Diagnostic Troubleshooting Strategy
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Use these steps to plan your diagnostic strategy. If you follow them carefully, you will check most of the possible causes of a cruise control system malfunction.
- Gather information from the customer.
- Verify that the condition described by the customer exists.
- Check the vehicle for any cruise control system DTC. (Refer to CRUISE CONTROL SYSTEM DIAGNOSIS Diagnostic Function - How to Read Diagnostic Trouble Codes).
- If you can verify the condition but no cruise control system DTCs are stored, the malfunction may be intermittent. (Refer to HOW TO COPE WITH INTERMITTENT MALFUNCTIONS ).
- If you can verify the condition but there are no cruise control system DTCs, find the fault. (Refer to CHECK CHART FOR TROUBLE SYMPTOMS Symptom Chart).
- If there is a cruise control system DTC, record the number of the code, then erase the code. (Refer to CRUISE CONTROL SYSTEM DIAGNOSIS Diagnostic Function - How to Erase Diagnostic Trouble Codes).
- Re-create the cruise control system DTC stored conditions to see if the same cruise control system DTC will stored again. (Refer to CRUISE CONTROL SYSTEM DIAGNOSIS
Diagnostic Function - How to Read Diagnostic Trouble Codes).
- If the same cruise control system DTC sets again, perform the diagnostic procedures for the set code. (Refer to CHECK CHART FOR TROUBLE SYMPTOMS Diagnostic Trouble Code Chart).