If you could please repost how you did this (always have CC ready/on) I would sure appreciate it. I hope your way involves taking the switch out of the picture alltogether as I would like to use that switch as part of a starter kill mod that I am trying to think of. If not I,ll think of something else. TYIA for your reply.

 

Instructions for making the Nissan Cruise Control always "ready".

1) Open the hood. Locate Relay Box #1, the black relay box on the passenger's side of the engine compartment. Note the labels on the exterior top of the plastic relay box cover. Identify the position of the ASCD relay. ASCD = Automatic Speed Control Device. That's the Nissan name for Cruise Control.

2) Remove the relay box cover. This can be done with fingers but a screwdriver may help to release the latches at the leading and trailing end.

3) Identify the ASCD relay. It is a type 1M relay and is blue in color. Remove it. A small screwdriver will help to release the latch which holds it in place.

4) Fashion a jumper wire about 1 inch long. Crimp or solder a male spade lug at each end of the jumper.

5) Look at the terminals on the ASCD relay. There are four of them. Identify the load terminals, designated 3 and 5. These numbers are embossed in the plastic housing next to the terminals, but they are difficult to read. A magnifying lens may be helpful. You may also identify them by position. Note that three of the four terminals are parallel to each other. The terminal which is not parallel is number
5. Number 3 is the terminal most distant from number 5.

6) Plug the jumper into the female relay sockets corresponding to terminals
3 and 5.

7) Snap the relay box cover in place.

8) Close the hood.


This modification eliminates the need to use the dashboard Cruise Control switch. The dashboard switch light will be on whenever the ignition is on, indicating that the Cruise Control is "ready". All the other Cruise Control controls work in the usual way.

 

I,ve got it saved in my briefcase. Don,t suppose you would know if there would be a way to jump the wires at the switch do you? Thank you sir.

 

Or you could just leave the switch on........

 

I suppose you could do this. I never tried because my "Jumper the relay" method worked so well. I made this mod on my '87 Stanza (when it was new) and it worked perfectly, so I repeated the exercise on my '99 Maxima.
The "Jumper the relay" method gives you a spare blue relay to use in the future as a substitute for any questionable blue relay.

 

i tried doing this mob but it didnt work. first the relay box is in front of the battery not on the passanger side (oh yeah i have a 97) and second the relay is brown not blue. but i followed the directions and the cruise light is and stays on but the cruise wont work, i cant set it. i tried jumping other terminals but it didnt work. can anyone help me

thanks

 

I have a 97 and the relay is located in front of the battery and is brown. For the brown relay jump terminals 3 & 5 and terminals 6 & 7.

Jim

 

i did 6 and 7 the light comes on but i still cant set the cruise none of the cruise buttons work

 

oh ok you mean 6 and 7 and 3 and 5 ok i get it

thanks

 

Will this work on my 96? If so, which relay am I looking for (brown or blue)?

Thanks!

 

Is there any way to make the cruis control work oposite the way it does stock?

IE: always on, but can be turned off with switch, rather than always off, but can be turned on...

I dont want to lose the function of the switch, or at least show mod instructions on removing the switch all togother...

I dont like the idea of a lit up switch that does nothing.....

Thanks in advance guys...
Dave

 

I'll have to go check mine, but it appears to be a VF4 version relay. All you would need to do is find the same style relay in a "normally closed(NC)" version instead of "normally open (NO)". That basically means that when power is applied to the relay, energizing it, the relay "switches" to the opposite "normal" position. Nearly all relays are made in both NO and NC formats.

 

any word on the availability of this relay in the NC state?