Do you guy`s with the automatic 4t40e transaxle, find the traction control to be a pain in the ass? I dissable mine by pulling up on the park brake (just till the trac off light) comes on. I think for me it is better without it. And with the performance muffler I have on the car, when the traction control comes on, it looses power, and sound`s like a rev limiter is engaged.
That is how the traction control works, it cuts power until wheel spin is no longer detected. Yeah pulling the ebrake works but then you have the anoying ding once you start rolling, maybe you should try turning it off with the ETS (enhaced tractions system) switch next to your fog light switch, that's what its there for, hit the switch and the idiot light that says TRAC OFF comes on which means that traction control is off.
i NEVER KNEW THAT. i HAVE A FIVE SPEED BUT COME ACROSS THAT PROBLEM WITH OTHER WITH THE AUTO AND LOOKED FOR THE BOTTON BUT NEVER FOUND IT. COOL.
Quote: no ofence man but if you have so much experience in all that why does your car look like crap?
The thing is, I don`t have foglight`s, so no fog light switch. I have the LS, but not the sport. Does this mean I have no other way to disable the traction?
The switch should be to the left of the steering wheel below the left hand vent.
I don't have a switch to shut it off either.
But I don't think it's a bad thing. Manipulating engine torque to control traction is way better than braking to take a corner.
Ya, no matter what your slowing down, but when your in GS and your worst competition is a mini cooper S which also has traction control (except it's traction control will automatically apply the brakes to individual tires while manipulating engine torque; all the while having 30 more horsepower than you with a car that wieghs 1000 lbs. less) you actually begin to appreciate the new technologies, and learn how to use them instead of reject them.
I can remember talking to old farts that told me, "If you can't race while driving a three on a tree; then you ain't nobody"
Before them the old men were probably goin' on about covered wagons vs. Model T Fords!
If you really really don't like the thing, then disable it.
If your just downing it cause you think a man should be able to race a car without all that fancy stuff, then you should go drag race your two horses in a covered wagon against any car on the market today.
And if that's the case, I wonder why you would even own a computer.
Besides it disables when you pull the hand brake and thats all that matters. Cause them poor minis don't have that luxury.
That type of traction control means if the wheels slip it cuts power to the engine. I found it useless during last winter. I had to turn it off since I could floor the car and the engine would just basically idle. Normal behavior is to get the car rocking back and forth to get unstuck not slow wheel spin.
Everette Price wrote:I can remember talking to old farts that told me, "If you can't race while driving a three on a tree; then you ain't nobody"
Before them the old men were probably goin' on about covered wagons vs. Model T Fords!
If your just downing it cause you think a man should be able to race a car without all that fancy stuff, then you should go drag race your two horses in a covered wagon against any car on the market today.
And if that's the case, I wonder why you would even own a computer.
Besides it disables when you pull the hand brake and thats all that matters. Cause them poor minis don't have that luxury.
I'm one of those "old farts" and I was racing three on the tree twenty years before you ever crawled into a car seat. I also have the ETS that has to be disabled to get out of my driveway when there is snow on the ground. I have a button to disable the traction control and I'm not afraid to use it. I know how to feather the throttle and don't need some computer to decide when my foot is too far into the pedal.
The old farts you're refering too never had covered wagons. We had all the muscle cars, the GTO's, Super Bees, Shelby Mustangs, 327 Novas, Vegas with whatever you could stuff under the hood. We were paying $.25 per gallon for gas and horse power was king. Tires were cheap, parts were plentiful and we had a blast. Not to mention loose drinking laws and plenty of anything you wanted.
Make fun if you must about the old farts. Too bad you weren't born then, there was lots of fun to be had.
im glad my car doesnt have that
ha ha suckers!!!!
OK IF YOURE LIKE ME AND YOU GOT AN AUTO TRANNY ,AND YOU HATE WHEN THE TRACTION CONTROL COMES ON WHEN YOURE TYRYING TO SLIDE AROUND A CORNER ,OR LEAVE YOUR BURN MARKS IN FRONT OF YOUR BUDDIES HOUSE. O.K. HERES A TIP: SLIDE THE SHIFTER INTO SECOND!!! THIS WILL DISENGAGE THE T.C.
THIS WILL GIVE YOU AN EASY 20 FOOTER.
TRY THIS AUTOTRANNY GUYS:
GO TO YOUR BUDDIES HOSE ANDCALL HIM ON THE CELL AND TELL HIM TO LOOK OUT THE FRONT WINDOW.WHILE WAITING FOR HIS HEAD TO POKE OUTBETWEEN THE BLINDS YOU PULL UP THE HAND BRAKE, DROP THE SHIFTER INTO FIRST AND WHEN HE SEES YOU...............HIT THE GAS AND DONT LET UP. WATCH THE RPMs DONT BREAK THE NEEDLE. AFTER YOU CAN SEE THE SMOKEAT YOUR WINDOW, GENTLY LET GO OF THE HAND BRAKE AND WATCH THE CLOUD IN THE REARVIEW, THAN GET THE HECK OUT OF THERE BEFORE THE NEIGHBORS CALL THE COPS. HANG UP THE PHONE SO YOUR FRIEND CAN TAKE PICTURES WITH THE CAMERA PHONE.
GO BACK AN HOUR LATER AND ASK "CAN YOUR FORD ESCORT CAN DO THAT????? LAUGH AT HIM AND GO DO IT AGAIN.
