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Help!! All you Vibe owners!! Is it normal for my cruise control to do the following?When you shut the engine off does the green cruise control indicator light on the dash re-light when you restart the engine OR do you have to hit the Cruise "on" swithch again to restart the cruise control sytem?Picture this--Cruising down the highway with cruise set at 70 mph. and you come to a complete stop---and then acclerate to 30 mph --my cruise does not resume when hitting resume.I have to hit the set lever and reset again when I reach my desired speed.Manual is not clear on this-Please help me on this!! Thanks James

I haven't tried on the Vibe yet (hard to use cruise on the I-275), but every other car I've had with cruise requires you to be traveling above 35 MPH before the resume feature will work.

quote:Picture this--Cruising down the highway with cruise set at 70 mph. and you come to a complete stop---and then acclerate to 30 mph --my cruise does not resume when hitting resume.I have to hit the set lever and reset again when I reach my desired speed.Manual is not clear on this-Please help me on this!!I would not recommend utilizing the Resume feature with that much of a MPH difference.. from 30mph to 70mph. The reason it probably didn't work was because there was too much of a gap for the Cruise system to recover. I would say it is safe to assume the cruise would resume if you had a smaller gap to fill, maybe from 50mph to 70mph.The manual states (pgs 2-39 - 2-41) you can utilize Resume as long as you going at least around 25mph. There must be a safety feature not allowing you to resume a speed of 70mph from 30mph.This would be a bad thing especially in bad weather if this feature acted the way it did. The manual warns of tire spin if you use the Cruise inappropriately. I would say optimally the Resume feature would work best if you had to brake minorly from Cruise, then you could Resume back up to your speed as usual.

I wish it would do something like remember the speed but not allow you to resume unless you're going 35-40 or something.. It'd be nice to be able to use it when going thru a tollbooth

quote:I wish it would do something like remember the speed but not allow you to resume unless you're going 35-40 or something.. It'd be nice to be able to use it when going thru a tollboothI don't understand what you mean. If I had the Cruise on and set and I stopped for a toll booth, I could Resume the Cruise with no problems. Granted not from 35 or 40mph, but I usually get it to at least 50-60mph and resume from there with no problems.The Cruise Set Speed should not cancel out unless you turn the Cruise off.

The cruise control memory is lost if the car drops below 30mph or 35 mph. Seen this issue before somewhere, it and was decided it was a possible Toyota way of doing cruise.

quote:When you shut the engine off does the green cruise control indicator light on the dash re-light when you restart the engine OR do you have to hit the Cruise "on" swithch again to restart the cruise control sytem?When you shot off the engine, it disables teh cruse function and erases you last setting. When you restart the engine, the "CRUISE" light will flash (along wit the other idiot lights) to verify that the bulbs works however it goes out and the curuse is off.quote:Picture this--Cruising down the highway with cruise set at 70 mph. and you come to a complete stop---and then acclerate to 30 mph --my cruise does not resume when hitting resume.I've never had that problem however, I was under the assumption you had to be above 35-mph before the cruise (and the resume feature) would work.

My cruise will not allow me to set it or resume below 35 mph. This is normal for most cars I have driven.

Going hand in hand with cruise control...Did you know that the inventor of aircraft "autopilot" died in a plane crash, and when investigated, was concluded to have been having (removed) with the passenger prior to the crash. So next time your using cruise control and doing....stuff....remember to steer.

I set mine to 25mph in a speed trap nearby (bunch of expensive houses with a straight road and not much traffic).It seems strange, but it keeps me from getting a ticket.

quote:I set mine to 25mph in a speed trap nearby (bunch of expensive houses with a straight road and not much traffic).It seems strange, but it keeps me from getting a ticket.Nothing strange about this at all, I do this frequently as well.F1 Drivers use a preset cruise when they are in the pits to keep to the pit speed limit so you are in good company.

quote:--Cruising down the highway with cruise set at 70 mph. and you come to a complete stop---and then acclerate to 30 mph --my cruise does not resume when hitting resume.I have to hit the set lever and reset again when I reach my desired speed.Manual is not clear on this-Please help me on this!! Thanks JamesThere are some conflicting opinions here and I am hoping to get some clarification. If I have my cruise set at 65mph and go through a toll booth (with an attendent) where which I come to a complete stop then try to use resume once I am out of the toll booth at 60mph my cruise control will not resume. Do ppl here think that something is wrong with me car or is this just the way Toyota's / Vibes are?

quote:The cruise control memory is lost if the car drops below 30mph or 35 mph. Seen this issue before somewhere, it and was decided it was a possible Toyota way of doing cruise.With the memory lost, you are unable to resume after coming out of the toll both.

quote:Do ppl here think that something is wrong with me car or is this just the way Toyota's / Vibes are?It is just the way it is with Toyota/Vibe. Read the previous post above this one.Nothing is wrong, mine does the same thing.

Mine does the same thing. It happens in my 99 Tacoma also. Resume is basically useless. I can't understand why it would be set up like this.

I think resume is more for when you have to apply the brake to slow down because someone pulls in front of you or traffic slows. When your speed drops but you don't come to a complete stop. When traffic clears or speeds back up, you hit resume to go bact to last setting. Personally, I never use resume from a dead stop. I will always reset the speed I want.

