I have asr on my car as did my last car which was a VW. On the VW the asr light used to come of fairly regularly when the wheels start to loose grip.

Have had the octavia for a little while now, and not once has the asr light come on to say I am loosing grip, are octavias better at maintaining their grip or does the asr light not come on in the octavia when the wheels are loosing traction?

Thanks.

Tyres make quite a difference, the octavia (vrs) has an electronically limited diff as well, don't know if you're VW would have had that.

Anyway if there's a fault it would usually show up by the light staying on, is suggest you just deliberately wheels pin to check it if in doubt

Tyres make quite a difference, the octavia (vrs) has an electronically limited diff as well, don't know if you're VW would have had that.

Last car was a VW Bora tdi, and just had asr, with Michellin Pilot tyres, remaped to aprox 150 bhp Current car has dunlop fast response.

Anyway if there's a fault it would usually show up by the light staying on, is suggest you just deliberately wheels pin to check it if in doubt

I've tried to spin wheels but it does not seem to want to loose grip

Edited 7 December, 201213 yr by SKOD

I'd say your not trying hard enough mate. Lol. My vrs will spin up all the way up to fourth even in the dry. Also never heard of the mk1 vrs having and LSD fitted as standard?

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Well, you've got a firmer suspension which reduces weight transfer in roll, and a standard vRS only has the torque of a standard TDi110; I'd expect it to be giving away at least 50lbft to the Jetta.

Edited 7 December, 201213 yr by KenONeill

Last car produced 397nm of torque at 2000 rpm, present car 337nm of torque at 2400 rpm.

Last car weight was 1313kg, present car being 1425kg.

Could these figures effect why the last car would put its asr light on from as litte as 1500rpm if one was heavy footed with the right pedal ?

Tried again today to get the wheels to spin. First test was the accelerate hard in 2nd from 20 mph, car just took off and soon reached 50 mph and 4500 rpm.

Second test was to accelerate away hard from a slight up hill start in 1st again car just moved away quickly and lost no traction.

Could the Skoda asr be less aggressive than vw asr ?

Mine flashes away like a Christmas tree in this weather when 'pushing on'. As for versions...you think Skoda have their own? Its all VAG stuff, so basically the same.

Edited 7 December, 201213 yr by Liverpool-Lad

You'll know when it kicks in its quite obvious, you're defo not trying hard enough mate

I'd say your not trying hard enough mate. Lol. My vrs will spin up all the way up to fourth even in the dry. Also never heard of the mk1 vrs having and LSD fitted as standard?

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4th gear? What tyres are you on!

I drive hard lol. Drive it like you stole it!

Never managed to spin in more than 2nd! Tyres?

Kumho now. Autogrip when I bought the car lol.

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Autogrip! 4th gear wheelspin isnt good. Goodyears!

Mine flashes away like a Christmas tree in this weather when 'pushing on'. As for versions...you think Skoda have their own? Its all VAG stuff, so basically the same.

My old vw used do flash like a Christmas tree, by the octavia just doesn't want to show its asr light, so I've its not working or maybe it only shows for extra lead footed tdi drivers lol

I'd hope you'd be able to notice wheelspin even if the light wasn't flashing...

I'm also fairly sure the VRS does not have any form of limited slip diff. The traction control should stop one (or both) wheels spinning excessively but it's no substitute for a mechanical LSD.

I am also very doubtful that wheelspin in 4th gear in the dry is possible even on budget tyres.

Ahh, you have a diesel, maybe the power is more linear than a peaky remapped car.

It doesn't have a mechanical LSD but it does have a kind of limited diff action in the form of electronic diff lock (which is what I should have said lol)

See here - http://www.briskoda.net/forums/topic/182521-lsdelectronic-diff/

Ahh, you have a diesel, maybe the power is more linear than a peaky remapped car.

Not sure if power is more linear from looking at the unmapped graph see here http://www.superchips.co.uk/curves/vagpd130.pdf. My previous car was remapped see here. http://www.superchips.co.uk/curves/vagtd115.pdf Don't know if these graphs explain why my present car does not put its traction control light on or spin its wheels.

Bump from attachments in post no 19 does my present car have more linear power and torque?

Thanks

As long as it drives ok and exhibits no faults, hard to say.

Find out today in the snow and ice the traction control does work.

My ASR light has been going off pretty much constantly, try going flat out on a snowy patch, if you have any and you see it won't let you go anywhere.

I usually just keep ASR off. The way it just cuts all power sometimes is dangerous. Especially pulling out of junctions!

OEM's spend a lot of time tuning the ABS/TCS/ESP systems on different models of cars. I tune jags and land rovers and there's often quite a big variation in calibration between variants of the same vehicle depending on how sporty it's supposed to be, when interventions occur and how strong they need to be, so i'm not surprised you can feel the difference.

If you start playing with your engine maps, springs ARB's, dampers etc then if the calibration is quite tight you'll probably see all sorts of unusual false interventions, since that's not what the car was tuned on.

I'm surprised how loose the calibration is on my 110TDI, only really see it on snow