JDWalton

Same thing I was thinking. Try it with your TCS off, see if its the same. The TCS system is not great on our cars, you dont nessiscarly have to be slipping to have the TCS kick in.

Norm Peterson

I wonder if doing the throttle reset procedure would help at all. I can't see where it would hurt to try.


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alkemist

I'll try with the TCS off first and experiment, see what happens hehe.

JDWalton

just make sure your going straight when you do it. Wouldnt want to feel responsible if you flew off the highway....

alkemist

Ummm thanks lol

ski

My manual 05 GT never experiences any hesitation when I d/s before accelerating. I wonder if manually d/s an auto GT would be beneficial in this situation?

Blacksmoke

I noticed that when my car was stock besides wheel/tire switch.
It is the traction control on mine.
Push the TCS off... no more hesitation. I just think of it as a reminder that the TCS is keeping everything safe for the everyday driving. No big deal. If I want to let her loose I know that doing so means being aware of what turning the TCS off does.

I am putting in a CAI and tune from Brenspeed this weekend and I am sure it will probably just increase it because of the increase in power/torque.

alkemist

I mean, really, traction control should be a saftey feature only, why does the engine need to brake if I want to accelerate? Just sounds backwards, especially when there was no slip involved.

Gonna experiment anyways.. See what it feels like. Hopefully I won't go flying off the highway

Norm Peterson

Sorry, but it seems that you're well on the way to being brainwashed into believing that the responsibility for your safety is something that can be done for you. Everyday driving safety rests with you, not some electronic bits and a few thousand lines of software code.

TCS can help you under some conditions, but the flip side is that it won't get you around corners any better or stop you any quicker once you've got it going. And relying on it in your daily driving will ultimately let you get a bit sloppy as it covers for small driving errors on your part and gets in the way of you ever developing much "feel" for how much (or how little) traction exists.

I'm not picking on you personally, so don't take this as flame. It's just that I honestly feel that every driver needs to know how to drive their car(s) without intervention based on what somebody else thinks the car should be permitted or directed to do. TCS ALWAYS gets switched off in my Mustang, and as I drive my wife's brand-new car from time to time, its stability control will get shut off, too.


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alkemist

^ I have to agree with that. I learned to drive before all this electronic controls, even before ABS became standarized. I depended on my own skill and judgement to get from point A to B. I'm still not used to ABS and I only had it ever go off once in someone elses car.

That second of hesitation when I needed the power could of turned into a bad situation. I have the skill to drive to do the quick lane change, just the car nearly couldn't handle what I wanted it to do because Ford says so.