How To Replace Cruise Control Combination Switch 2000-06 Chevy Tahoe

We removed the steering wheel for this job. We don't necessarily need to remove the steering wheel, but it makes it a lot easier to see and easier to do the job. Now, I wanna tip the steering column down. Just use the adjuster, adjust it down. Take the key, put the key in, turn it on, and then slide the shifter lever all the way to low. And just grab, make sure your foot is on the brake while you're doing this. And just grab this trim, just slide it out just like this. Tip it down, slide it out, put it out of the way.

Now, you can put the vehicle back in park, take the key out. Now, I'm gonna take this panel off right here. Just slide that off. Use a 10-millimeter socket. You wanna remove this bracket right here that holds the parking brake release. There's a 10-millimeter bolt right there, take that off. Just slide that out of the way. And there's two screws right here or bolts, use a 7-millimeter socket to take those out.

Then you should be able to grab this panel and just slide it out. It should be clipped in. The clips are missing on this vehicle, but if you just grab it and yank it towards the back of the vehicle, that will come out. I'm just gonna adjust the column up a little bit, then we can take the adjuster off. Just grab it and just pull it towards the outside of the vehicle. Sometimes these are pretty tricky, you could put a straight blade screwdriver in there and pry it out a little bit if you have to.

Now, just double-check underneath in these holes. Make sure there's no screws in there. This vehicle doesn't have any screws, sometimes there is screws. Sometimes you just grab this panel and just slide it down just like that. Clips in on the back and clips in. And the top panel, same thing. Should just clip in. Take that off. All right. There's two screws, you can take the screw out right there, and then there's another screw on top right here. Use a T25. Just be careful, you don't wanna mess up the clock spring.

And take this top screw out. Then you can grab the switch and just slide it out to the side. Now, you can disconnect the connectors. Now, we can disconnect the connectors, just use a pocket screwdriver, lift up under the tab. Just try to slide the wires out just like that. There's another connector down here and one more. There we go.

All right. Before you put this in, you could put a little grease on that little tab right there. That's gonna ride on the backside of here that has to do with the horn circuit. And you got to angle this in a little bit just like that. Get the holes lined up. It sits in there a certain way. You'll know when you get it. And that's good like that. You can put the bolts back in. You can start with the top bolt. I'm gonna get this screw started. And just make sure that's in a certain position and snug those bolts down.

Now, you can connect the connectors if you wanted to. If it was a little easier for you, you could plug the connectors in before you hook this up. Just put them in their proper spots. And this gray one goes right here. And this other black one with the two feet go on top. And this other one goes right here. There you go. All right. We're gonna reinstall the covers. The top cover goes up here and the bottom cover, it's gonna loop on like that and then sandwiched together.

So, that's why you take all this stuff off in the area because it's a lot easier to get these together. So, just slide this in position and take the bottom cover, click it in the back. Loop it on there, loop it on the other side. All right. And these are looped on. I just wanna slide this in position and the shifter boot. Keep that in mind. You wanna get that in the right position there. And there we go. Make sure that's all in position. Looks good.

And then if you had those screws underneath, put those screws in and put that adjuster in, lock it in place. All right. Take this panel. If you have those clips, you're gonna line those up, the top here. Slide those in position and snap it in place. Then take these screws from underneath, get these started, and snug those up. Now, take the parking brake release handle and there's a little tab right there that slides in position, and then tighten up that 10-millimeter bolt. Looks good.

And take this fuse cover, snap it in. All right. Now, I wanna lower the steering column. Just use the adjuster and then put the key in. Put it down in low gear. Make sure your foot is on the brake. You can put this trim piece back in position. Just slide it over. You might have to bend it a little bit. And then make sure you line the bottom part up first, get that snapped in, and then go around, snap the rest of it in. We can put it back in park, take out the key. If you removed the steering wheel, now at this point you'd put the steering wheel back on and reconnect the battery.