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97 messages, Last post on Apr 21, 2008 at 6:24 AM
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Replying to: xtop (Apr 08, 2008 6:52 am) -mike
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Replying to: paisan (Apr 08, 2008 7:20 pm) Waaaay upstate in New York. We will be at Clark Point, NY which is on the northeast shore of Lake Ontario. It's north and west of Syracuse about 50 miles. My wife is from Watertown which is another 25-30 miles north. We'll be there from 7/17 to around 7/21 or so then back down to I-80 and on back to Colorado. Where are you? Fred |
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Hey all: Our Forester is having a slight problem with the speed/cruise control. If it's been driven for a while it will start shutting the cruise control off somewhere around 80-85 MPH. It seem to do it more when it's a warm day and will do it often in hilly areas where the speed runs past the set speed on the downhill sections. That's if it's speed is set to just under the point where it regularly cuts out. It started doing it a few months ago and I keep forgetting about it because we don't get out and drive like that very often. Has anyone had this problem? I hate to take it to the dealer because it's one of those things that's practically impossible to demonstrate around here. Fred
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Replying to: xtop (Apr 09, 2008 6:58 pm) Forget that, where do you live? I'm moving there! 
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Replying to: xtop (Apr 09, 2008 6:58 pm) I think the cruise control ceases to work over about 85 mph, by design.
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Replying to: aatherton (Apr 10, 2008 1:41 pm) As far as the speed control ceasing to work above 85, that isn't true. I've used it at over 90MPH for just a couple of miles and it always worked fine until recently. The true problem was that, eventually, the maintainable speed would drop to the point where I couldn't keep up the speed limit. It did that on one trip back from Arizona. It got as low as 65-70 before it improved. On one of the other Forester forums they seem to have isolated the cause as a bad neutral safety switch on the manual transmission models. I will be looking into that as it is supposedly easy to diagnose. You just push the gear lever a bit tighter against its limit stop and the cutting out problem goes away if it is the switch. Isn't the internet great? Some of those forum contributors have found that their speed control will work to up around 95MPH. I hadn't gotten to that extreme, personally. Fred
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Replying to: xtop (Apr 11, 2008 2:36 pm) On the cruise it will cutout on subies at 92mph. Same on my nissans. -mike
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Replying to: paisan (Apr 11, 2008 3:26 pm) 92MPH = 150KPH Makes a nice round number so that makes sense. I just want it to maintain at a mere 80MPH. We have lots of 75MPH speed limits out here in the west and the pickup trucks tend to run at 85MPH. However, when we tow the trailer, we run right around 70MPH as the MPG drops fast above that speed. Fred
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Replying to: xtop (Apr 11, 2008 3:36 pm) -mike
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Replying to: paisan (Apr 11, 2008 4:03 pm) Unfortunately the switch has to be replaced from under the car. I may try to replace it down there as we will have some down time once we arrive. We're having another one of our blizzards of 2008 again so we are soooo looking forward to getting down there in the warmth. Fred
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