this is interesting to me, because my cousin has a 87 325is BMW, it did'nt have cruise control. they had to take the steering assembly apart to get to the turn signle flasher and low and behold there was a cruise control stalk in there. And oddly enough, it popped right into the hole that i plastic cover peice was covering up. They did some research, and the car was delivered "without cruse, but for X hundred dollars we'd be glad to install it for you". You can tell by the look of the stalk that it hasn't ever been used, as it looks nice and clean/new and the other ones look used/old faded. I found that pretty interesting, maybe mercedes did the same thing!
R

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83 300SD.......sold
96 integra SE....sold
99 a4 quattro....sold
2001 IS300.......sold
2002 330i.........current.
2004 highlander limited....current.