Believe me living on disability I completely understand. To bad he don't have a friend working at a dealer who could check it for him as a favor. I did that a lot for my buddies but I was a shop foreman and had a key to our shop and could stay as late as I liked. Ron

Hay Guys .... THANKS MUCH for this enlightening convo .... Seriously !!! ..., and this is serious because I am being FLAT OUT lied to by two smaller shops and a big Chrysler dealer. Now remember - this is a 2005. They are all saying that this is NOT a simple hook up to a machine. They are all basically suggesting that finding out the problem here is a painstaking time consuming electrical issue. NOW ... Putting this on the scope and getting a result in 60 seconds ? .... for 100$ ... on a machine that costs maybe 2400$ ? .... Isn't that a little pricey ?

Its a shame we don't live closer and I don't still work at the dealer. The Mopar scanner will tell the tech what caused the cruise to cut out the last time it cut off. That right there would point me in the right direction if I was diagnosing it. That would take me about 2 minutes to see on the scanner we used at the dealer. A good tech with a good scanner should be able to find what caused the problem without much trouble. The cruise is worked by the PCM on your vehicle as the PCM monitors the switches and then works the servo to make the cruise set. You can also check the brake switch and all the cruise switches in a few minutes with the right scanner. I loved electrical work and did all the big electrical jobs at my dealer. Most techs thought I was nuts because most techs don't like electrical work but I loved it. Wish I could do more for you but I cant diagnose over the internet I can only guess this way. Ron

My cruise quit and I did a hard reset to the system and that fixed it. Hard reset is basically taking both battery cables off the battery and hooking them together for a couple of hours. I tied them together with a zip tie. My truck is a 2012 so I don't know if that will work for you.

Thx Ron ... Generous offer ! If only huh ?!! .. What type of scanner is needed to pull these codes up ? Hell - if I could BUY ONE reasonable I might consider doing that ! How long are the codes saved to be pulled up ? ... Stumpy - I can understand resetting the system
by disconnecting the pos battery cable but hooking the pos and neg together ?

I would not do a hard reset 'till after reading the currant codes with a scanner.As Ron and Joe said,hook to a good scanner!!!

I hear you itis .. Define a good scanner ?

None of the aftermarket scanners can hold a candle to the factory piece.

and i don't think you are going to get a factory machine [new] for $2400.

Yea the factory scanner I used on yours would be the DRBIII as it could do so much when diagnosing Mopars it was great. I don't know if any other scanners will do as much because I always used the Mopar scanners. But you should at least be able to see it any codes are set with any scanner. Since the PCM works your cruise it can set codes for most everything on the cruise circuit other then a vacuum problem to the servo which that don't sound like your problem. Ron

Hay guys .... So this scanner is MORE than 2400$ ? Who makes this piece ? Maybe Miller ?