96 Accord 2.2 Cruise Ctrl problem

For about a year, my cruise control would work only once for each time
I started my car. After that one shot, if I tried to use it again, it
would try for a second and then then turn itself off. Now it has
gotten worse and I can rarely get it to latch.

Even when it was working, I noticed a somewhat slow response.
Especially on hills. Going up a hill, it would slow down by 5mph and
after cresting the hill, it would speed up to 5mph over then slowly
return to the set speed.

Hopefully these 2 are related and all I have to do is take something
apart and clean it. I've never worked on a cruise control system
before and unfortunately, my Chiltens manual doesn't even show the
location of the device on the engine compartment.

Any insight would be greatly appreciated.

 

I forgot to mention that if I push set and then hold accel the car
will always (try) to excel for as long as I hold it but then when I
let off the accel button, the system usually shuts off after about a
second.

 

electrical contactor issue. cruise fails "off", and there are several
"off" actuators. check, clean and reconnect with silicone [electrical
high dielectric] grease.

variation, degree of variation, reaction time, overshoot, etc. is all
about control theory. degrees required if you want to get into that
stuff seriously.

that's C-H-I-L-T-O-N. and it's A-C-C-E-L in your subsequent post.

that's because chilton manuals are garbage. buy the honda manual at
helm.com. it'll give you a full trouble shooting flow diagram for the
cruise.

as would be accurate spelling and coherent questions - you may even get
helpful responses if you pay attention to little details like that.

 

Wow. You are S-M-A-R-T.

Thanks for the advice. helm.com is all you needed to say. thx