Date:         Mon, 7 Jun 1999 21:07:30 -0700
Reply-To:     Vince So <vso@JPS.NET>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Vince So <vso@JPS.NET>
Subject:      Re: your opinion please - part 2
Comments: To: "Cooper, Jonathan R." <cooper@MBQ.COM>
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If you are in their shoes, you wouldn't. Think about all that liability
because someone claims that the vehicle still going full throttle when he
hit the brake moments before the accident...

My OEM one switches off on either padel.


Vince So
1989 Westfalia GL
1993 Miata
1997 LR Discovery


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM]On Behalf
> Of Cooper, Jonathan R.
> Sent: Monday, June 07, 1999 8:23 AM
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Subject: Re: your opinion please - part 2
>
>
> I have done this, that is tap the clutch with the cruise on (not on
> purpose, I just wasn't thinking) and sure enough the engine began to
> head for the fat red line. I caught it in time though. I wondered who
> would put in a cruise that way. Mine is aftermarket. It probably only
> came with one switch so the shop that installed it made a choice. I wish
> they had picked the other pedal.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stacy Schneider [mailto:Vwcrewman@AOL.COM]
> Sent: Monday, June 07, 1999 2:02 AM
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Subject: Re: your opinion please - part 2
>
>
> Any car with cruise would have a cut out witch on the clutch and brake
> pedal
> .I f it didn't and you stepped on the clutch to change gears the engine
> would
> rev out of control,It is easy to ck your vehicle to see if it has a cut
> off
> switch on the clutch ,just tap the pedal lightly while in cruise and it
> should shut the system off.Then just hit resume and your back under way,
>                   If it dosen't shut off you better find out why.This is
> the
> beauty of having a cruise unit instead of just a throttle lever ,if
> while
> under cruise you find a need to change gears or brake hard it
> automatically
> shuts down without you having to think about it.
>