So, is there anyway to replace this "feature"? ROM upgrade?? Get a third party CC???I really like my Vibe, but if they don't change it before I start looking for a new car, I will NOT be buying a Vibe, or any car that works this way.

I have a aftermarket cruise on my vibe.My indicator light is on when the system is on even after i start the vibe. I dont know what the low speed limit is on mine never tried...I really like my resume b/c it dosent get to the resume speed as fast as it possibly can unlike most factory cruise systems

I used to have a matrix and now have a 2005 Vibe and what happens with the cruise is as following: Once you engage cruise, the light stays on and it is active until you turn the car off. With it on, once you slow below 25 mph, the memory is ERASED and therefore will not resume again till reset above 25 mph. Hope this helps.

Quote, originally posted by MattHelm »So, is there anyway to replace this "feature"? ROM upgrade?? Get a third party CC???Not without replacing the entire cruise system wtih an aftermarket...and what would be the point? Quote »I really like my Vibe, but if they don't change it before I start looking for a new car, I will NOT be buying a Vibe, or any car that works this way.That is the most absurd thing I ever heard!ONE feature doesn't work JUST right, so the whole car is to shame?

Quote, originally posted by ragingfish »Quote »I really like my Vibe, but if they don't change it before I start looking for a new car, I will NOT be buying a Vibe, or any car that works this way.That is the most absurd thing I ever heard!ONE feature doesn't work JUST right, so the whole car is to shame?And it's funny, because if I remember right, MOST cars do this. It's part of a safety feature. You can't resume cruise until you're up past the acceptable point (usually 35), and it clears the memory by default, because it basically shuts off the system. My Probe did this. My mother's Accord did this. As did the Eclipse, the Saab 93... Etc etc. I even drove a Focus for a customer the other day, and that did the same thing.

Ya know, I can almost see MattHelm's point. I mean, the cruise thing wouldn't bother me, but something that doesn't bother me at all might drive another person nuts. Everybody's different.For instance: I won't buy a new car that doesn't have a sunroof / moonroof. The Kia that I have here in Korea doesn't have one, and it bugs the heck out of me, but I didn't have much choice...very few cars here in Korea are offered with sunroofs, and I bought the Kia used, so I have to live without one (but it still bugs me). My truck doesn't have one, but I think it's approriate that a truck not have a sunroof. But a car? I absolutely will not order a new car without one. Some people don't like them, others don't care, but for me, no sunroof is a deal-breaker.

Quote, originally posted by ragingfish »Not without replacing the entire cruise system with an aftermarket...and what would be the point? That is the most absurd thing I ever heard!ONE feature doesn't work JUST right, so the whole car is to shame?The point would be that the CC would then work the way "I" wanted it to work, not someone else!!! Why do they make cars in different colors???????The roads I spend most of my weekly driving on is long, but has a lot of lights. The main reason "I" use a CC for, is I don't have to watch my speed. The way the Vibe (and I guess all Toyota's) work, I have to set my speed every time, instead of just once per trip! Very silly way to make a CC.And yes, I do want a perfect car. The Vibe is close, but this one feature makes one of my required options almost worthless!

I seem to remember reading in the owners manual about if the car goes below 30 km/h, if you use resume, the cruise control won't respond. I believe it is so if you come off the highway and are driving through town and the resume is accidentaly set you won't take off at 100!

I kinda miss that feature as well, but honestly for me I don't miss it too terribly bad in the area I drive the most. Now I can see where you would want such a feature. Down here, most roads aren't as straight as the ones you have to the north and it's such a different terrain, so cruise is mainly useful on the interstates. Now, when I travel north just a few miles, it becomes an entirely different story as the land begins to flatten and the roads become far less twisty... I've missed it when driving between Columbus and Greenwood on 31 when there was not much traffic, for instance. Flat, wide open spaces, straight roads, occasional stoplights, and 55 MPH speed limits.Two out of the four GM cars I've owned would resume after a stop once you reached 25 MPH. The acceleration wasn't swift by any stretch of the imagination - for the most part it's slower than I accelerate and I drive like granny! Never really felt it was dangerous or that I wasn't able to keep control of the car. It was far from hitting the resume switch at 25 and *bam* you're doing 70! But, on the flip side, Toyota's just covering their (removed)... I've got two gripes about the cruise setup on these cars - resume being one, and the way the light itself functions being the other. Annoys me at times, but the added cancel feature makes up for that sometimes. If it's seriously an issue, I'd say go for an aftermarket setup. Not sure what difference there is with the throttle setup for non-cruise vs. cruise Vibes, can't say whether an aftermarket setup would be easy to install... You could always try, I suppose.Good luck to you, and hope you can find a solution that works for you.

Quote, originally posted by MattHelm »And yes, I do want a perfect car.Good luck.

Quote, originally posted by ColonelPanic »I've got two gripes about the cruise setup on these cars - resume being one, and the way the light itself functions being the other. Annoys me at times, but the added cancel feature makes up for that sometimes. Hey, we're lucky. The CC in my 93 Ford Probe didn't even HAVE a light. I had to remember if the cruise was on or not!

True... I've had a couple that didn't as well. Somehow I managed to not wreck the things.