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Mk1 cruise control (aftermarket, Conrad Anderson)

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Mk1 cruise control (aftermarket, Conrad Anderson)

Postby 08SWB-connectOwner » Sun Aug 04, 2024 12:35 pm

Hi.

I just scored a control module and stalk for a 1.8tcdi cruise control, made by Conrad Anderson.
It's from a wrecker. Sadly, they're unwilling to look for the other components for me and they're selling only what can be found from their webstore.
Conrad Anderson on the other hand is not responding to my emails.

So what I've found are the control module and the switch stalk.
Besides wiring, I don't know what other components I might be missing.

Does anyone have an installation instruction booklet or a wiring diagram?
Has anyone installed one of these to their van?
Does anybody have one of these installed to their van?
Anybody willing to help me piece this kit together?


Please help, if you can. It would be much appreciated! :)

This is the kit in question:
https://www.conrad-anderson.co.uk/produ ... ntrol-Kit/

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Re: Mk1 cruise control (aftermarket, Conrad Anderson)

Postby dumper » Sun Aug 04, 2024 8:47 pm

I had one on my mk6 had it fitted by Conrad Anderson in 2009 and it had a motor under the bonnet and a cable down to the throttle pedal and worked by pulling the pedal down to the speed you set it at .
The control stalk had 3 settings buttons on it that you could set I had mine at 30 .40.&50 mph and you twisted it to adjust the speed up and down if you wanted to override it I liked it but sometimes you had to tap the pedal as it could be slow to increase speed going up hills.
And if you didn’t have a switch on the clutch pedal it had to have one fitted
Not long after I got mine they changed the system and it worked by flyby wire and did away with the motor set up
Your photo looks like it was a lot earlier then mine you even had a choice of the control being on the gear lever
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Re: Mk1 cruise control (aftermarket, Conrad Anderson)

Postby 08SWB-connectOwner » Tue Aug 06, 2024 5:01 pm

By the connector it seems the unit is actually a Liteon AP800, which is fly-by-wire capable.
By my research, it should work by getting a speed input from the gearbox VSS.
Luckily my car has a clutch pedal sensor, so I can definitely utilise that.

This unit connects to the VSS, clutch switch, brake switch and in between the fly-by-wire throttle pedal and the ECU.

Pretty much the only thing I'm missing, it seems, is the wiring loom. There is a seperate memory unit for this model, that is used to store desired speed presets, but my stalk is the basic model, so there's no memory functionality needed.

Thus, I only need to figure out the correct wiring anymore.
The unit is still in the mail and there was a double sided tape over the model number, so that's why I'm not completely sure about the model. Yet.
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Re: Mk1 cruise control (aftermarket, Conrad Anderson)

Postby 08SWB-connectOwner » Sat Aug 17, 2024 8:37 pm

Confirmation: it is indeed an AP800 model.
So all I need is the wiring loom, which I could recreate, but I have not found any information on where each wire terminates on the connector that connects to the control unit. I also have no idea how to connect the stalk wiring.
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