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Subject:Re: cruise control on an air cooled westy
From:Dennis Jowell
Date:Sat, 13 Dec 2014 06:57:23 -0500

I use the Rostra Cruise Control System on my 1988 WBX and works great. Magnets on the cv axle etc!

Dennis Jowell
Scotch Hollow Farm
West Newbury, Vermont 

> On Dec 12, 2014, at 2:16 PM, Loren Busch <starwagen@GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> 
> RE: After Market Cruise Control
> 
> For many years the Audiovox CCS100 kit was a great solution.  That is what
> I added to my '90.  But those kits are near impossible to find any more.
> And the price went through the roof on eBay last time I looked.
> 
> Rostra bought out that product from Audiovox.  I have looked at the Rostra
> product line and it appears (or did a couple of years ago) that one of
> their systems could be put together and work on a Vanagon.  Air cooled or
> WBX should make no difference.
> 
> With cruise controls becoming standard equipment of most model new cars in
> the last few years I suspect that the market for add-on cruise kits has
> pretty well dried up.  So the pickings have become pretty thin for those of
> us driving 20+ year old vehicles.