Cruise Control Retrofit

[Faheem]

Thanks all for the kind comments.

I've written up a guide which I've attached to the first post in this thread, hope that it helps someone.

 

[hard top]

I've written up a guide which I've attached to the first post in this thread, hope that it helps someone.

Hey @GazHyde, this needs adding to the BMW Z3 Wiki as the one on there is for fly by wire.
https://zroadster.org/articles/bmw-z3-m54-cruise-control-retrofit.25/

 

[Stuart Sutton]

Hi @hard top
I'm looking at fitting cruise control to my 2002 2.2 sport . Priced up the parts with the number in this thread £175 in 2018. I'm I right in thinking it's plug and play no computer trickery required ?
Thanks Stuart

 

[hard top]

Hi @hard top
I'm looking at fitting cruise control to my 2002 2.2 sport . Priced up the parts with the number in this thread £175 in 2018. I'm I right in thinking it's plug and play no computer trickery required ?
Thanks Stuart

Sorry Stuart but I have no idea, it was already on my car when I bought it.

 

[the Nefyn cat]

Hi @hard top
I'm looking at fitting cruise control to my 2002 2.2 sport . Priced up the parts with the number in this thread £175 in 2018. I'm I right in thinking it's plug and play no computer trickery required ?
Thanks Stuart

Plugs straight in, you'll have to cut a hole in the shroud around the steering column but it's already marked out, the switch sits in a slot that's already there waiting, and the wire that the box of electrickery plugs into it is there, just got to find it. Somewhere above where your right foot normally goes, taped up out of the way. At least, it was on mine. Unlike most cruise-controls I've come across, this one doesn't seem to have a warning light anywhere, I asked on here quite some time back and one of the replies was from someone whose car had it from new and there's just no light.

 

[Stuart Sutton]

@the Nefyn cat . Thanks for the reply . I'm going to order the bits next month. My Discovery 2 doesn't have a cruise control light.

 

[ZTec]

Nice one Faheem.

 

[JonE]

Just adding a further question to this post, I have read somewhere that manual cars require a 'jumper cable or something for the clutch. I have just brought the x3 items in the list at a cost of approx £175 from BMW, and plan to fit this weekend. Mine is a 3.0 year 2000 'X' reg with manual box. Any ideas if the 3 items listed are all that I require or is there a 4th item for manuals? Thanks in advance

 

[t-tony]

Hi Jon, how's your Spanish?

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-PytGVzybpY


Tony.

 

[mwpe]

https://zroadster.org/articles/bmw-z3-m54-cruise-control-retrofit.25/

 

[JonE]

Hi Jon, how's your Spanish?

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-PytGVzybpY


Tony.

Tony eres una estrella!!!!!!

 

[JonE]

Lucky someone translated the words into English, I've got zero excuses to get this wrong. Once again, Tony, you are a star!!!

Ps, my Spanish is as bad as my Japanese, but you gotta love the internet

 

[t-tony]

Google translate is your friend, Mike @hard top once told me

Tony.

 

[Sea Ranch]

Great guide to this job. Thank you, Faheem and others.

I have a 1997 Z3 1.9 M44 and am considering buying cruise control parts from a 1998 Z3 2.8L donor car.

The BMW parts numbers for control module and actuator seem to be the same for both cars. Don't know about clutch switch or column switch/stalk.

Can anyone confirm whether I will have any problems using parts from a 2.8L car on my 4 cylinder??

Thanks!!!!!!

Randy

 

[ScottM]

Fitted cruise control to 3.0i Sport today. Clutch switch was already in place, so only 2 parts to fit. Couldn’t have been easier and took about an hour, including cutting and sanding the pre-marked aperture on the lower steering column cover. Hardest part was taking off the screw caps on the trim panel without damaging them.