Steve
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Fitting cruise control to the Fabia 
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Works well, iv written an indepth tutorial on how to do it aswell, which should apply to ibiza's also.
http://www.vagweb.co.uk/forums/viewtopic.php?t=5773
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Hamish
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you fitted an indicator stalk  
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Nic Barnes
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LEGEND
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Fro
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Airbag didnt blow off in your face then
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Colin
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My golfs got cruise control....very handy on the motorway in the AM when im half asleep & cant be bothered using pedals
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Dean_W
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How was the wiring?
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Brett
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Pics of you in the helmet?
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Steve
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quote:
Originally posted by Hamish
you fitted an indicator stalk
far more too it then that, read the guide, takes a fair few hours
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Steve
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Skoda Fabia Cruise Control Retro-fit
This method should also work for the Seat Ibiza although trim removal may differ slightly.
Parts you will need
Cruise control kit available from Seat, Skoda, or VW. This includes the cruise control stalk and loom - p/n: 1J0 998 527A
T6Y 6 pin plug - p/n: 6Q0 937 702A
5 X wires with pre terminated ends - p/n: 000 979 131
4 x inline crimps - available from Halfords
Black insulation tape
Cable ties
Approx 3 metres of 0.35mm fine wire (white sheathed if possible)
Tools you will need
M12 Splined Tool
Hose clip pliers
Wire strippers/cutters
Crimping tool for inline crimps
Philips/flat blade screwdrivers
10mm socket and rachet with extension bar
T20 Torx bit
M4 Allen key or allen key bit
Permanent marker
Paper clip
Soldering iron
READ ALL FOLLOWING INSTRUCTIONS BEFORE STARTING JOB, IF YOU FEEL IT IS TOO DIFFICULT GET A PROFESSIONAL TO DO IT, OR GIVE THEM THIS GUIDE
Use VAGCOM to turn on cruise control in your cars Board Controller -
Connect your ODBII lead to the car, switch the car on and start VAGCOM.
Do a full fault check and reset any faults that appear.
You will need to test the car to see if your Board Controller is compatible for Cruise Control.
-In VAGCOM, open module 09 and ensure it is 6Q0 or 6Q1, NOT 6Q2.
-To enable cruise control choose 11 Log In, enter the code 11463.
-Open module 01, check the upper right hand corner says OOOOSG if cruise control ISN'T enabled, or GOOOSG if cruise control is enabled.
With cruise control enabled, if you now scan the car for fault codes you should get a fault saying Implausible signal from Cruise Control Switch.
Disconnect Battery -
Disconnect the battery negative lead, this will require removal of the battery cover situated here
pull the latch on the side and lift off. Loosen the negative terminal with a 10mm socket/spanner.
Place the lead clear of the battery.
Leave the car to stand for around 10minutes to allow any current still in the system to disappear.
Remove Airbag -
This can be dangerous, if you are not confident please get a professional to do it.
Turn the steering wheel 90 degrees to the left from the straight ahead position. Feeling behind the wheel, locate the small hole positioned here.
Insert a small screwdriver as shown, lever upwards until you feel the spring clip release, you should see the airbag cover unclip on that side.
Rotate the steering wheel the 180 degrees the opposite way and do the same to release the spring clip on this side.
You will now be able to pull the airbag and cover away from the wheel.
Locate the yellow firing wire and with a small tug pull it away from the airbag assembly as shown.
Place the airbag away somewhere safe.
Remove Steering Wheel -
Push the reach/rake lever and push the wheel all the way down, and pull it all the way back.
With the steering wheel back in the straight ahead position, put a mark on the retaining bolt and steering wheel, this will aid in getting the bolt back in the same position.
Hold the steering wheel tightly, do not rely on the steering lock alone. Use the M12 splined tool to remove the retaining bolt.
Using the permanent marker again, place a mark on the inside of the steering column shaft, and on the edge of the inside of the wheel.
This will aid in repositioning the steering wheel when refitting.
Remove the yellow plug near the top inside the steering wheel column as shown.
Place the steering wheel away from you in a safe place.
Remove Steering Column housing and stalks -
Underneath the steering column housing, undo the two philips screws.
Undo the two philips screws on the front of the housing.
Undo the M4 Allen screw underneath the reach/rake lever.
