wasn't much fun. The kit seems nice enough, and the instructions seemed decent (more on that below), but I'm 6' tall, 300 pounds, with big hands and I had a devil of a time installing it in the available space. If I was lucky I could get one hand into the space where I needed to splice wires, install wire ties, run cables, etc. etc. I've worked on it 2-3 hours a day since Saturday (making this my fourth day).

I was maniacally pleased this morning when I got the last wire hooked up (no wire ties yet and all panels still off), turned on the key, turned on the cruise, and the little green led on the cruise went on. Then I made the fatal Murphy taunt mistake I usually make when repairing computers: I cable tied everything and replaced all the panels before going for a test drive.

It doesn't work.


The car starts and runs fine, the green led on the cruise comes on when you press the power button, but the Set/Accel buttons on the cruise control do nothing.

I'm in the process of rechecking all the wires to see if anything got pulled out of a connector and verifying that I've hooked everything up according to the instructions, but that's almost as frustrating as the install itself.

There is one nagging question I have, though, that maybe one of you knows the answer to. When I inserted the loose wires into the connector from the control/switch stalk, the instructions were a bit vague in that they say (step D7), "Assemble the 8-pin connector from the sack parts to the mating wire colors on the Control switch harness." No diagram, no pinouts, marginally parseable English. To make things more complicated, there are eight pins in the connector but only five wires from the control stalk, so there are some holes that must be left open.

Worse, the loose connector from the parts bag that one must insert the pins into has color-coded tape on it that mostly, with one exception, matches the wire colors on the matching connector. The exception is the blue wire. The plastic connector is marked blue where the opposite connector has a beige wire, and where the opposite connector has a blue wire, the wire-it-yourself connector has no color, indicating no connection.

I made a command decision to insert the blue wire where the connector said to rather than where the other blue wire was. I suspect this is my problem. I thought I'd try moving it, but of course those connector pins have little prongs that make it nigh unto impossible to remove a pin once it's been inserted into the connector.

Before I go cave-man on this thing and cut the wire, install a new pin, and try the other hole, I thought I'd try to find out if that really is the problem.

In summary, after a long, sad story you probably have no interest in, can one of you who have installed this kit tell me which pin the blue wire from the control stalk is supposed to connect to??

Thanks in advance!!!