Auto-Cruise Control System Diagnostic Troubleshooting Strategy
WARNING: This page is about a different car, the 2005 Dodge Stratus and 2005 Chrysler Sebring. However, it is still accessible from the selected car via links, so may be relevant.
Use these steps to plan your diagnostic strategy. If you follow them carefully, you will check most of the possible causes of an auto-cruise control system problem.
- Gather information from the customer.
- Verify that the condition described by the customer exists.
- Check the vehicle for any auto-cruise control system DTC.
- If you can verify the condition and there are no auto-cruise control system DTCs, and the malfunction is intermittent, refer to HOW TO COPE WITH INTERMITTENT MALFUNCTIONS .
- If you can verify the condition but there are no auto-cruise control system DTCs, or the system cannot communicate with the scan tool, check that the auto-cruise control system is operating properly.
- If the auto-cruise control system is operating properly, refer to , AUTO-CRUISE CONTROL SYSTEM DATA LIST REFERENCE TABLE .
- If the auto-cruise control system is operating properly, refer to , AUTO-CRUISE CONTROL SYSTEM DIAGNOSTIC TROUBLE CODE CHART .
- If there is an auto-cruise control system DTC, record the number of the code, then erase the code from vehicle memory using the scan tool.
- Re-create the auto-cruise control system DTC set conditions to see if the same Auto-cruise Control System DTC will set again.
- If the same Auto-cruise Control System DTC sets again, perform the diagnostic procedures for the set code. (Refer to , AUTO-CRUISE CONTROL SYSTEM DIAGNOSTIC TROUBLE CODE CHART ).