I was driving along the 210 freeway at about 80 m.p.h. with the cruise control on for about 15 minutes. When the cruise light turns off, the set light starts to flash, the trip odometer goes blank but still backlit, and the cruise control buttons become non responsive.

I then exited the nearest off ramp. The trip odometer displayed 8s in every digit place then displays the correct trip distance number. I pulled over and turned off the car. After the restart everything seemed fine so I went on my way.

On the way back to my house I used the cruise control again to try to recreate the malfunction, but the cruise control did not act up again.

I am going to play around with the cruise control a bit more and also take it to the dealer to have a look at it.

Has this malfunction happened to anyone else?

I searched over 199 threads and not reports of a similar nature on www.b15sentra.net amd 190 thread t at www.sr20deforun.com - http://www.sr20deforum.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=12206&highlight=cruise+control was close but not that same.

Weird. My car has done something similar to that about 2 times. Except that the SET light only flashes & the cruise control doesn't respond, but the odemeter stays the same. Once I turn off the car & restart, it's OK. http://www.gamers-forums.com/smilies/kao/msroom/m-bo.gif

Thanks for the reply Freddie. There was also a confirmed report, over at b15sentra, that this malfunction does seems to happen every now and then randomally. It does not seem reproducable. And the cause is still unknown.

I posted this on here on sr20deforum then on b15sentra, nissanforums, and the So Call SERCA mailing list - hopefully someone will know something new about this phenomena - more then that it happens now and then so just deal with it.
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^ Cool man! http://www.gamers-forums.com/smilies/kao/msroom/m-v.gif

Yeah. It only happens once in a while & then it never happens again. Oh well, I guess random human / computer error.

Yeah it seems like the ECU crashes just like every other computer. :sigh: