Need help with cruse CTRl

[lovug653]

I have a 4 pin female . Just picked up a stalk that has female 5 pins. Is there anyway to make this work? really trying to get this working again.

[robrez]

see this thread

http://www.r3vlimited.com/board/showthread.php?t=241002&highlight=cruise+control

So, I broke my early model cruise control stalk and bought a replacement here on r3v. Turns out the new one belonged to a late model car. Little did I know that there was a change from early to late model. The early model was a 4 function stalk, Off, Resume, Accelerate, Set Speed. The Late Model has 5 functions, Off, Resume, Accelerate, Decelerate, Set Speed. Early model has 4 wires, Late Model has 5 wires. I looked at it and thought "Damn it BMW, why do you have to change things between years!!" Anyway, I took a look at the wiring circuits on the ETM for both. Turns out the wiring in the plugs are in the same order with the only difference being the additional decelerate circuit. I was able to plug my early model 4 wire CC harness directly to the late model 5 wire CC stalk by offsetting it so that the Decel wire is left unconnected. It works as before.