Traction control fun driving hurt my car?
 

I have a friend to told me that when I give the back end a little flick around a corner with traction control ON its hurting my car. I dont drive it hard but giving it a lil *** slide here and there is fun. Any input?

No, that is what it is made for. All it is doing is using the brakes to control wheel slip and limiting the throttle if needed. Nothing is being hurt. The only damage might come if you over use it, like driving poorly at the track during a 30 minute session, and it over heats your brakes. That wouldn't happen on the street however.

If you're having fun... turn it off. You can have more fun that way!

Besides, having it kick on and off while your screwing around is more likely to make the car more unpredictable.

If he doesn't understand the basics of traction control, he probably shouldn't turn it off.

I do not believe your friend.

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Agreed.

ya im not trying to slide into a wall or buy tires all the time.

How do you even get it to kick with VDC on????

Turn off VDC and practice feeling the rear tires lose traction. Do this in a safe area and not on the road until you have a good feel for it, or things will probably end badly.

Steering....a quick deek one direction followed by an aggressive turn in the opposite direction....slides the rear right out using the inertia of the car...not power from the rear wheels.

I had one good traction control save this past weekend. Up here with the colder weather the tires have little traction. I shifted midway through a left handed turn in a intersection and even with the traction control was sideways. It kicked back in harder that I would have imagined, worked awesome. Without it I would have been in a curb, it stays on for me.

I agree with both of these points. VDC cuts power to the wheels way to early and often for me to have any fun with it on. But definitely don't turn it off w/o practice - that's asking for trouble.

Yeah me too. I have a good feel for sliding the rear... in good conditions. I once was caught out by cold tires on a morning onramp, and ended up much more sideways than I planned. Kept in it tho, and scored major forza points :driving:

That is just asking for trouble brah. You just elimanted the only thing that is going to correct it, the throttle. Only thing that will come from this is snap oversteer doing that. You might as well just lock the e-brake up, not let go, and hold on tight, does the same thing.

There is a very popular and very true saying.

"You have to power through it."

Yes, probably in Bedford. :icon23:

I had some fun on a twisty road with VDC off in complete control...and the traction control kept cutting in? At least, I think it did because the light kept flashing when I gave the car a few slides around some hairpins. Either it was just indicating slip and allowing the LSD to work as intended and I was indeed carrying the car through those corners in total control, or it was cutting off power.

I don't have this issue when the road is straight, as the car will light the rears up all the way to redline on a cooler day when the tire temps aren't up.

No it does that. Mine does the same, even with VDC off it will still interfere occasionally.