{"id":134,"date":"2012-07-22T17:51:25","date_gmt":"2012-07-22T17:51:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jsndev.net\/?p=134"},"modified":"2012-07-22T17:51:25","modified_gmt":"2012-07-22T17:51:25","slug":"fix-honda-civic-cruise-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2022.jasonrikard.com\/?p=134","title":{"rendered":"How to fix a 2006 Honda Civic’s Cruise Control in 30 minutes"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve had my 2006 Honda Civic for a while now. I don’t drive as much since graduation because I telecommute so I’ve only got 61,000 miles as of now. For the most part, it’s been good to me. \u00a0There have been a few recalls that i’ve participated in but I guess that’s what I signed up for with the first iteration of the 8th generation. \u00a0My biggest complaint that hasn’t been recalled is the bad clear coat paint job which seems to be highly reported on hondaproblems.com<\/a>\u00a0for my model year. \u00a0I’m in the process of taking care of that but for now, my cruise control is finally working again!<\/p>\n

Sometime in the past year the cruise control button on my steering wheel stopped working. \u00a0It’s a mechanical switch that should stay slightly depressed when the cruise is activated. \u00a0In my case, I could still operate the cruise control if I manually held the cruise button down while driving. \u00a0That’s not fun so I thought that paying to have this fixed would be less than $100 but the dealership was asking about $250 for parts and labor which seems high to me. \u00a0With my experience building PC’s over the past decade I decided I could probably handle it myself. Turns out it’s really easy.<\/p>\n

I found a website, bernardiparts.com<\/a>, selling OEM Honda parts and they had just what I needed. \u00a0They have almost all of the OEM parts that are available when you buy your car and most come with instructions. You can usually find a coupon code by searching online for a discount.<\/p>\n

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In the process of searching for documentation on my car I came across a forum where someone had documented the process of installing steering mounted audio controls<\/a>. \u00a0That post shows you how easy it is to replace the broken switch since it’s so modular. \u00a0After examining that post and using it as my guide me and buddy of mine did the repair very easily. \u00a0If you need more pictures, check out those provided in this\u00a0forum post<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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  1. Disconnect your battery by removing one of the terminal leads.<\/span><\/li>\n
  2. Pop off a little 3″ x 1″ panel underneath your steering wheel with flat head screw driver.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n
  3. Disconnect the yellow switch by sliding the black release and pulling apart.<\/span><\/li>\n
  4. Remove one Torx screw on the left and right side of the steering wheel. \u00a0These two screws secure the horn switch and airbag to the wheel. \u00a0They have Loctite\u00ae\u00a0on them so they may require some muscle. \u00a0Don’t strip them. \u00a0We used a power drill.<\/span><\/li>\n
  5. Remove the airbag by pulling the steering wheel cover towards you while unplugging it.<\/span><\/li>\n
  6. Remove the 2 phillips head screws from each spoke behind the wheel. \u00a0These support the plastic shroud on the front.
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  7. Remove the 4 phillips head screws from the front of the wheel. \u00a0This will allow you remove the cruise control switch assembly.<\/span><\/li>\n
  8. Unplug the cruise control switch assembly. \u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n
  9. Replace the old switch with the new one. \u00a0If you’ve made it this far, the rest is self explanatory.
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  10. Reverse the process to reassemble the wheel and you’re done.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
    After you remove the uncertainty from this repair it can be accomplished in less than 10 minutes. \u00a0I’m not sure why the dealership would charge $250 for such a simple repair. It works great and I’m glad to have the functionality again. \u00a0Also, An unintended upgrade from this process is that the new switch assembly has buttons that illuminate! \u00a0Also,\u00a0<\/span>Amazon has some cool Honda Accessories<\/a>\u00a0if you’re interested in doing some more upgrades.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    I’ve had my 2006 Honda Civic for a while now. I don’t drive as much since graduation because I telecommute so I’ve only got 61,000 miles as of now. For the most part, it’s been good to me. \u00a0There have been a few recalls that i’ve participated in but I guess that’s what I signed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2022.jasonrikard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/2022.jasonrikard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/2022.jasonrikard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2022.jasonrikard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2022.jasonrikard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/2022.jasonrikard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2022.jasonrikard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2022.jasonrikard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2022.jasonrikard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}