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Old Oct 29, 2018 | 01:24 PM
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has anyone actually added factory cruise control to a 2017 cruze that knows the programming process if there is one? Plug and play ? Soft key with scan tool or techline programming with a code ?
i can get a cruise switch, radio control switch and harnes from GM parts direct but they can not provide me with programming info.
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has anyone actually added factory cruise control to a 2017 cruze that knows the programming process if there is one? Plug and play ? Soft key with scan tool or techline programming with a code ?
i can get a cruise switch, radio control switch and harnes from GM parts direct but they can not provide me with programming info.
Sorry, I can't help you on this. Perhaps one of the other guys can answer this one. I would think the logic side of it would be simple for a GM tech.

Mostly I'm here to ask: Really, this car was built with no cruise control? I guess I thought that'd be pretty standard as it is fly-by-wire anyways so the difference is a couple bucks worth of controls and possibly a configuration change in the PCM.

Then after typing the above I went digging around and found: 2012-2016 Chevy Cruze Complete Cruie Control Kit for Sale

. . . perhaps that would work?
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Old Oct 29, 2018 | 09:25 PM
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I don't want aftermarket cruise. I think the "stalk" looks horrible. Steering wheel controls are much nicer. It sucks because I was a Chevrolet tech at a GM dealership for 28 yrs. I left in Oct. of 2014 at that time the cruzes were pretty much plug and play. Install the switch and use the scan tool to turn on cruise control in the BCM. Simple, now I'm getting the complete runaround. I guess I just have to get ahold of the right person, or at least someone that has resently done it to a 2017 and knows what it takes
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Old Oct 29, 2018 | 11:00 PM
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Like Cathedral, I am shocked a 2017 was sold without CC....I am not sure you can just turn on a "feature" in BCM......

I never programmed a 2017 BCM, but I remember when you replaced older BCM'*, if in the initial programming, you had to turn on all the features that were in the car, and then once the programming was done, ir was done....if you forgot to activate a feature, you couldn't go back and do it again, you had to get a new BCM....maybe the newer ones are different...
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I don't want aftermarket cruise. I think the "stalk" looks horrible. Steering wheel controls are much nicer.
I agree. I never like the stalk no matter what car it is on.

I also think it'* funny that GM has been made fun of for years for the signal/flash/high-beam/wiper/washer/cruise/kitchen-sink stalk, then later much of the industry thought a better idea is to add more stalks. Lights stalk, cruise stalk, signal stalk, column adjust stalk or sometimes lever, kitchen sink stalk or sometimes lever or button or ****.

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It sucks because I was a Chevrolet tech at a GM dealership for 28 yrs. I left in Oct. of 2014 at that time the cruzes were pretty much plug and play. Install the switch and use the scan tool to turn on cruise control in the BCM. Simple
I've not tinkered with this platform much, but from the outside I don't think it'* changed that much. Strikes me that it should be similar, both out of engineering/manufacturing simplicity and engineering laziness ( Engineer: "If we, in 2017 at the dawn of the third millennium, must engineer an option for cruise-control delete for the eight poor saps that end up stuck with it, I'm going to put as little effort into the design as possible so I can get back to designing AI-operated magic wonder cars of the future." ) .

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I guess I just have to get ahold of the right person, or at least someone that has resently done it to a 2017 and knows what it takes
I'd be curious if anyone else has done it on one of these. In the world. Not bashing on you or anything, just this combination of rare car with no CC combined with someone who knows CC is within reach combined with someone with the background to know there is likely a better way than the stalk within reach.
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Like Cathedral, I am shocked a 2017 was sold without CC....I am not sure you can just turn on a "feature" in BCM......

I never programmed a 2017 BCM, but I remember when you replaced older BCM'*, if in the initial programming, you had to turn on all the features that were in the car, and then once the programming was done, ir was done....if you forgot to activate a feature, you couldn't go back and do it again, you had to get a new BCM....maybe the newer ones are different...
I'm weak here, but I would hope (by now) they would have flash memory with practically-unlimited read/write cycles available. If someone reading this knows the answer to this, I'd love to learn it.
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