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From: dw@rocksvax.UUCP (Don Wegeng)
Newsgroups: net.auto
Subject: Cruise control question
Message-ID: <326@rocksvax.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 17-Aug-84 16:35:42 EDT
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Posted: Fri Aug 17 16:35:42 1984
Date-Received: Sun, 19-Aug-84 01:32:17 EDT
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I have a question about what I consider to be pecular behavior of my
cruise control.

I own a 1983 Saab 900S with Saab supplied (dealer installed) cruise
control.  I have noticed that when in fifth gear (overdrive) if the
cruise control is engaged the car will slow down by about 5 MPH.  I had
always considered this behavior to be normal until recently, when a friend 
had cruise control installed by a third party on his VW w/o overdrive).
His car does not experience this behavior.  Other Saab owners that I have
talked to have also experienced this behavior.

My theory is that this behavior is either a function of the particular
type of cruise control used by Saab or a function somehow related to
using the control when in overdrive.  However, I'm not very familiar with
how cruise control and overdrive work, so I can't say for sure.  Any ideas?

/Don

Don Wegeng
Xerox Corp.

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