2007 Tacoma cruise control problem

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| On a recent trip, my cruise started acting up while climbing a hill.
| The cruise was set at 60 MPH. As I started climbing the fairly steep
| hill the 4 speed automatic transmission shifted down from 4th to 3rd.
| After several seconds, it started switching between 2nd and 3rd rather
| quickly, spending about 1/2 second in each gear. The service
| department at my dealer said "Oh yeah, it'll do that". Email response
| from Toyota corporate quoted the owners manual "When driving on
| slippery or steep roads, do not use the cruise control". Granted,
| this is a fairly rare situation, but still I don't think it should do
| that. What are your thoughts?
|
| - les
|

There isn't a problem! When the engine gets loaded down the tranny
downshifts. Followed by the rpm climbing back up where it shifts back
up. My '99 Tacoma does the same thing.

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| "OldPhart" < |
| | | hill.
| steep
| 3rd.
| rather
| | response
| | | do
| | | | | | | | |
| Toybloata's cruise control seems not to have a 'soft' edge as some
others
| do, It drops in speed, slams down, then stays in until well past
regaining
| speed.
|
| The best cruise control I've ever encountered was in two rental Penske
| trucks. Seemed to sense the terrain and NOT slam about but just allow
some
| speed loss and then drop down and continue smoothly pulling. NEVER
over
| rev'ved that engine the way Toybloata does in my Taco if I don't kill
the
| 'cruise' in time.
|
| Truly only useful for reasonably flat cruising.
|
| It's about the only thing I truly, completely dislike in the Taco, but
it's
| just poor engineering. I also get better milage with mine OFF!
|

I agree that Toyota's cruise control is "too tight". Even on level
ground here in Texas it is constantly hunting back and forth of my set
speed. My GM Safari van cruise control is much better. What I should
have said was that there isn't a problem other than that's the way
Toyota designed it.

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Not that it applies here, but Toyota CC works great on a manual tranny.
Seems to me like the real "issue" here is the auto tranny setup, not the CC,
as CC really only interacts with the throttle.

Hey!
What are you driving with the manual trans and CC.
ZaXXoN

I have the same in my 90 4 runner. love it. works great and relively
smooth. not as smooth as the gm criuse control but smooth none the
less

My '92 V6 4WD extra cab pickup with manual transmission has cruise
control and it works great. A short drive I do every day through the
woods has many changes in elevation and lots of curves. The speed
limit is 35 MPH. I put the truck in 4th gear and set the CC to 35 and
just steer. The button locations are also the most convenient ones
I've ever encountered.
ERS

I'll second that!

I've got an '05 Tacoma V6, and I can just leave the thing in gear and
drive. Plenty of torque for hills.

Hey!
Got an 86 4x4 turbo pickup here under restore and was wondering where
the speed control actuator is mounted on any manual trans pickup or
4runner. Might just dump in cc along with the restore.
ZaXXoN

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I find it quite good with my 91 RV6 4runner manual.
Hitthe freeway and not havign to worry about speed cameras/cops hiding in
bushes etc.

Its the first car that Ive owned with cruise in a manual though. I wondered
why to start with but now Im used to it.