i was riding down the road the other day with cruise on and it set and the set light started blinking and then went away and now it wont come back on.. do any of yall know what problem this might be... i was thinking a fuse may have gone out but im not sure.. tnx for any advice

 

There is probably a light built into the switch. I have the same deal with one of my switches on my heated seats. If it still works, don't worry about it. It's prabably a $40 switch.

 

thats the problem.... it doesnt work any more whenever i try it. i guess i will take it up to the local dealer and see what might be the problem.

 

Try unhooking your battery, stepping on the brakes for 10 seconds or so, and then hook the battery back up ,and try it. It sounds stupid, but that's how I fixed my sunroof problem that the dealer wanted $300.00 to fix.

 

ok. i will try that and let you know. tnx

 

How did you decide to do that to fix your sunroof?

 

It was mentioned here on the org. If I could do a search, I'd give credit where credit is due.

The lady I bought the car from took it in, and they gave her an estimate to fix the sunroof. I bought the car, took it in twice, and they gave me the same $300 estimate.

I did a search on maxima sunroofs, (led me here) and within 10 minutes, it was like new.

It was like rebooting a computer. Strange, huh?

 

That's unbelievable... if only things were always this easy to fix.

 

I had what sounds like it might be a similar problem.

One night I was driving with c/c on... the "set" light blinked a couple of times and the c/c disengaged.

Over the next few weeks the way the problem manifested is that if I set c/c, it would work for a while... between 10 min and 1 hr... and then disengage. Once it disengaged, it would not work again until the car sat overnight. (but I didn't try any measures like disconnecting the battery.)

At first the dealer couldn't reproduce it. No component failure showed up on their diagnostic check. I took it back a couple of times and eventually the dealer admitted they could see it quitting too... but without a diagnostic code they refused to do anything about it. (At least they admitted they saw it quit, I guess they could have lied to me and hoped I would go away.) I was getting and composing an ugly letter to Nissan.

Before I got that written, the service engine light came on and I figured it was worth one more trip to the dealer. This time they could read a component failure code.

They wound up replacing a speed transducer *and* the instrument cluster. Fortunately this was all under warranty since I suspect if I had to pay for it, it would have been well over $1000.

This all happened around October/November last winter. It has been OK since then.

One big difference between my problem and yours, though... I have a 2k3. With the DBW throttle I am sure the cruise control system has changed significantly. (there is no vacuum actuator the c/c uses to open the throttle; it's done electronically through the same servo that the gas pedal is linked to.) Possibly the speed-sensing part of the system (what apparently failed on mine) could be the same though.

good luck