Advancetrac Sports Mode
04-27-2010, 07:35 AM
#11
2nd Gear Member
Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: Canada
Posts: 242
Boy, you know, I thought that post looked familiar, and about halfway through it, it dawned on me that that's what I typed! I was gonna be pissed 'til I saw the bottom lol. Haha I'm surprised it took me that long to figure it out.
Anyway yeah, you can't completely disable it unless you're stopped, have your foot on the brake, and hold the button down for 5+ seconds.
If you tap it once, you disable TC, and ESC stays fully on.
If you tap it twice, you put both TC and ESC in "sport mode", which relaxes its parameters quite a bit.
If you tap it three times, you're just playing with it.
Anyway yeah, you can't completely disable it unless you're stopped, have your foot on the brake, and hold the button down for 5+ seconds.
If you tap it once, you disable TC, and ESC stays fully on.
If you tap it twice, you put both TC and ESC in "sport mode", which relaxes its parameters quite a bit.
If you tap it three times, you're just playing with it.
Sorry for my daftness but, I thought this was only with track pack, not just with a premium, can you please clarrify this for me, I'd go try bit the wife has the stang this week while the Focus is in for repairs.
And thanks for your service, your gun is cool! (checked your link) Shot down any mortars lately?
04-27-2010, 08:27 AM
#13
3rd Gear Member
Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: Norfolk, VA
Posts: 627
Sorry for my daftness but, I thought this was only with track pack, not just with a premium, can you please clarrify this for me, I'd go try bit the wife has the stang this week while the Focus is in for repairs.
And thanks for your service, your gun is cool! (checked your link) Shot down any mortars lately?
And thanks for your service, your gun is cool! (checked your link) Shot down any mortars lately?
Thanks for your support. On the record, I can't give you details on any past engagements. Off the record, though...
04-27-2010, 11:18 AM
#16
3rd Gear Member
Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: Utah
Posts: 533
There is a difference between the premium and track pack Advancetrack Sport mode programming. But both have sport mode. For hole shot, drag style launches, I hold the button down for five seconds to turn all stability and traction control off.
12-26-2010, 11:44 AM
#19
1st Gear Member
Join Date: Feb 2009
Location: MA
Posts: 116
Electronic assists have always annoyed me because it would suddenly change how a vehicle behaves. Can anybody explain to me what level of control a driver has when these systems engage in a hypothetical situation?
12-26-2010, 02:18 PM
#20
6th Gear Member
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: state of confusion
Posts: 7,635
It will vary, but typically when the stability control gets too nervous about what you're doing it will cut throttle (or at least not let you add any), and it may activate one or more of the brakes (choosing whichever ones will reduce what it senses to be excessive understeer or much of any oversteer).
Under some conditions, that feels to the driver like somebody shot the car full of Novocain - numb is the word that comes to mind from my one experience with the Subaru's stability control (which Consumer Reports had claimed was relatively slow to react). The car will most probably behave benignly and won't normally do anything stupid, but it does take a few of the choices away from you.
I don't like electronics trying to do my thinking for me either. It may be very good at following its programming, but it has zero ability to look down the road before choosing a course of action.
Norm
Under some conditions, that feels to the driver like somebody shot the car full of Novocain - numb is the word that comes to mind from my one experience with the Subaru's stability control (which Consumer Reports had claimed was relatively slow to react). The car will most probably behave benignly and won't normally do anything stupid, but it does take a few of the choices away from you.
I don't like electronics trying to do my thinking for me either. It may be very good at following its programming, but it has zero ability to look down the road before choosing a course of action.
Norm