AnswerID: 123299 Submitted: Tuesday, Aug 02, 2005 at 10:06
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G'day Greg,
I've got a Series IV Auto with Autron Cruise Control. I haven't got a D-Tronic yet as I've heard they're not calibrated for the new Patrol engine & therefore don't make much difference at anything under 2500 rpm. I did email Safari (D-tronic Makers) earlier in the year about it, they said that individual cars can vary by more than the difference between the new and old Patrol so they weren't planning to change anything on the D-tronic. I don't know if that's changed since.
The guys who installed the Cruise control in
Brisbane said they had to change the settings on the unit for the new Patrol as it pulled much harder than the old one and would take off like a rocket using the old Patrol settings. (That is without a d-tronic)
I paid about $100 extra to get the original Nissan cruise control buttons also instead of the Autron ones. They said at the time that Nissan Oz wouldn't provide them and so they bought them direct from Japan. Don't know if that's true, but it wouldn't surprise me as Nissan
Australia are obviously morons.
I previously had an X-trail for over 2 yrs with Autron Cruise fitted, worked perfectly, and now I've driven about 23,000km's with the Patrol and Autron, works perfectly. The idiots at Nissan told me not to get the Autron 'cause it might not work properly. The Autron installer said Nissan wouldn't use them (Autron) 'cause they (Autron) wouldn't sell the Cruise Control cheap enough to Nissan so that Nissan could make a huge profit on them.
Thanks,
Aaron.
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