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    Cruise control drops off

    Jaz, bad news mate. Cruzin home on Friday nite and the bloody cruise control dropped out. Hit reset and tried again but getting lots of clicking from 'the controller' behind the glovebox so it's back to the garage. Has run sweet for 3 weeks. Will keep you posted. Cheers Brett. Hey mate where...
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    Cruise control drops off

    Jaz, not a problem, will talk to my mechanic and get the part number, will talk next few days. Brett
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    Cruise control drops off

    Snap, have had the same problem for the last month and today it was fixed. I have a 98 ESV8. There is a controller in behind the glove box. My man at the garage tracked the fault to a solenoid in the controller which was randomly cutting out. Replaced the controller and hey presto goes sweet as.
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    Cruise Control

    No Jaz, not fixed yet. Although I have noticed that it tends to work better on cold days, so maybe more cracked pipes or the vacuum diaphragm is stuffed. Will take to garage soon as still under warranty.
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    which octane to run

    mate, use your nut, I recently purchased a 98 Disco 3.9 V8. First thing you do when driving off the dealers yard is fill it up cos the dealers to tight to do it. You use the cheapest which is 91 octane here in NZ. Guess what, for the next week my new baby was 'pinking' like crazy. Next fill was...
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    Cruise Control

    Mate where do we start. I have just purchased the workshop manual for models 1989 thru to 1998 cos I'm having problems with my cruise control. There are several vacuum pipes. 1st pipe off the top end of brake pedal 2nd pipe off clutch 3rd pipe off back of actuator (adjacent to windscreen...