You will also need to remove the felt trim attached to the upper housing. Grip the plastic trim below the dials in the middle and pull sharply to remove it.
Using a thin flatblade screwdriver, lever the plastic clips holding the felt up.
Remove all steering column housing from the vehicle.
The black plastic ring at the front of the column is the cancelling ring, place a mark on the fixed and moving parts so you can realign them again. This is important if you have ESP.
Locate the yellow plug underneath the cancelling ring and pull out.
Loosen the Allen screw at the back of the stalk assembly using an M4 Allen key/bit
Pull the assembly forward slightly and release the three electrical plugs on the back of the stalk assembly, located here.
Pull the entire assembly from the steering column.
Locate a small clip on the front of the assembly here.
Push a flatblade screwdriver into it to unclip, and slide the assembly apart.
Slot the new cruise control stalk into the wiper stalk and fit them back over the steering column.
Retighten the allen screw at the back of the stalks, and reconnect the 3 plugs you previously removed.
Remove Interior Trim -
Firstly remove the light control unit. To do this push the knob in and turn clockwise until it is in the sidelight position pointing straight up.
Lever off the fuse panel cover using a small flat blade screwdriver placing this with the rest of the interior trim removed.
Now you can get to the back of the light control unit and push it out, unclip the plugs in the back of the control and place to one side.
Remove the torx screws shown below using the T20 torx bit.
Pull the lower dash trim down a few inchs, enough so you can get your hand behind the drivers side air vent and pull the rubber hose off.
Lever the purple ODB plug away from the back of the lower dash trim. You can now fully remove the lower dash trim and place somewhere safe.
Now to remove the glovebox.
Undo the 3 T20 Torx screws in the top of the glovebox and the 3 screws at the bottom of the glovebox.
Lower the glovebox down slightly and unplug the rubber airhose to the glove box as well as the illumination plug for the light. Be careful if you have airbag deactivation fitted. Place the glovebox aside with the rest of the trim.
Install white 0.35mm wire into the ecu plug -
This will involve running a length of the white 0.35mm wire from the ecu to the cruise control equipment.
You will need to remove the airbox.
The airbox is located here under the bonnet.
Disconnect the MAF plug by pushing the clip in pulling the plug out. The MAF is located here.
Undo the spring clip from the air hose using the hose clip pliers, or a suitable G-Clamp would suffice.
Undo the 10mm bolt on the airbox shown.
Pull the air hose from the lid, and give the whole unit a tug to lift clear from the car.
Place the airbox safely away from the car.
Behind the ABS unit you will see a small grommet, located roughly here.
This will be where the 0.35mm white wire will come through into the engine bay.
Working back inside the car, where the glovebox was fitted you can make out the back of the target rubber grommet.
We found getting the wire through tricky, taping the wire to some thicker wire, for example a coat hanger allowed us to push the wire through into the engine bay.
Please note we used black wire for this install as we did not have any white. White would be better if you have it to match the loom when you solder into the plug.
Next remove the ECU from its plastic mounting bracket. The ECU is located as shown and can be pulled from its mounting bracket clips.
Remove the electrical loom plugs from the back of the ECU. To do this pull the plastic slide clips up from each one and pull the plugs to remove.
Ignore the smaller plug, we are going to be working on the larger 81 pin connector (T81a).
Cut the cable tie from the plastic housing on the back of the plug and remove the plastic housing exposing the wires.
You need to locate pin 14, which should be the only solid white wire, please note there are several other white/coloured stripe wires which may appear white, inspect carefully to ensure you have the correct wire.
You need to snip this about 1 inch from the plug. You may find the insulation gets in the way so carefully cut this back using a sharp blade, such as a stanley knife. Once you have snipped it, strip it back ready for soldering.
Now you will need to feed the white 0.35mm wire from the rubber grommet up the plastic corrugated sheath covering the ecu loom.
Again remember it is black in our examples as we did not have any white.
Now solder the end of your white 0.35mm to the end of the white wire coming from the back of the plug.
You can snip off and tape up the white wire that is left from the existing loom, it is not needed.
Tape all this up using electrical insulation tape. Refit the back cover, replacing the cable tie to hold the cover in place. Refit the plugs into the back of the ECU and clip the ECU back on its bracket.
Pull back any slack in the white 0.35mm wire into the car.
