Cruise Control Activation (unwanted)

brew1 · **Posted:** Thu May 21, 2009 2:46 pm

Was driving to work today with the cruise set at 75mph, everything working fine, disengaged it when I caught up to rush hour traffic. %#@&@ cruise control re-engaged by itself and wouldn't respond to the off button or the cancel button on the steering wheel. It did turn off when I applied the brakes hard enough, only to re-engage again when I depressed the accelerator pedal.

I managed to exit the highway and shut it down on a side street. After several shut down cycles the cruise no longer was engaging by itself. I haven't had the nerve to retry the cruise since then.

The search function displayed many posts of cruise controls not engaging, however I couldn't find any cases of unwanted engaging.

Anyone have a similar experience? Or am I the only one with a posessed CRD?

From what I gathered from previous posts, I can't simply pull a fuse to disable the cruise control function and will need to have the stealership pull the codes to determine the problem and only they would have the ability to turn off the cruise function via reprogramming?

litton · **Posted:** Thu May 21, 2009 3:58 pm

It sounds like two course of action should be taken. The obvious would be a trip to the dealer. Second would be a filing with NTSB as this sounds like a real safety concern.

JL Rockies · **Posted:** Thu May 21, 2009 4:53 pm

Back in the early 90's, the exact same thing happened to someone I know but it was a new Lincoln Towncar. She had it towed to the dealer and while she was waiting, the GM walked up to her and said, "lets just get you a new car". She drove home with a new car with the same lease attached to it.

linewarbr · **Posted:** Thu May 21, 2009 5:28 pm

JL Rockies wrote:

Back in the early 90's, the exact same thing happened to someone I know but it was a new Lincoln Towncar. She had it towed to the dealer and while she was waiting, the GM walked up to her and said, "lets just get you a new car". She drove home with a new car with the same lease attached to it.

Maybe now, if you went to a closing Chrysler dealer, they would do that with a CRD Grand Cherokee?

tjkj2002 · **Posted:** Thu May 21, 2009 5:29 pm

Sounds like a bad electronic throttle control,those should be banned but are are mandatory now for ESP so you can not override or control the throttle yourself.

brew1 · **Posted:** Thu May 21, 2009 6:18 pm

Dropped it at the stealership, we'll see what they find. If I get lucky, the problem may be covered under the remaining Chrysler 7/70 warranty.

A Liberty CRD as an even trade for a Grand Cherokee with a Merc CRD, love to but not likely. We just bought a used 08 Grand Cherokee Overland with the Merc CRD, those puppies are nowhere close to being in the same price category as a Liberty CRD. Driving the two vehicles is the difference between night and day.

The Merc CRD doesn't even sound like a diesel.

JL Rockies · **Posted:** Thu May 21, 2009 7:53 pm

What's the fun in that then?

ChileanKJ · **Posted:** Fri May 22, 2009 12:49 pm

JL Rockies wrote:

What's the fun in that then?

215 HP and 376 Lb/Ft

Cruise Control Activation (unwanted)

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