Ok, now the most painful part (especially for me I didn't have the correct little pins to get to the ECU connector so had to impovise a way to make contact. Guess what !! Connection to the ECU pins are simple wires stuck into the female pin connector
Now when I say I was mad about cruise, I really mean it, see what I've done
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Yep, this is a little wire hanging from the connector, I made sure to bring it a little backward so it won't mess with other pins, it is safe in the female pin connector and makes contact at the same time with the male connector. Well.... what to say ... very artisanal
but that works
Enough talking ! what you should do :
1. Get the lever up of the ECU connector until you hear a click . The connector can be safely removed from the female housing. Cut the plastic tie in its cover, and insert a small screwdriver on the cavity of the cover and pull it toward you (here is the link to the ECU connector, you will find very detailed info about it :
http://www.te.com/catalog/pn/en/284743-1
2. Free space to three of your wires, pins or whatever ... to get contact with the pin connector. The tricky part is to have a long jaw tool to extract the plastic cover which is sticking into your future wires places
See that little long black and white plastic ? This is the type of things to remove. Don't be afraid to pull at all your strenghth though
2. Insert the wires, the pins or whatever in place and connect to the wires you brought from the clock spring
Here is how it looked like once evrything in place
Now I consider all this, is the first part of the mod and this is actually activating the cruise function (shame on hyundai though not to have offered this addition at the beginning). All safety features are working : brake, clutch pedal, cancel button. I'm a happy i30 owner now and considering how much I paid for this mod, I'm more than happy with it (budget : less than 38 $
The second part of the mod is getting the indication lamp work. I tried to activate it this afternoon but couldn't although i brought in and connected all the wires to instrumentation panel according to diagram. I need to even dig for it in the diagrams as I found there is different connection places that are documented by hyundai especially in the MFI section, so I assume I connected the wired to the wrong place or there is another connection to be done but I will definately be doing it. Here is some pictures I took this afternoon of me trying to activate the second part of the mod :
Ok. I'm tired now and it's already being late. I will try to add further information of the second part of the mod once I have time to do it. But in the meanwhile, enjoy your almost free addition of cruise control to our beloved i30.
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