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Old Oct 10, 2018 | 08:11 PM
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I just bought a 2002 dodge dakota 4x4 crew cab
im having issues with the cruise control
sometimes the cruise sign will came on when i press the sterring wheel button but wont stay on or engage at all.
it thru a code 1559 i went, and check all the wires and clear it out now is running and there is no code but still no cruise control any ideas what can it be?
 
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Old Oct 11, 2018 | 09:54 AM
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If the cruise control on light is intermittent it may be the switch or switches. They can wear out. It also could be a clockspring failure. Does the horn always work - even while turning?

 
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Old Oct 11, 2018 | 09:39 PM
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x2 on the switches. the one on mine is wore out and takes multiple taps to engage.

With that said, they are momentary signals on a 2-wire resistor map to make a poor man's mux circuit. a "simple short" will not cause cruise control to phantom on and off. A broken clockspring wouldn't work at all. A shorted clockspring might phantom (or if nothing else, certainly confuse) the module, that I'm not sure of.

Now with THAT said, after I disconnected my buttons and converted them to paddle shifters, I have seen the cruise light phantom on and off a time or two. I have no idea how. Inductive loading is the only thought I can come up with.

A DRB3 is able to scan the speed control section of the module and will give you a slew of error codes - found that through experience when I plugged mine in to tinker with the speedometer and found a bunch of stored module codes because my switches are unhooked to make them into paddle shifters.
 
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