Refit the airbox in reverse order how you removed it making sure you plug the MAF plug back in.
Wiring in the Cruise Control Loom -
Working back inside the car, poke the white 0.35mm wire across the back of the heater/ventilation unit into the drivers side footwell, ensure any slack is pulled through and refit the glovebox in the reverse order you took off.
Secure the 0.35mm white wire with cable ties to ensure it is out of site and not obstructing anything.
Take your cruise control loom from the kit, and match the 10 pin connector (T10g), up with the plug on the back of the cruise control stalk.
Plug this in and feed it over the back of the steering column into the footwell.
Secure out of sight with cable ties if you can.
On the end of the cruise control loom, you will see a cluster of flatblade connections, cut the ends of the wires above flatblade terminations off, they are not needed for this method.
Take 4 of your yellow pre terminated wires (p/n 000 979 131). Cut about three inchs from the end of the termination. On the cut ends, strip back and crimp and inline crimp to the end of each one.
Strip back the ends of the cruise control loom you have just cut.
Now take one of your pre-made yellow wires and crimp from your cruise control loom the two black/yellow wires and your white 0.35mm wire.
Crimp each of the remaining wires from the cruise control loom (blue, red/yellow, white) to the remaining three pre-made yellow wires.
Taking your brown T6Y 6 pin plug (p/n 6Q0 937 702A). Insert the yellow pre terminated wires in the following fashion.
Pin 2 - White cruise loom wire
Pin 3 - Black/yellow & 0.35mm white wires
Pin 5 - Blue cruise loom wire
Pin 6 - Red/yellow cruise loom wire
Push the purple locking tab back on the T6Y 6 pin plug housing.
You will need to plug this into your vehicles electrical system control unit.
If you look under the drivers side footwell upwards you should see this.
Plug it into the spare port labelled XS3.
You should be left with a blue/black wire and plastic plug on the cruise control loom.
Remove the plug from the top of the footbrake.
Unclip the side of the plug you have just removed to expose the connections.
Using a bent paperclip slide the two prongs of the paperclip up the sides of the termination of Pin 2 which is the blue/red wire.
Pull the termination from the plug housing.
Once released, take the blue/black loose wire from the cruise control loom, which should have a female termination on the end. Push this into the brake pedal switch plug where you just removed the blue/red wire.
Close up the plug, and refit.
Take the blue/red wire and female termination you removed from the brake switch, and plug it into the plastic housing clipped into the cruise loom. Join the two plugs, cover all the wires with insulation tape.
Cable tie the lot out of sight.
Refit all the trim you have removed in reverse order you took off.
Please note when refitting the steering wheel, the centre bolt is treated with sealant which can be used up to five time. Put a mark or centre punch on the bolt so you have a record how many times its been removed.
Tighten the steering wheel bolt to 60nm.
When you reconnect the battery make sure no-one is in the car incase the airbag goes off.
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Hamish
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quote:
Originally posted by Steve
quote:
Originally posted by Hamish
you fitted an indicator stalk
far more too it then that, read the guide, takes a fair few hours
i appreciate that mate. Tbh i wouldnt know where to start fair play to you
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Steve
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posted it for ya above 
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Brett
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How much would Skoda charge to do this, out of interest?
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BarnshaW
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i wonder how many people will need to know how to fit cruise control to a skoda fabia on a corsa website 
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Steve
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i wonder how many people dont own corsas on said corsa website
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cunningham
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fookin hell some amount of work to be lazy imo
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Steve
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im gonna find it useful say in 50 limits with cameras, means i wont have to watch the speedo adjusting the throttle all the time
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Fro
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Will be useful for average speed sections aswell.
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BarnshaW
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takes 2/3 secs to glance at ur speedo in approach to a camera =\ but good job as its a task that i certainly would not have attempted
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Steve
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yeah but means i wont have to adjust the throttle all the time if i waver over or go under too much
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Steve
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it is quite a lengthy job but most people could do it following that guide, its pretty simple step by step
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Gareth
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looks like a right mission well done steve not a chance would i attempt that on my octavia would prefer a few speeding tickets 
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Steve
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seriously gareth john you could do it
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Gregor
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ive got what looks like that on my ibiza - do cupras come standard with it ?
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Steve
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dont think so
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