I was wondering how many of you turn your traction control off? I find it a complete pain especially with the recent wet weather, mine has been coming on in 2nd gear at 40mph!

I always turn it off for fast starts but its getting on me tits!

So i turned it off !! Boy did it make for interesting driving. Had to change me pants.lol.

Four wheel drive is the only answer - lets hope the new RS will be.

Actually the real solution is to learn when it will kick in and avoid it (control your right-foot )

Unless you're on the track, you shouldn't normally have to get to the point where you get ASR kicking in I would have said

I totally agree, always turn it off now unless im taking my granny home on wednesdays

Its nice being in control, if the wheels spin its because you are making them not because some gadget should dial it out when you drive silly.

I have a confession to make though, i am slightly addicted to being able to spin the wheels at will as it was impossible in any other car i have driven. For example, last week i was driving into manchester and some chavs were wandering around in the road...i stopped to let them cross and they started hurling loads of abuse at me (called me a flash...., so at least they thought the car was nice!)...so i did a little burnout and left them a little toxic smoke present

Sorry i always go off topic.

Tiff Needell et al always turn off the traction control so we are in good company

Turn it off!

I have got into the habit of turning it off in snow it's a real pain lurching about all the time

It is recommened to turn it off in the snow anyway

In the snow is the only time I've had mine off. Might try turning it off in the dry now I'm more used to the car. Roll on summer...

I turn it off all the time. Its crap. Nuff said. Anyone who needs it needs to learn how to drive IMO. :P

I turn it off all the time. Its crap. Nuff said. Anyone who needs it needs to learn how to drive IMO. :P

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Learn to feed the power, and you will never need traction control

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Learn to feed the power' date=' and you will never need traction control[/quote']

So true - never have to switch mine off as it never interferes with my driving style

Chris

i have mine on all the time.... it great tho when its dry and you trun it off how much quicker the car is.... is the traction control doing things with the power even tho the light is not on??

Joel

i have mine on all the time.... it great tho when its dry and you trun it off how much quicker the car is.... is the traction control doing things with the power even tho the light is not on??

On my car, I believe it does. Not a night and day difference but noticable, it does seem perkier without it.

The main reason I like to turn it off though, is the 1st to 2nd gearchange can be a little jerky when really pressing on.

Never had the need to turn it off, you lot must drive about like eejits all day, I have never felt the need to turn it off, its not like we're all on a bloody racetrack everyday where you can turn it off and push the car to its limits and beyond. These are public roads we're talking about, and I reckon I'd rather be safe than sorry. I have enough fun with it turned on, so why turn it off and risk putting the car into a hedge? Most of the time I am driving on twisty, bootable country roads, which while fun are somewhat dangerous with the amount of blind corners and roughly laid tarmac about, so why risk misjudging a corner and not having any form of safety feature to back you up if it all goes pear shaped? Waiting for the 'Oi Grandad' replies...

Never had the need to turn it off, you lot must drive about like eejits all day, I have never felt the need to turn it off, its not like we're all on a bloody racetrack everyday where you can turn it off and push the car to its limits and beyond. These are public roads we're talking about, and I reckon I'd rather be safe than sorry. [b']I have enough fun with it turned on, so why turn it off and risk putting the car into a hedge?[/b]

Hehe.

Interesting question. Funnily enough, I nearly ended up in a hedge with it on once, because of it. It was wet, and I was pushing on through a corner, and the traction control kicked in what seemed to me to be a bit prematurely, and cut power - result: monumental understeer towards the kerb!!! If I had turned it off, I am sure I would have had more warning about this... rather than the car just unexpectedly cutting my power.

OK, I was driving fairly quickly, but nothing too mad, and I'd rather have a little wheelspin and be able to manage that myself than have an onboard computer do what it wants.

If it was a good system, perhaps I'd leave it on, but its not.

It was wet' date=' and I was pushing on through a corner, [/quote']

Four words for you - accident waiting to happen, hate to sound like a killjoy but sometimes its better just to take it that little bit easier, and leave the more aggresive driving for days when you can be more sure of the grip/roadholding ie. dry road, just my opinion, I know that when I'm out on a wet road the thing I always think about is the car crash I saw when I was younger, a women in a tigra had taken the first corner of some blind esses too fast in the rain, and had understeered over the other side of the road and ploughed headfirst into a parked sileage trailer. We drove past in a bus a couple of minutes later, all of us watched as a passing driver tended to the woman, who was eventually pronounced dead at the scene (it was on the local news later that night), windscreen had been smashed, blood all over the driver's side of the car, the towbar of the trailer had penetrated the front of the car right into the driver area. I haven't been able to get the image out of my head ever since, which is probably a good thing as it reminds me to take it easy.

Fair enough, I was just saying that in this case it was the traction control that caused a problem in this instance. Without it, the understeer would not have happenned, IMHO.

Understeer because of lifting off ?! This is a front-wheel drive, it won't understeer when you left off, if nothing else it would oversteer ?

yup, lift off oversteer, had a few times in my old cars and once in my octavia. if i want to launch or have fun in a wide are the esp goes off straight away but if driving fast then it stays on just in case

Never had the need to turn it off, you lot must drive about like eejits all day, I have never felt the need to turn it off, its not like we're all on a bloody racetrack everyday where you can turn it off and push the car to its limits and beyond. These are public roads we're talking about, and I reckon I'd rather be safe than sorry. I have enough fun with it turned on, so why turn it off and risk putting the car into a hedge? Most of the time I am driving on twisty, bootable country roads, which while fun are somewhat dangerous with the amount of blind corners and roughly laid tarmac about, so why risk misjudging a corner and not having any form of safety feature to back you up if it all goes pear shaped? Waiting for the 'Oi Grandad' replies...

Dare I say this but.....................hear hear

Never had the need to turn it off, you lot must drive about like eejits all day, I have never felt the need to turn it off, its not like we're all on a bloody racetrack everyday where you can turn it off and push the car to its limits and beyond. These are public roads we're talking about, and I reckon I'd rather be safe than sorry. I have enough fun with it turned on, so why turn it off and risk putting the car into a hedge? Most of the time I am driving on twisty, bootable country roads, which while fun are somewhat dangerous with the amount of blind corners and roughly laid tarmac about, so why risk misjudging a corner and not having any form of safety feature to back you up if it all goes pear shaped? Waiting for the 'Oi Grandad' replies...

Dare I say this but.........................

Edit: probably in breach of the rules

So it's fair to say, its a pain and comes on to early!

I still say a 4wd RS is the only answer.

On a different subject am considering a few more mods to take the beastie over 250bhp, not for off the mark reasons but more for on the motorway and mid-range. Anybody near that??