'01 Prizm LSi has all cruise parts, no wiring. What harness or parts do I need?

[burnout8488]

My '01 Prizm seems to be equipped with every cruise control component, minus the wiring harness and the steering wheel stalk. The cruise control motor is in the engine bay with an empty plug on it. Even the cruise brain is behind the glovebox, but isn't hooked up!



Should I go to a junkyard and just get the harness and switch, or will I need to do some wiring into the ECU as well?

It seems as if the OEM cruise was half-installed... I thought the LSi had cruise control and CD player standard but mine does not. Perhaps this was a fleet car with odd options?

[Buurin]

Heh, I was about to ship out a retrofit kit.

A long shot of a reason could be the "cowl wire", a major wire harness in the car, has been replaced with one for cars without cruise.

I don't know if your car is manual or auto - you need to check into the engine wire harness for a brown-yellow wire from one of the 4 plugs into a junction connector buried inside the harness. It carries the torque converter lock-up signal and cruise brain needs it. If it is there, or yours is a manual, then just harness and switch. But you will either be looking at one of

1) the entire cowl wire, which requires removing the entire dashboard to get at;
2) major extrication work
3) bits and pieces with about 10" (wild guess) of wires from each key components. You get to supply wires and build up the rest. ie. lots of soldering.

I went the major extrication path, after extracting the entire cowl wire, because I pulled the kit from a junkyard 98 myself.

[burnout8488]

Yikes! That's what I was afraid of. I was hoping the cruise harness might be a separate piece, but isn't.

My car is auto, and it doesn't appear that anyone has laid their hands on anything before.

Regardless, I think I'll stop by the junkyard later and see what's still intact on their 'rollas. Maybe I can learn something.