Hi,
I am trying to install aftermarket Audiovox CCS-100 cruise control on my Echo 2001.Instructions are general, and I can not locate wires for VSS
(vehicle speed sensor) and tachometer connections. I spent over 16 hrs trying without success.I was researching online and was not able to find.
Please if someone knows this info, it would be greatly appreciated!
here is the manual instruction enclosed:
[quote=echoecho7;2770279]Hi,
I am trying to install aftermarket Audiovox CCS-100 cruise control on my Echo 2001.Instructions are general, and I can not locate wires for VSS
(vehicle speed sensor) and tachometer connections. I spent over 16 hrs trying without success.I was researching online and was not able to find.
Please if someone knows this info, it would be greatly appreciated!
here is the manual instruction enclosed:
Also, I have one more question: Do I need to install additional vacuum canister in order to get this thing working?
Hey echoecho7, ... I'm eggzackly where you are with the CC install, (JC Whitney?, mine is). Anyhow, the blue wire wants the VSS signal as you know, and I'm pretty sure it'll be one of the wires running into the "brainbox", aka PCM, aka ECM, located on the passengers firewall where you can access it by popping out the glove box. Tach signal oughta be there as well. Here's luck to both of us; I've stuck in the rest so now just the circuit to the brake light switch. Where'd you decide to put the "dash-mount control"? , .... I chopped my vacuum line just beside the air intake tube beside the air cleaner, seemed to have lots of vacuum but will report back, .... Dennis
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2000 Echo, 200,000kms, aftermarket cruise control (AudioVox CCS-100), Intelligent Battery Guard (CTC), Sirius Satellite Radio, Scangage II, Garmin GPS, synthetic engine and gearbox lubes , Silicone Brake Fluid, Power Steering belt removed, delighted with the "tiny perfect car"
I just had a look at the firewall under my glove box and guess what? no ECM !!?? So now the burning question is where is it? And come to that, another burning question is does anyone have a decent manual for these critters? Not the bloody "digital" thing that instantly accesses twenty million issues we never need, but is all lined up numerically and alphabetically. Give me perhaps a Haynes, Chilton or Clymer and we'll be able to find the VSS and even the ECM. Or maybe that's too much to ask. Sorry for the irrelevance here but I've never had so reliable a car with so little tech info available! Frustrating!!
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2000 Echo, 200,000kms, aftermarket cruise control (AudioVox CCS-100), Intelligent Battery Guard (CTC), Sirius Satellite Radio, Scangage II, Garmin GPS, synthetic engine and gearbox lubes , Silicone Brake Fluid, Power Steering belt removed, delighted with the "tiny perfect car"
Many thanks n00b, ... that should get two of us "cruising", .... fwiw I took pix during my install and will post a procedure if this works out as well as I expect.
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2000 Echo, 200,000kms, aftermarket cruise control (AudioVox CCS-100), Intelligent Battery Guard (CTC), Sirius Satellite Radio, Scangage II, Garmin GPS, synthetic engine and gearbox lubes , Silicone Brake Fluid, Power Steering belt removed, delighted with the "tiny perfect car"
I got the AudioVox CCS-100 to work on my 2000 Echo. Took lots of time, and I had some great help from my local Toyota dealer in that they printed me a copy of their CC installation manual. The elusive VSS wire is in an 18 hole block terminal that plugs into the BACK of the in-car fuse box. It's Violet with a white tracer, quite small and hard to get at. I chose to solder it (to the grey VSS input wire) to be sure of a good connection as I don't trust those fiddly wire-splicers they supply. The kit instructions were out-of-date, but someone on the JC Whitney site commented that the AudioVox site has updated data. I tried getting a VSS signal right off the VSS sensor under the air cleaner box, but it didn't work. Also I have no tach input for the blue wire so far; I tapped into one of the four wires in my #4 spark unit but it didn't work. No big deal as if you declutch wrongly the engine starts to roar, so flick off the CC ! Another product commenter said to tap into the crank sensor or cam sensor and change the dip switch to "ECM". I may try that, but the unit works to my satisfaction as it is. I took quite a few pix during this and will post some if anyone so wishes. I had a good outcome, and you'll not beat that price.
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2000 Echo, 200,000kms, aftermarket cruise control (AudioVox CCS-100), Intelligent Battery Guard (CTC), Sirius Satellite Radio, Scangage II, Garmin GPS, synthetic engine and gearbox lubes , Silicone Brake Fluid, Power Steering belt removed, delighted with the "tiny perfect car"
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