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Has anyone had any experience with this particular cruise control kit? http://www.cum-cartec-shop.de/product_i ... ts_id=1517 It is a German site, but claims to be compatible with the C, and petrol engines that are not drive by wire. From what I can see, it consists of a control unit, stalk, brake pedal switch, vac motor and throttle cable linkage. It seems to take a signal from the GALA wire for speed, a switch on the brake pedal, and a vac feed from the brake servo to control the accelerator cable - seems to be a lot less involved thab fitting the whole OEM unit. The description also states that it is type and TUV approved. Would be an interesting upgrade and nice little feature to have.

There are two plastic seat rail guide pieces that are probably missing - replace them and it should sort it out.

Not sure if there is a how to, but here is how I did it : You will need: An uprated loom - a main/dip one is fine, as the main lights are both fed from the main beam 2 4 pin headlight connector plugs - 357941165 Some loom repair wire - 000979227 - this comes with pins on the end that slide into the connector, they are double ended, so four will do. Bullet connectors and heat shrink, loom tape. Some spare wire ( about 2 metres) A multimeter Cable ties A ratchet crimper, wire cutter/stripper and a terminal extractor if you make a mistake The other end of the plug connection - this is not available seperately, as they are molded into the headlight plastic body. I cut one out of an old headlight unit - they are also found on similar age Passats. The wire colours are: Brown - earth Yellow - dip beam White - main beam Grey/black - sidelights Cut the H4 connectors off your new loom, and crimp on 3 repair wires for main, dip and earth. Use heat shrink and tape to make it neat and waterproof. Repeat for the other side. The new loom will have a yellow and white wire with spade connectors to switch the relay, the signal comes from the original connector. You can cut these off and connect it to the part of the plug from the headlight unit. There will also be a signal for the sidelights coming from the original connector - this does not need to be relayed, and you can take the signal from there and crimp on two new wires and run them inside the new loom, one to each headlight socket. Insert the pins into the sockets in the correct locations and test for continuity with a multimeter. If all is ok, connect the uprated loom to the battery, plug each new socket into the headlight body, and the now disconnected passenger side plug into the new connector on the loom. Also disconnect the dim dip resistor - this a yellow connector near the battery. The advantage here is that you can switch back to stock by just connecting the original plugs back, and the signal wire connection is good and water tight - normally you would just shove the spades into the old socket. I would not run uprated bulbs with this loom as it still uses the stock wiring inside the headlight, but you should see a huge improvement in any case with normal bulbs. Hope this helps.

I've made one up that uses oem plugs on the uprated loom to connect to each headlight and then the female version cut out of an old headlight shell to connect the control wires to the original loom. It's completely reversible and involves no cutting.

This worked perfectly for me when I wanted to change the main beam bulb, which had burned out. You need to be careful with the two lower trim plugs, the bulb itself just pops in from the front , and the blue cover on top as they didi not have blue LEDs in those days. One tricky bit is getting the clear cover back on over the milometer reset button - this will take some trial and error as it has to go through a hole in the cover - does anyone know if that button can be removed ?

Yeah - you just beat me to it - did a little digging and searching and found the following: Brown, earth Grey/red, sidelight, opposite corner to earth Yellow, Dip beam White main beam. I need to disconnect the dim dip and run a jumper from the oem loom for the sidelights to the new plug. Cheers for all the help.

Tried that - no luck - with it disconnected, no position 1 lights, connected, low beam on position 1. Went back to the stock loom for a test, and sidelights work as expected. There are four wires in the plug - brown (earth), yellow (low beam ?), white (high ?) and (grey/black ?) - do I have these right ? The uprated loom spades are going to yellow and white.

Nobody ? I know I am a newbie but surely someone should be able to help out.... Many thanks in advance.

Hi all, New member here, http://www.corrado-database.nl/index.ph ... do&id=4885 I recently fitted an uprated loom using OEM connectors to plug directly into the headlight units, it gets its signal from 2 spades going into the original plug from the stock loom. There are four wires on the plug - can anyone confirm what they are - earth, high, low and spots/sidelights ? Reason I'm asking is that my sidelights now don't come on when you move the indicator stalk, and position 1 of the light switch, which should be sidelights, gives low beam only. High and low on position 2 work fine. This has me suspecting that one of the wires is for the sidelight, but since most uprated looms only take 2 signals from the switch how would these be connected up ? Many thanks.